Daily Features

What the Dickens has come over me today?  Daring to be overtly political? 

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee penned a letter to the press underlining the ruling party’s pugilistic stance towards newspapers.

My last three articles focused on the need to radically reform the undemocratic/illiberal nature of the PPP, rooted as it is in old and misunderstood autocratic doctrines such as democratic centralism and vanguard party. 

Report on AGM The Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc (TIGI) has a new executive as a result of its first Annual General Meeting on 27 April, 2012 which saw the election of a new Board of Directors.

By Rory Fraser Rory Fraser is Professor of Forest Economics and Policy at Alabama A & M University.

Introduction On 15 February 2012, the National Assembly considered Financial Paper No.

This week we asked the public their views on the recently released results of the National Grade Six Assessment which showed that most of the top scoring students attended private schools rather than public schools and their suggestions to the relevant authorities. 

Story and photos by Lakhram Bhagirat Salem is a quiet village located on the eastern bank of the Essequibo River, approximately twenty-two miles from Vreed-en-Hoop.

Part 1                                      Foreword Owing to newspaper space constraints, last week’s column was not carried in full.

Part 2 Introduction The events of the past week have been significant and distracting.

I find it hard to understand why most people never, literally never, read poetry.

Today we begin a new series on gardening with hints for those who would like to develop a garden, or even just enjoy some potted plants around the house or on a patio.

Saimiri sciureus, the Common Squirrel Monkey is native to northern South America and can be found in French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Amazonian Brazil and Colombia.

Outgoing World Bank President Robert B Zoellick, who is being mentioned as a possible candidate for US Secretary of the Treasury or State if Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wins in the November elections, is trying to resurrect an ambitious idea: a hemispheric free trade area.

Recent developments in Europe and North America, involving Barclays Bank and others in the manipulation of Libor rates, are truly shocking.

I have lamented time and time again about how victims of domestic violence have nowhere to turn for protection in Guyana.

Dr C:  When music mattered more (?)       During the last fifteen years of my professional existence, there have been two or three Public Education Programmes which I was privileged and pleased to participate in but which still managed to cause me anguish.

Though we despair at the sorry state of our nation in these early years of the 21st century, we see quite a few voices of conscience striving to make a difference in this society.

Notwithstanding the present stagnation in the area of political reform, I believe that our political parties are on the cusp of major restructuring and that John Maynard Keynes was perhaps correct when he claimed that: “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood”, for even today, notions like “democratic centralism” and “party paramountcy,” rooted as they were in autocratic political cultures that are either dead or in their death throes, are still being used to explain contemporary issues.

By Yao Yang BEIJING – China has undoubtedly benefited from the world system created and supported by the United States.