Daily Features

In this week’s edition of In Search Of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at the forgotten scoreboard of the 1975 Shell Shield Match between Trinidad & Tobago and the Combined Islands.

The headline above is not really the name of this dish; it is more representative of the number of steps involved in preparing the dish.

Passengers disembarking the ferry from Essequibo at the Parika Stelling on Sunday.

By Satyendra Persaud MBBS DM (Urol) FCCS Registrar, Department of Urology San Fernando General Hospital, Trinidad and Tobago We have already noted that there are several ways in which we can treat prostate cancer confined to the prostate.

“Cuss wheh ya guh, nah wheh yuh come from.” That is a saying I grew up hearing.

 -‘It was always illegal’ Two small up-front points: I’m glad I actually purchased a Guyana Times this past Sunday (I’m not too much a regular); secondly, what follows is as much a testimony to my fascination with other people’s Indianness in Guyana, as it is a brief nano-summary of my continually-delayed enlightenment on the issue, the phenomenon, the complex matrix of (a) people’s origins, history, culture, religion, ethnicity and generational lifelong bond.

– and Regrets by Alfen Any full-blooded, fair-minded citizen of this Green Land who has made it past fifty-five or sixty-five would have to concede that Guyana has never been allowed to realise its full, powerful “potential” since 1953 to 1964 and 1964 through ’66, ’70, ’80 and 1992 to today.

There has been much comment on the proclivity of the present regime and its associates to name and rename various national objects and institutions, and this article has been prompted by the dispute over its wish to rename Ogle International Airport and the possibility that the City Council might give rise to more controversy if it still has on its agenda the renaming of 100 city streets for our Jubilee celebrations.

This evening at 5:30 PM in the Education Lecture Theatre, University of Guyana, the African Studies Research Group of the Department of Language and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Education and Humanities, will recognize the work of Dr.

Last week’s article completes our discussion on the conservation and management of our forest resources and the procedures in place for the protection of our environment.

As the acting principal of the Government Technical Institute (GTI) Renita Crandon-Duncan faces two major challenges: she is young and she is a woman.

Global demand The world is bombarded with claims of free trade and its virtues. 

I do not get the impression that the governance of the world is good or that it is getting better.

John Gladstone, the owner of Plantation Vreed-en-Hoop, was regarded as a prime mover for indentureship.

Resolute action Between Earth Day 2016 and Earth Day 2017, 55 national instruments of ratification will have to be submitted to the Paris Agreement before it comes into operation.

In Havana on April 28, the Dominican Republic and Cuba agreed to explore the possibility of a partial scope trade agreement.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour fuses fact with fiction to compose a diary of wicketkeeper Cyril Christiani’s participation in the 1935 Series against England.

By Nigel Westmaas   How the Poor Live “…There has been a good deal said on all sides, but personally I sympathise with all the laboring sections in the colony and my organisation as well as myself feel not alone for the sections we approached the Chamber of Commerce on behalf but also for the much underpaid clerks, who as well toil faithfully and hard for their meagre stipends, and are exposed to the same cruel, vicious nefarious and highly immoral profiteering system existing.

Volume 1: The Foundation (Hansib Publications Limited, 2015) by Clem Seecharran A review by Winston Mc Gowan   This book is the first of a three-volume history of cricket in Guyana from 1865 to 1966.

If you are looking for something special to make for breakfast on this Mother’s Day morning or for afternoon tea, these cheddar-scallion biscuits would be ideal.