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Corruption – and Cabinet changes – Perception usually prevails Even as I’ll eschew classic definitions of the term, I felt an urge to offer my “three-cents” bit on the issue of corruption, so current at this time.

`The evolution of an education system in 19th century colonial British Guiana’…From the Dutch to British Compulsory Education Ordinance of 1876 By Tota C.

The Great Toilet Bowl Race Welcome, welcome to the smash hit reality show “The Great Toilet Bowl Race”.

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.

To Touch the Beating Heart of the World: Fred Case’s Homecoming Alissa Trotz is Director of Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto and editor of the weekly In the Diaspora Column.

Rap musicBy Sara Bharrat with photos by Jules Gibson This week we asked the man/woman in the street: Do you listen to rap music?

Guyana: Trade-in-goods only In last week’s column I had indicated that I would for the next couple of weeks be evaluating the Guyana Consultation on the Cariforum-EC, EPA held on September 5 and its aftermath.

A bigger threat than terror We have to look forward to a long and terrible age of increasing and fearsome devastation. 

The institutional arrangements in the EPA are of importance Tucked away towards the end of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that will be signed shortly between the Caribbean and Europe is a section that deals with what are known as the institutional arrangements.

A look at the Trinidad and Tobago Budget 2008-09 It was like a baptism of heat for new Minister of Finance Karen Nunez-Tesheira of the twin island state of Trinidad and Tobago as she presented the first budget of the re-elected Patrick Manning government and more personally, her first since her surprise appointment as the country’s first female Minister of Finance.

By Legal Analyst In her letter in Stabroek News of September 22, 2008, which responded to allegations of unconstitutional delay by the President in assenting to certain parliamentary bills, Minister Gail Teixeira makes, and repeats, an interesting observation.

One of the fond memories of my childhood involves my grandmother, who, I believe, was a woman way ahead of her time.

Hail Mary passes Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica.

Danger to swimmers! On Sunday September 7, 2008, a glorious Sunday, 23-year-old Gloria Nedd and her boyfriend, Royston Seecharan, went to the sea-shore between Pegasus and the jetty for a swim in the Atlantic.

Some plants can be propagated using leaf cuttings In the middle of September the nights get particularly cold in England, and further north in Scotland it is not unusual to experience the first frosts.

‘My life, my country’ There exists a slim, neat volume of some fifty pages, unobtrusive and unheralded, whose worth is several times more than its unassuming appearance and deserving of much more attention than it has ever been given. 

Distemper Here is another disease against which we can vaccinate, thus offering our dogs meaningful protection.

The hard burn of heartburn By Dr Ritesh Kohli, MD (Consultant Internal Medicine) What is GERD?

Giving – and making it known When charity benefits both I looked up the definition of “charity” in an old dictionary- (sorry for myself not being computer-wise) and nearly got into trouble.