As I was casually browsing the many booths with information and goods from the various women’s organisations at the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) Conference in Istanbul, Turkey last week, I spotted some T-shirts that grabbed my attention.
Was it not two/three Fridays ago I sought to provoke thought on the issue of whether trade unions are still relevant in the Guyanese society of today?
Q: What can the US Embassy do for a US citizen in trouble with the law in Guyana?
Our nation searches for the kind of leadership that lifts us, that causes us to delve deep into our character and believe in building our society, community by community, village by village.
What took place in Linden over the proposed increase in the electricity rates for the community is truly astonishing.
Hot Momma’s Advice: Having a parent’s assurance can make all the difference to a child who is hard of hearing or deaf.
Part 11 By Janette Bulkan Janette Bulkan is a Social Anthropologist who was Coordinator of the Amerindian Research Unit, University of Guyana from 1985 to 1999 and Senior Social Scientist at the Iwokrama International Centre from 2000 to 2003.
This week we asked the delegates at the 13th Annual Caribbean Tourism Organization Conference their thoughts on the presentations.
My last two Sunday columns elaborated on the proposal for a Budget Office to be established in the National Assembly (NABO).
The economic role played by creative industries significantly exceeds anything previously imagined, according to a recent report produced by the Geneva based World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
Demerara Distillers Limited, a conglomerate group comprising several local and overseas companies with manufacturing, trading, banking and trust relationships in Guyana, the region, North America and Europe as well as a joint venture in India and associated companies in Guyana and Jamaica, will be holding its annual general meeting this coming Friday, April 27.
Again this year the Link Show was a huge popular success.
Whether she intended it or not, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s decision to nationalize Argentina’s biggest oil company earlier this week has placed her nation in the camp of Latin America’s radical populist countries — alongside Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua — in the eyes of the world.
Soft Wallaba or Wallaba is a canopy tree and seems to have a preference for extreme soil types – from very hydromorphic soils to dry soils.
Continued from last week This disease affects puppies of the large, rapidly growing breeds, especially those three to seven months of age.
Picture this: the world’s brightest women on economics coming together with thousands of women’s rights advocates from around the world to address the global economic situation as it applies to the female half of the world’s population.
Look, I do feel enough seems to have been written on everything by the dozens of columnists and commentators already.
Words we speak, write and design shape this land, our social space.
Two weeks ago I said that for us to grow into a “normal” political society we should consider putting in place three transitional measures.
By Janette Bulkan Janette Bulkan is a Social Anthro-pologist who was Coordinator of the Amerindian Research Unit, University of Guyana from 1985 to 1999 and Senior Social Scientist at the Iwokrama International Centre from 2000 to 2003.
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