Daily Features

Astrid S Tuminez is Vice-Dean (Research) of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

Since the start of the May-June rainy season Lindeners have been raising concerns about a number of environmental health issues.

Continued from last week Introduction Last week we sought to conclude our review of the financial statements of NCN for the three years from 2004 to 2006.

As part of my continuing assessment of the 2012 National Budget I attempted two tasks in last week’s column. 

We reprint the following article on Philip Moore by Dr Rupert Roopnaraine that was originally commissioned by Nicholas Laughlin and appeared in Caribbean Beat in 1996.

Suddenly I am seventy-nine years old.  I find that ridiculous but chronologically it is a fact. 

A US congressional proposal aimed at expelling Argentina’s populist-leftist government from the G-20 group of the world’s leading economies faces an uncertain future, not the least because it lacks significant support from unexpected quarters — conservative Cuban-American Republican lawmakers.

As a percentage of its resident population, the anglophone Caribbean has one of the world’s largest diasporas.

The Congo Pump is known as a pioneer or secondary species which means it is opportunistic and when large clearings are made in the forest it establishes itself and colonises.

(Continued from last week) A reader of this column called me and requested to know the difference between ‘nephritis’ and ‘nephrosis’ – terms, which she had seen in a medical book.

So guys, what do women think of your inappropriate workplace advances?

Another very brief sermon today.  I suspect that I might have even used the caption years ago and that I would have discussed, in layman’s terms, issues related to publishers’ priorities or prerogatives, editorial policy and the fact that, in the print media, bad news attract interest, attention  – and money Just a little more of the same today.

Installment One Hundred Thirty-Four This Ask the Consul installment addresses frequently asked questions regarding receiving United States Social Security benefits and voting while living abroad.

Quite a few Guyanese live extraordinary lives, with outstanding accomplishments and wide-ranging community impact, many on a global scale.

“Interest and objectives are two sides of the same coin. They are closely related, yet being able to differentiate one from the other can often make all the difference during negotiations.”

By Kala Ramnath and Suraiya Ismail Dr. Kala (Kay) Ramnath is a mother of two, autism advocate and member of the Board of The Step by Step Foundation.

By John Richards and Lakhram Bhagirat with photos by Anjuli Persaud and John Richards This week we asked the residents of Moraikobe village, Mahaicony Creek  to tell us what life is like in Moraikobe as well as what are some of the difficulties they face and how they think life in their village can be improved.

Photos by Cathy Richards Hururu Village is one of several communities in upper Berbice, Region 10.

Sunday’s Cartoon

Last week the people of Greece and France voted against austerity.