Daily Features

-His Excellency’s master-class – 2018-2020 As I indicated in my nostalgia piece two Fridays ago, I grew up in the city ward of Alberttown.

By Akola Thompson Given its powerful role in the political realm, the media has long been regarded as the fourth estate or the fourth branch of government.

I have been informed that this is the first time in Guyana’s post-independence electoral history – certainly the first time since the electoral reforms in the early 1990s – that elections have been called without the major parties having agreed upon the list of voters that is to be used on elections day or (even more concerning) agreed upon the process for arriving at such a list!

Sometime next month, Russia’s Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, is expected to travel to Cuba.

By Marina Silva BRASILIA – The Amazon rainforest will survive only if the will to preserve it is stronger than the desire to burn it down.

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

Disturbing stories are so common that often they are the focus for a day or two and then we wait for the next manifestation of the mental illness that permeates our society.

What drives someone to take their own life? This is a question that many have pondered as news of completed suicides reach them.

-Will we ever, ever enjoy `civilized’ electricity? So who are “PPP People” – mentioned in today’s lead caption?

Since the no-confidence motion (NCM) last December, the quarrel about what is and is not legal has been building in the public mind a healthy scepticism about the law.

By Ricardo Hausmann CAMBRIDGE – Is there such a thing as too much sanctity?

A few days ago, the Solomon Islands, Taiwan’s largest ally in the Pacific, recognised China.

By Esther Figueroa, Ph.D. Esther Figueroa, Ph.D. is an activist independent film maker, writer, linguist and educator who focuses on the environment, social justice, indigenous knowledges and local content.

Curse Defined as an expression of evil, misfortune or doom, many believe that curses are inexorable.

Once brimming with innovation and hopes of an economy bolstered by our own industries, the vibrant ambitions concerning our manufacturing sector seem to have long been shelved.

Elections: What’s to lose? Or gain?   -The Politics of Perks and Privilege   Though still a slight touch of poitics hereunder, I invite you-all to share some snap-shots of personalized nostalgia.

My “cha chi’s” childhood confidante from the community of Cane Grove made that finest of Indian milk sweets, the silky smooth “perah,” that she sold each Saturday, outside Stabroek Market.

Anyone closely associated with an ethnically divided society such as Guyana understands that because the saliency of ethnicity usually makes compromise difficult, much of the time is spent in or on the brink of political turmoil.

(This is the eighth of a series of articles by Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc on the Production Sharing Agreement signed between the Government of Guyana and Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil.)

Cruise tourism has become a big business, with the Caribbean now accounting for more than 35 per cent of all such vacations globally.