Daily Features

The 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusilier Regiment, leaving in October 1965
The 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusilier Regiment, leaving in October 1965

British regiments in British Guiana

Radicals regarded it as their ritual duty to yell “Limey go home” on encountering British soldiers in British Guiana in October 1953, fifty-five years ago.

Pet Corner

Feline Viral Respiratory Disease Complex  aka Feline Influenza General comments Ailments associated with the respiratory tract are pretty common – and understandably so.

Consumer Concerns

We need to find a quick solution to the problem of the conditions in lock-ups, jails Did you read the article ‘Brickdam lock-ups unfit for humans, former detainee says’? 

 Sasenarine Persaud

Arts On Sunday

Personal odyssey Among the most recent new books of poetry is In a Boston Night  poems  by Guyanese poet and fiction writer Sasenarine Persaud, published by TSAR in Canada in 2008. 

Mrs Ingrid Donna Daphnee Waithe-Peters

‘It’s not the end of the world’

Blind arts teacher a beacon of hope to others visually impaired “Being blind does not mean that it’s the end of the world, neither does it mean that a blind person cannot achieve his or her fullest potential,” says Mrs Ingrid Donna Daphnee Waithe-Peters.

A Gardener’s Diary

Bougainvilleas and ixoras love hot,dry weather For quite a few weeks the weather has been blisteringly hot, and no one should be surprised that their bougainvilleas are flowering prolifically.

The race for the White House

The dayworld and the nightworld So it’s here at last, ‘the most important election in our lifetime,’ after a gruelling campaign from which, however, few could look away for long, since moment after moment seemed filled with such significance, both for the US and the world.

History This Week

The beginnings of rice cultivation in Guyana (Part 1)By Winston McGowanThis article has been prompted by a recent Government Information Agency (GINA) press release which stated that next month a Rice Festival will be hosted at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence.

Big green jobs machine

Ban Ki-moon is Secretary-General of the United Nations. By Ban Ki-moon NEW YORK – Amid the pressures of the global financial crisis, some ask how we can afford to tackle climate change.

In the Diaspora

Walter Rodney, October 1968 and the Caribbean Quest for Self Expression and Self Emancipation (This is one of a series of fortnightly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean)By David Hinds October 16 marked the 40th anniversary of the so-called Rodney riots that accompanied the banning from Jamaica of Walter Rodney, the eminent historian, scholar, thinker and revolutionary.

Business Page

Curbing corruption: The Corruption Perception IndexConclusion Introduction Today we conclude this three-part article arising out of the publication of the 2008 Corruption Perception Index of Transparency International which ranked Guyana at a lowly 126 out of a total of 180 countries surveyed, with a score of 2.6 out of 10.

Guyana and the wider world

EPA, sign or else: Exploding the myth of a partnership of equalsPredictably, the opening act of the increasingly sordid saga of the African Caribbean Pacific group (ACP) – European Commission (EC) – EPAs has come to a tawdry conclusion with two recent developments in relation to the Cariforum-EC, EPA.

Consumer Concerns

Bolts from the blue On Saturday October 18, two new bills hit consumers like bolts from the blue. 

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