Daily Features

Photos by Anjuli Persaud Overlooking the Soesdyke-Linden Highway is a village called Long Creek which is home to about 400 persons who maintain a simple lifestyle because of the hardships they face.

(Conclusion) Introduction Today’s column concludes my review of the strengthening of economic relations between Guyana and China.

It is understandable that newsmen look for sensational stories since these are what sell newspapers and make the names of correspondents.

President Barack Obama’s campaign ad slamming Gov Mitt Romney for allegedly heading companies that “were pioneers in outsourcing US jobs to low-wage countries,” and claiming that “President Obama believes in insourcing” is unfair, hypocritical and dangerously deceptive.

Part 4 In this week’s column I begin consideration of the third grouping of challenges and threats facing near to medium-term macroeconomic stability in Guyana. 

Recent Caricom Heads of Government meetings have recorded concern about one or another aspect of the relationship between the UK and its overseas territories.

Pax Britannica is a well known term which means ‘the British Peace’ and it is used to describe one of the proud periods of British history when Great Britain experienced a lengthy era of peace and power. 

(Continued) Today, we’ll look at a very special method of breeding animals with the hope of capitalizing on specific assets of related parents. 

Today’s plant, the Madagascar jasmine, has a botanical name, Stephanotis, which is Greek.

Greenheart is found only in Guyana and is one of the most important timber species.

I had intended to write about Jackie Hanover’s great new song this week.

I shall return to this my lead subject from time to time.

Given the serious challenges facing this nation in this second decade of the 21st century, we must focus on one major goal to transform how the next generation lives.

The question I want to consider here is what can be done to improve internal democracy in the political parties in Guyana?

– Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya Jagdish Bhagwati is Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Professor of Economics and Law at Columbia University.

Background The re-trial and subsequent acquittal of Mr Basdeo Panday has been in the news recently.

By Anastasia Deonarinesingh Anastasia Deonarinesingh is a Trinidadian student, graduating from the University of Toronto this year with a Bachelor of Science in Physics, Caribbean Studies and Mathematics. 

Schools’ out youths are at home. Stabroek News asked young people at Linden about their plans for this holiday season.

Introduction Public procurement is perhaps the single most important activity of the State, consuming the greatest portion of expenditure.

Introduction No free chow mein. That was my first thought as I tried to interpret the words of Minister of Public Works and Communications Robeson Benn in relation to the airport expansion project that “we [meaning the government] had to enter into an agreement because we had a very narrow window in September where a Chinese Vice Premier came to the Caribbean with several billion dollars to fund projects and it was the only opportunity we had then to fund this undertaking.”