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Sukree Boodram
Sukree Boodram

New organization aims to educate

victims of domestic violence on how to speak out, where to go for help Victims of domestic violence are expected to receive much needed assistance following the formation of an organisation which aims to educate them on how to speak out on the issue by conducting “empowerment sessions.”

Vermilion Flycatcher (Photo by G Watkins)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Photo by G Watkins)

Vermilion Flycatcher

The Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) is tiny but aptly named and can be seen sitting and marking its territory in open savannah areas of the North Rupununi.

Personal thoughts on the Soca

Even though many persons behind the promotional scene and the production of the music are matured, very adult individuals, many of us past sixty/seventy cannot keep up with today’s version of soca – once dubbed Soul Calypso.

Immigrant Visa Questions II

Installment One Hundred Twenty-Eight This edition of Ask the Consul continues from Installment 127 to address additional questions that applicants ask concerning permanent migration to the United States.

‘We need reforms to sustain the present consensus regime’

On January 14, Mr Khemraj Ramjattan made a presentation in Trinidad and Tobago to the Congress of the People (COP) convention entitled “The Relevance of Third Parties in race based politics: Case of Guyana”, which, to me, was more telling in what it did not say rather than what it did.

Bottlebrush

Small trees

For those who like trees in their immediate environment, but whose backyards are too small to accommodate a spreading saman because it would uproot the house, ehow has one or two suggestions.

Yellow Banded Poison Dart Frog (Photo by G Watkins)

Yellow Banded Poison Dart Frog

The Yellow Banded Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates leucomelas) is the largest of the Dendrobatid frogs and has been seen in the Burro Burro river of Surama and the Clarence Mountain Trail in Aranaputa.

Literacy powers all development

I do not think the new, young, intelligent and opened-minded Minister of Education will mind me delivering little, well-meant lectures to her from time to time.

President Rafael Correa of Ecuador

Not a smart move

Bogota, Colombia— The US State Department wasn’t terribly smart when it rejected a demand by Latin American populist leaders that Cuba be invited to an April 14 summit of President Barack Obama with 33 hemispheric leaders in Colombia.

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