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When the calendar flips to December, many of us normally get bombarded with invitations to Christmas parties, end of year drinks, get-togethers and other festive gatherings.

Welcome to In Good Taste’s Christmas table, which serves up an appetizer, an entrée, a dessert and an adult drink.

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now.

Thuja Arborvitae commonly called Evergreen Christmas Trees originated in North America and Eastern Asia.

Govt Denies Housing  Programme in Shambles BY SHARIEF KHAN GOVERNMENT last week denied its housing programme was “a rather dismal picture” and claimed it has a “well-conceptualised and organised plan.”

Since its return in 2011 the National Drama Festival has helped to develop and expose the talent of many young people.

Schools Still Plagued By Text Book Shortage A SENIOR education official says the Ministry of Education is hard put to resolve the critical textbook problem in most of the country’s 385 primary and 57 secondary schools.

Page One Comment THE U.S. military invasion of Panama is unjustifiable.

-SARU, SARA, SOCU: 2015-2017 Hey and hello all. I hope to be relatively light-hearted dealing with three (3) serious issues as many (most?)

Editors agree to avoid invasion of privacy THE editors of the Mir­ror, Stabroek News, Chronicle and Catholic Standard met this week to consider a complaint by the Mirror that a recent Chronicle report on the suicide of the wife of a prominent politician was insensitive and un­professional in that it referred to an unnamed illness from which she believed she suffered giving rise to an innuen­do that she had a fatal contagious disease and thus smearing herself and her family.

My Auntie Daro’s black Christmas cake was heavy, smoky and heavenly.

Another Regent St fire HEAVY rains throughout yesterday hampered the probe into the cause of an early morning fire which razed the concrete and wooden complex at the corner of Regent and Camp streets after midnight Mon­day.

The Christmas season has traditionally been a time when we try to universalize our good fortune by ensuring that those less fortunate than ourselves, and particularly the elderly, are able to partake in the festivities and merriment.

By Nina L Khrushcheva MOSCOW – Donald Trump’s transition from US President-elect to taking power recalls nothing so much as a forgotten Hollywood genre: the paranoid melodrama.

The results of the new international PISA tests of 15-year-old students should be ringing alarm bells throughout Latin America: they show that 63 per cent of Latin American students lack basic skills in math, and in some countries that figure is as high as 91 per cent.

Left to right Roy Heath, England-based Guyanese writer who won the Guyana Prize for the Best Book of Fiction, with his novel work ‘The Shadow Bride’, Mr Martin Carter acclaimed Guyanese poet who won the Guyana Prize for the Best Book of Poetry with his ‘Selected Poems’ and Canada-based Guyanese writer Brian Chan who won the Guyana Prize for the Best First Book of Poetry for his ‘Thief with Leaf’ seen sitting together at the presentation ceremony at the National Cultural Centre Monday night.

In our article of 5 December 2016, we had indicated that we would discuss the Report of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the country’s accounts for the years 2010-2011.

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

“HE has done his work and done it faithfully and well.

Shondell Peters, University Student: ‘I don’t really have any plans for Christmas because I’m at the university and I have exams until Wednesday.