Daily Features

Forty-five years ago: Were these proposals for power sharing or what?

Importance of Having Valid Travel Documents Installment Eighty-Five Q: What documents are required for Guyanese nationals to travel to the U.S.?

– Václav Havel is former president of the Czech Republic. by Vaclav Havel PRAGUE – One of the fundamental pillars of Europe’s political architecture is a strong and enduring belief in the universal validity of equal, universal, and inalienable human rights.

Interviews and photos by Shabna Ullah This week we asked persons what their favourite programmes on television are and how many hours of television they watched per day?

The Struggle for the Amazon: A Struggle for Us All This week’s column has tremendous relevance for us in Guyana, for it is about the Amazonian rainforests increasingly being seen as a resource to be exploited, and about the potentially devastating implications for Amerindian communities, the Amazon’s original caretakers, and for us all if the forests are threatened.

By Dave Martin In the course of clearing some of my personal items from Customs recently, and inevitably with some time to wait (as the Trinis say, “you know how that go padna”), I ended up in an interesting conversation with a soft-spoken but very intense young man from Amerijet who was despairing about our music industry and the lack of opportunity and progression for local performers, particularly in comparison to the vibrant music scene in Trinidad, Jamaica and Barbados. 

Guyana and the Wider World by Clive Thomas E-mail address cythomas@guyana.net.gy

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Ian on Sunday Experience comes to us not just through our lives but as much, perhaps more as we grow old, through reading.

Ear ailments (Conclusion)  Deafness An animal can be born deaf (congenital deafness) or it could acquire the deafness during the course of its life.

Is growth limitless? From time to time, leaders from the financial services industry are invited by a well known intermediary to brief prime ministers and key ministers from the Caribbean. 

When it comes to colonial governors, many are reviled and few are admired.

The silent majority Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica.

A player to watchWendell Meusa, a 21-year-old Guyanese who has been living in Barbados for ten years, and who recently returned to Guyana, gave an impressive display of chess talent during last Sunday’s one day rapid tournament that was held at the YMCA.

Cut down your Acalyphas on a tree-year cycle It is my experience living in the quiet backwater of New Providence that a few yards can make a whole lot of difference in terms of weather.

Labelling and the cigarette industry The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) will be hosting a public consultation on “Specification for the labelling of retail packages of tobacco products” on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 from 8:30h to 12:00h at Hotel Tower, Main Street, Georgetown, where a decision will be made on the new and improved Guyana standards for the packaging and labelling of tobacco products in Guyana.

– Mira Kamdar is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and a fellow at the Asia Society.

Enforcement and prosecution   The Hustle, the “Runnings” It was just six months ago that I wrote about an issue I described as the “Enforce-ment hustle”.

Rudy Rabbinge is a Dutch agriculture expert who until 2007 was a member of the Dutch Senate.