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It is no secret that governments around the world regularly practice their response to security threats.

A meeting was planned to accommodate consultations on the proposed Value-Added Tax (VAT) on private education.

Remember when Hollywood was obsessed with the Holy Bible? Probably not.

A sufficiently–prominent Guyanese personality provoked my poor-man senses when he claimed that there is now some new tax on dray-carts, meaning dray-cart drivers/owners.

The Tsimane or Chimane people are an isolated, indigenous tribe who maintain their tough, subsistence traditions in a remote area of Bolivia’s Amazonian lowlands, faithfully foraging and farming in small, rural settlements along the Maniqui River, like their ancient ancestors.

Part 1 Guyana is not a country with rapidly adjusting or flexible financial prices, such as a main stock market index or bond yields.

‘Reasonable comprehensive doctrines, religious or non-religious, may be introduced in public political discussion at any time … provided that in due course proper political reasons – and not reasons given solely by comprehensive doctrines – are presented that are sufficient to support whatever the comprehensive doctrines are said to support’ (John Rawls.

An interview with Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles earlier this week left me more hopeful than at any time in recent months that President Nicolás Maduro may not be able to maintain his de facto dictatorship indefinitely.

By Nancy Birdsall and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala LAGOS – The countries of Sub-Saharan Africa have reached a critical juncture.

Our last two articles dealt with the Integrity Commis-sion, its proposed amendment and revision of the Code of Conduct.

This week we asked the man/woman in the street about their plans for Easter and what  the holiday meant to them.

By Judith Wedderburn   Judith Wedderburn is a gender and development practitioner, formerly Director, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) in Jamaica, with experience in community development and leadership training around gender equality, gender-based violence, women’s empowerment and poverty.

Greetings to all on this Holiest of Christian Days. I intend to be briefly repetitive.

  The United States Embassy is happy to answer some frequently asked questions about the process of applying for student visas.

As the April sunshine blazed and the days grew drier, the boisterous north east trade winds swept in from the restless Atlantic and our schools closed with a sigh in a tired haze of dust.

Anyone concerned with the present perilous direction of climate change must hope that countries not only stick to the commitments they made under the UNFCCC 2015 process but if possible raise their ambitions. 

TOKYO — While visiting Japan and interviewing officials on the robotics revolution that is sweeping much of Asia, it became clearer than ever to me that President Donald Trump’s plans to bring back low-skilled manufacturing jobs to America are a political illusion.

This week, we asked the man/woman in the streets about Community Policing Groups in their communities and whether they would be a part of them.

By Gabrielle Hosein Gabrielle Jamela Hosein is a feminist, activist, poet and Director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, St.

The Kaieteur News carried the results of an interview with Engineer Charles Ceres who expressed the view that contractors executing shabby works should be prosecuted.