Daily Features

By Jayathma Wickramanayake NEW YORK – When I was a bright-eyed eighth grader in my native Sri Lanka, I couldn’t wait for my first sex education class.

Last month the Group of Seven (G7) most advanced economies failed to reach a consensus on the major challenges the world faces.

Felician Medino Abraham is from Moruca. He produced a study on the impact of school education on Indigenous people using ethnography in South Rupununi.

The Amazon rainforests provide 20 percent of the planet’s oxygen and is home to an estimated one million indigenous people from some 500 tribes as well as three million species of plants and animals.

Recently alarms have been sounded about the Amazon burning. It is estimated that there have been over eighty thousand fires in Brazil this year and most are taking place in the Amazon as a result of deforestation.

Introduction Two weeks ago in Toronto, Canada, the organisation Caribbean Council of the Americas (CCA) in a public advertisement invited the Guyanese community and “other interested parties in the greater Toronto area to learn about all and gas exploration and development in Guyana.”

The year is 2019. We are drowning in our own pollution; the ice sheets are melting at unexpectedly rapid rates and one of the world’s most important ecosystems is dangerously close to major damage.

Good-Life’ oil-money vouchers? Hello friends. Hi “electorate”- those of you eligible to and will probably vote.

With over 30 albums and a range of songs, the energetic Guyanese-born chutney artiste, Terry Gajraj continues to tour and produce, more than two decades after his biggest hit.

No interpretation of the constitution or any law should support the holding of general elections in a democratic society until the major participants are satisfied that the quality of the electoral list will allow for free and fair elections.

By Robert Skidelsky LONDON – Recently I watched The Man Who Was Too Free, a moving documentary about the Russian dissident politician Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down in front of the Kremlin in 2015.

Vidyaratha Kissoon lives in Guyana. This article is an edited version of his blogpost that appeared on August 19: https://churchroadman.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-dignified-life-in-guyana-respecting.html

Rain forests are quite justifiably described as ‘the lungs of the earth’.

It has been 47 years since the Caribbean Festival of the Arts (Carifesta) was first hosted in Guyana.

Part 74 Introduction A couple of weeks ago, Column 73 examined a statement by Dr.

That B.A.M.N. PNC Victory! Sophia, Capoey, Greenheart and Papcaan! De-emphasising politics and other national headaches today, I return, however briefly, to that modern day social phenomenon that both intrigues and irritates me.

Once referred to as “white gold,” sugar has been facing some tough times lately.

As a child, I heard vivid stories from my father about his fearless mother, a flashing firecracker, who thumped contrite men, foolish enough to interfere with her family and livelihood.

After some of  60 years of ethnic jostling, 45 years of de facto division into separate states, and 30 years of  efforts at finding a solution, the United Nations representative to the 30th anniversary bicommunal meeting of the parties on the 21st June 2019 stated that hope still remains alive for the establishment of a bi-communal  federation for it still is viewed as the ‘most acceptable solution’ across the two communities of Cyprus (https://in-cyprus.com/hope-still-remains-alive-un-diplomat-tells-conference-on-bicommunal-party-meetings/)!

By Shahra Razavi NEW YORK – Political economy has come a long way.