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Yet another man in a high position is accused of violence against a woman.

Oh  me. What am I doing, eight days before Christmas Day, exploring the post-election day goings on still?

 Installment One Hundred Twenty-Three The Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in Georgetown welcomes applications to visit the United States. 

Living in this country could be such a beautiful experience. The natural environment of breezy warmth, the sunny weather bathed in lush tropical rains, the leafy greenery and fertile land – these offer a lifestyle of tranquil beauty, of a quietude of the soul.

I believe that we have reached the point where people were shot in the street for their involvement in the most basic of their human and constitutional rights, namely to protest peacefully, largely because the conceptual and operational process established by the Guyana Elections Commission to present the results of the 2011 national and regional elections was deeply flawed.

Hot Momma’s advice:  Health impacts education in more ways than one!

On the anniversary of Martin Carter’s death, and the 60th anniversary of the publication of To A Dead Slave and The Hill of Fire Glows Red, Gemma Robinson reminds us of the global reach of Carter’s work and its influence on writers and musicians.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora column. Barbadian writer George Lamming has written compellingly of the limits of Westminster style democracy in the Caribbean, a system he sees as reducing the populace “to the dormant and abused status of electoral fodder [where] every five years, they become visible and decisive in a tribal power game which concludes with their absence from any serious consultation about their future.”

This week we asked the man and woman in the street about their voting experience on November 28 at their respective polling stations and their views on the results of general and regional elections.

Hague is a small West Coast Demerara village located about 12km away from Vreed-en-Hoop.

Introduction December 9 was an important day for Guyana. For the first time since 2003 when the United Nations designated the day as International Anti-Corruption Day to raise awareness about corruption as an international and domestic agenda issue, the day was marked with a public activity – a seminar – in which the Government of Guyana took part.

Contrary to what most headlines suggested, and to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s claim that it’s the most important thing to have happened in Latin America in the past 100 years, the new group of 33 Latin American and Caribbean states created at a Dec 3 summit in Venezuela will hardly make it into history books.

Our historians have missed a great deal by placing too much emphasis on the role-play of parties, and political and social factors in writing the pre and post-independence history of our nation. 

Introduction Last week’s column indicated that, during the coming weeks, I would be assessing the present state of the global crisis, which began in 2008. 

The UK Treasury’s failure to reform Britain’s Air Passenger Duty (APD) leaves the Caribbean’s relations with the United Kingdom in a difficult place. After

Anyone who writes about life must think about death. It is not being morbid to do so.

Mexico gave us the Aztecs, the delicious tacos and very large hats.

Continued from last week Paralysis Usually parlayses are associated with problems of the spinal cord.

The feminist movement heydays were long over before I even knew I needed to stand up for my own rights.

A President by Lottery? | I’ve persuaded myself to make this two–cents contribution to the 2011 post – elections era as it is unfolding.