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Nomination Day, One Rohee, Ten Returning Officers I had to succumb?

Today’s column returns to the issue of Local Content Policy (LCP) which appears either to have been drowned out by the excitement of First Oil or in which interest seems to have ebbed – a pattern since the Local Content was first raised in the aftermath of the disclosure of the signing of the 2016 Petroleum Agreement.

Currently, global food and water supplies are precariously perched on the brink of disaster. 

The U.S. Embassy’s Consular Section processes nonimmigrant visa applications on a year-round basis.

One of the most important elements of a properly functioning democratic state is regular personnel turnover, so when a political leader tells you, as Mr.

By Elizabeth Drew WASHINGTON, DC – The recent tense, dangerous exchanges between the United States and Iran have revealed a great deal about US President Donald Trump’s management of his foreign policy.

By R M Austin Basil Butcher, the Guyanese and West Indian cricketer, died at the age of eighty-six  on the 16th December, 2019.

For your Election Campaign consideration – the third edition of this Season’s goings-on as groups of individuals – sometimes described as “politicians” – compete robustly to be elected to govern and manage our national – and personal – affairs for five years.

Last year will certainly go down as one of the most challenging years for democracy and the rule of law in Guyana.

On Thursday the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo proposed a new approach to the political crisis that continues to grip Venezuela.

I have never obsessively compared myself to other women. Since my teenage years, I have never been interested in conforming to the accepted beauty standards.

-Changing Guyana? Concerning businessman Badal Hello there. Although I consider myself largely “retired” and “tired” my past significant brushes with “PNC politics” have left a residual urge to share comments from my armchair/recliner, relevant to you know what.

Throughout my childhood and well into my teenage years, I was a frequent victim of the horrors of corporal punishment.

During one of his parliamentary budget presentations, then minister responsible for local government, Harripersaud Nokta, gave a list of what the PPP/C intended to accomplish in the sector over the coming year.

By Peter Singer MELBOURNE – On January 3, the United States assassinated Qassem Suleimani, a top Iranian military commander, while he was leaving Baghdad International Airport in a car with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi leader of Kata’ib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia.

In the slow news period between Christmas and the new year, the Financial Times published a chart that graphically illustrated how the global trade in goods has changed since 2000.

Hello there Guyanese citizens, including all of you under-18 years of age, but especially those over – 18.

Last week, we took a break from the local setting to give coverage to recent developments in trade between the United States, Mexico and Canada.

By Angelique V. Nixon Angelique V. Nixon is a Bahamas-born, Trinidad-based writer, artist, and scholar-activist.

In our youth most of us are eager to grow older.