Daily Features

There is no denying that improving your health can take a bit of effort, organization, planning and dedication.

The Turquoise Tanager is mainly dark blue, with turquoise edging to the longest wing feathers and a yellowish lower underparts.

Each January, around this time, the modest town of Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands comes alive, bustling with the finest chess players on the planet.

As promised, I am sharing with you a recipe to make a chutney using the boiled and softened sorrel after it would have been cooked to extract the juice to make last week’s Sorrel Liqueur.

Remember, celebrate, act Observing a minute of silence in commemoration of the birthday of the late civil rights leader Reverend Dr.

Lawns are affected in a big way whenever we have heavy rainfall and flooding.

Security guards are people who deserve the utmost respect. It is a profession that many of us would never venture into either because of the pay, the shifts or because our qualifications and/or interests lead us in a different direction.

Stamp Out Corruption at Municipality – Green By Larry Jaskaran PRIME MINISTER Hamilton Green this week dealt with corrupt practises, constancy and priorities at the City Council when he delivered the main address at the conference of em­ployees of the Muni­cipality of George­town.

I’m signing up to be a (dubious) fan of Finance Minister Jordan.

Fire Equipment Below Efficiency – Loncke THERE ARE fourteen operational fire-fighting vehicles in Guyana, accord­ing to Chief Fire Officer Mr.

A slim, greenish brown band in a layer of clay clearly separates two key geologic eras all over the world, showing abnormally high microscopic concentrations of iridium, a rare dense, brittle element that best resists corrosion and bears a beautiful silvery burnish.

PPP denies receiving KGB funds THE opposition PPP is denying claims by the PNC that it had been funded by the former Soviet KGB while in power in the early 1960s and is challeng­ing the ruling party to prove “its false allega­tion”.

City Location Would Boost Business The Small Businessman MARK MARS, 27, has been in the elec­tronics business for six years now.

Temptation to pay little attention to the inscrutability of the governing political elite in its dealings with the selection of a new chairperson for the Guyana Elections Commission gave way to concern as I came to realise that the situation may be somewhat more complicated and possibly detrimental to the body politic.

A little-noticed paragraph in the recent US intelligence community report about Russia’s hacking of the US elections makes me wonder whether Moscow’s next step will be to conduct cyber-espionage campaigns to help elect authoritarian populist leaders in Germany and France’s elections this year, and in Mexico’s 2018 elections.

Deputy Mayor Warns Of Noise Nuisance Danger To City THE noise nuis­ance in and around the city, described by Deputy Mayor, Herbert Harper, as an annoyance, is to get the ‘Number Two Citizen’s’ spec­ial attention.

By United States Ambassador Perry L. Holloway This year’s holiday honouring Dr.

By The Caribbean Voice The Caribbean Voice is a New York-based NGO that has been involved in social activism since its launch in 1998.

Last week, we reflected on the state of cricket in the 1970s when, weather permitting, we could have watched some 26 games being played in Georgetown on a weekend among the four levels of cricket.

Spare Engine For TU154M Coming From Cuba (By Bert Wilkinson) JOLTED by a re­cent top manage­ment shake-up and problems with its only jet aircraft, the State-owned Guy­ana Airways has said that it is moving to have its TU-154M aircraft back in ser­vice at the end of the week or early in the next.