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Listening to people voice their concerns across this country shows voters want urgent action on three fronts: rampant State corruption, pervasive organized crime, and promised Constitutional reform.

When a small but meaningful number of Indian voters chose to cast their votes for the Alliance For Change and others not to vote at all rather than vote for the PPP/C, they made what I previously conceived as a possibility and referred to as an opening up of “a mammoth possibility for national renewal.”

The result of the general elections was announced by the Guyana Elections Commission on Thursday and saw PPP/C Presidential candidate Donald Ramotar being sworn in as president of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana on Saturday.

It happens all the time in small, closely-knit groups – cabinets, party executives, boards of directors, sports associations, church congregations or club committees.

Approximately 15 years ago yesterday, a young man from Berbice arrived at Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Retrospect When I was first invited by the then Editor-in-Chief David de Caires about a decade ago to write a regular Sunday column for the Stabroek News, which would focus on locating  Guyana’s situation  in the context of regional and international developments, I readily agreed to undertake this task. 

Introduction At a time when the National Insurance Scheme is experiencing the results of more than two decades of bad governance it has just dished out some $600 million to buy the CLICO building on Camp Street.

By Tom Naughton Mercer County Community College New Jersey Terry Ferreira grew up working at his family’s bicycle shop in New Amsterdam, near his country’s psychiatric hospital.

In sharp contrast to the gloom surrounding US and European economic news, a new United Nations report has good news for Latin America; it says that poverty levels in the region have dropped to their lowest levels in 20 years, and will continue falling in 2012.

Easter Monday, 7am, March 24, 1913 the residents of Georgetown were awakened to the rhythmic purr of a flying machine overhead, as George Schmitt took off from the Bel Air Park (Canon race course field) in a historic five-minute flight – the first ever in British Guiana.

Solving one problem in the garden always seems to lead to another one, for our hobby is a never-ending one – joy, sorrow, frustration or anger.

For practical reasons, we can equate coma with unconsciousness. Some scientists speak instead of a very depressed level of consciousness, since they argue that there is never a complete state of unconsciousness.

With the present Eurozone on the point of collapse, the world’s developed economies on the brink of a second recession, and a slowing in advanced developing economies such as China and Brazil, the prospects for near term growth in the Caribbean appear bleak.

“It is clear that these people think women are not thinkers, we are only relegated to certain labour jobs and to bring all the mammy elements.

Port Kaituma bustles with taxis shuttling people to and from the small airport, a hyper-busy commercial centre crammed with pickup trucks, SUVs, cars and ATVs, and boats traversing the calm, brown Barima and Kaituma rivers.

This article was written to clarify my own views of some of the pitfalls and possibilities that may result from the 2011 elections, given my orientation towards shared governance.

There are so many things that can cause stress for children today.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs   NEW YORK – A famous claim in economics is that the cost of services (such as health care and education) tends to increase relative to the cost of goods (such as food, oil, and machinery).

Photos and interviews by Abigail Semple and Frances Abraham Denita Wills– Public Sector: `At the moment, I’m just preparing in terms of cleaning.

“This community future hinge on three things – water, light and roads,” says Vanessa O’Donoghue, a resident of the small community of Barnwell on the East Bank of Demerara.