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An admixture of our unique political context and nearly two decades of autocratic PPP/C rule have given rise to notions of how we should conduct political discourse that appear to me neither practical nor complete.

Recently the Stabroek News (Feb 28, 2016) reported President Granger saying: “I have no interest in having an unprofessional Public Service… I also said that I did not just want an efficient public service but an ‘unbribable’ public service; professional people, people who can do their trade and people who are prepared to do their jobs without fear or favour.”

Joan French, who is from Jamaica, has long been involved in activism for women’s socio-cultural and political progress.

This week on What the People Say we asked members of the public to comment on the Local Government Elections and any other issues affecting them.

In the last week or so, the report of the Commission of Inquiry into the death of world-renowned historian and scholar, Dr.

Forest definition As pointed out last week, today’s column starts an assessment of Guyana’s non-mineral extractive sector.

Dangerous driving While restricting minibuses to what in effect are regional routes results in a differentiated market, it does not necessarily result in a differentiated service.

A friend of mine was away in the South Rupununi for a couple weeks, doing some work and checking on some family, and was telling me about his travels – he was all over the map.

There are four major issues relating directly and indirectly to corruption facing Guyana at the present time.

I was reading the magazine Planet the other day and came across an article in it by the Welsh poet and playwright Damian Gorman which made an impression on me.

(Continued) Bad breath Let us turn today to a problem which I had promised to address some time ago – bad breath (halitosis) in dogs, and the supposed cures associated with this problem.

If you read the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post or some of the world’s other heavyweight newspapers, you may have seen in recent months, articles discussing the abolition of currency.

This week we begin a fortnightly series called ‘Urology and You’ by Satyendra Persaud MBBS DM (Urol) of the Department of Urology, San Fernando General Hospital, Trinidad and Tobago.

The Green-backed Trogon inhabits dry and humid forests and can often be found near forest edges where it eats fruit and sometimes insects.

As much as we may like certain ingredients, buy and cook them regularly, there are times when we seek to have them in different ways.

Having added to debunking the myth that strength training would suddenly morph women into bulky, manly beings, my thoughts naturally turned to the quality of training.

The 2016 World Chess Championship title match would be held in New York.

A few Sunday ago, workers from the M&CC trimmed the historical Silk Cotton Tree at the Archer’s Senior Citizens’ Home on D’Urban Street.

In their continuing series, Artists Stanley Greaves AA and Akima McPherson examine Cyril Kanhai’s Green Land of Guyana. 

Mature women ‘cussing out’ in the street, using expletives of the most colourful kind.