Daily Features

The eyes of the desperate are often sad and pleading and if one stares into them long enough, empathy is evoked.

Urgent Need for Life jackets PASSENGERS making the Parika-Supenaam river crossing in motor boats, have accused operators of endangering their lives because of overloading, lack of life jackets and reckless sailing.

New Skipper Full Of Confidence… We’ll Retain Championship JERRY ANGUS was born at Belladrum on the West Coast of Berbice on May 12, 1960 and although he may have harboured dreams of making it to the top, he could have never guessed that he would have done so in this manner.

– 24 years not out today!! One of my New Year’s prognostications about probable Granger Cabinet changes came through swiftly, (though we were “assured” such would not have occurred.)

American journalist Steve Coll describes an illuminating exchange in 2001 between then President George Walker Bush and the Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Mayor plans shopping mall for Bourda Green CITY Mayor Compton Young says he plans to set up a two-storey shopping mall on Bourda Green, which will in­clude a bank, cinema and two restaurants.

‘Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.

Conditions worsen at UG UNIVERSITY of Guyana Vice-Chancel­lor Dr. George Walcott said yesterday the in­stitution has been forc­ed to use its own money to speed-up re­habilitation work on the campus, following delays in the Inter-American Development Bank rehabilitation pro­gramme.

Bicycles May Arrive From February TWENTY thousand ladies and gents bicycles are expected here within the next five months, providing relief for Guyana’s existing transportation difficulties.

Aziz Choudry Aziz Choudry is associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, Montreal, and visiting professor at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation in the University of Johannesburg’s Faculty of Education.

By Dreylan Johnson and David Papannah This week we asked the man/woman in the street their views on tattoos in the workplace and the military.

Guyana devalues $ Greenidge Presents A Ten-To-One Is Murder Budget By SHARIEF KHAN FINANCE Minister Mr.

It is incumbent on the DPP to engage the services of special prosecutors whose knowledge, skills and reputation can match those who represent the interest of the accused.

Travelling along the Corentyne highway, you could miss Wellington Park, which is considered the smallest village on the Corentyne or maybe even in the entire Berbice, with its 12 houses and population of less than 50 persons.

Today’s column attempts to draw lessons from global experiences with Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs), operating in the oil and natural gas sector.

Noticeable pleasure Some 17 years ago, ExxonMobil and Guyana signed an agreement for the former to explore for oil in the territorial waters of Guyana. 

It is no longer in the natural order of things to tell the truth in public affairs.

The Guyana Chronicle’s obscene calumny against Chancellor of the Judiciary Carl Singh, over several months and getting worse, its contempt of court and the government’s intimidation of the judiciary have become deeply troubling.

Maybe as I get older, I have less patience.  But there is no maybe about the fact that I don’t have much tolerance for rhetoric. 

One of the few issues about which the new President of the United States has been consistent, is his approach towards Mexico.