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Our nation stands as the only Cooperative Republic in the world.

Notwithstanding all the opposition talk of seeking to create a new political culture in Guyana, its recent antics are as old as the hills, but the PPP/C is not without fault and should not use the opposition’s faux pas to prevent us from moving forward in a timely and efficacious manner.

Dominique Moisi is the author of The Geopolitics of Emotion. By Dominique Moisi PARIS – Is democratic time too slow to respond to crises, and too short to plan for the long term?

This week we asked new parliamentarians how they felt after their first session and what are their expectations for the life of the 10th parliament.

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.

With a population of around 2000 people of different racial backgrounds, the community of Blankenburg is found on the West Coast of Demerara some 12 km west of the capital city.

I wish I could convey, in particular to young people, whose mental appetites seem whetted so easily these days by the transient and the trashy – I wish I could communicate the quiet depths, the delights, the leaping excitements of great poetry.

Comment Co-incidences are rarely easy to explain. At the time of launching an award for the best Annual Report by any Guyanese company as one of the activities and initiatives for its 25th anniversary observed last year, this column carried a review of the financial statements of the two operating companies of the Banks DIH group: Banks DIH Limited (‘Banks’), the food and beverage giant, Citizens Bank Limited (‘Citizens’), a 51% owned retail bank and Caribanks Shipping Company Ltd, a dormant company.

Part I Introduction Beginning last December 4, 2011 my Sunday columns have been re-visiting the global economic and financial crisis that erupted four years ago in light of two basic considerations.

In a week’s time Caribbean Market Place, the Caribbean Hotels and Tourism Association’s (CHTA) premier annual business event will take place in Nassau.

Republican hopeful Mitt Romney will have two big problems if, as expected, he clinches the Republican nomination for the November election: his business background and Hispanic voters.

Today we begin a new theme. Bones and muscles (the musculosketal system) are so interlinked that we have decided to treat their ailments together.

The hibiscus is a large shrub native to Asia and the Pacific islands.

Rain forests are rich in biodiversity and are home to many different plants and animals as well as indigenous communities.

Lately, I have been reading about men around the world who are taking some dramatic steps to fight for women’s rights.

I was thrown into a minor dilemma as I was preparing this piece much earlier in the week.

Fresh ideas and innovative thinking create the kind of foundation for progress to happen.

On occasions, the US Embassy may request that immigrant visa applicants and their petitioning family members undergo a DNA test to prove a biological relationship.

The current discourse about the election of a speaker for our new National Assembly has been variously described and assessed but here I will discuss the opportunity it presents us to identify and contemplate some important issues, the nature of which are likely to stay with us as we go forward in the present political context.

Frank Birbalsingh is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at York University in Toronto, where he taught for over thirty years.