Daily Features

Important next steps At this stage I alert readers to two tasks which remain to be tackled before I wrap up this discussion of the medium term macroeconomic outlook.

All politicians lie, or sometimes play games with the truth, but the Presidents of Bolivia and Ecuador were so off the mark when they asked the Organization of American States to effectively kill its Human Rights Commission that one can only wonder whether they were being ignorant or blatant liars.

When I was young I played a little cricket. Indeed, one of my most precious memories, a memory now more that sixty years old, is of playing for my school third eleven on a rough pitch up at Mount St Benedict in Trinidad and taking five wickets in one eight-ball over with some slow cunning off-breaks which did not turn – they were an early incarnation of the doosra.

African marigold (Tagetes erecta) is the tallest marigold of the group, which includes Scotch, French and triploid.

By Nigel Westmaas This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

Continued from last week Disorders of the bladder In the lower urinary tract, there are four basic problems, often interrelated. 

In the rainforest

I attended a meeting earlier this year that included a good number of women who are devoted activists and advocates for Guyana’s female population.

I’ve been persuaded to participate in introducing to the wider Guyana, a new Non-Government Organisation (NGO).

Installment One Hundred Thirty-Five This Ask the Consul installment addresses frequently asked questions regarding Non-Immigrant Visas.

By the year 2020, our current primary school kids would be young adults and the new working generation.

If they were unaware of it before, the recent hoopla about the cuts that were made to the 2012 budget by the opposition has certainly enlightened the citizenry as to the limitations on the role of the National Assembly in the budget process.

Introduction Notwithstanding the caption of this article, the first part in last week’s Business Page dealt not with the Hand-in-Hand Trust Corporation Inc (HIHT/the company) but with Winston Brassington and his brother who Winston boasted had saved HIHT from the fate of Clico.

This week we asked the residents of Enmore about issues in their community that are affecting them.

By Kevin De Silva and Mark Chatarpal Kevin De Silva is a fourth year student at the University of Toronto.

Introduction I intended to start today a two-part column on the recent disclosures on Hand-in-Hand Trust Corporation Inc.

Agony and debt In last week’s column I sought to direct readers’ attention to the debt stress that is engaging our economy and the distress this portends.

Certain words are beloved of bureaucrats: words like monitor, check, regulate, review, classify, and control.

In March 1980 David Renwick, the Trinidadian journalist, and I wrote an extended feature for the Caribbean Chronicle about the future outlook for the Caribbean as an oil producing region.

If presumptive Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s first major speech to a Hispanic audience in this campaign was an indication of his strategy to win over Latino voters, he is in big trouble.