Daily Features

The other day, a food-in friend was sharing with me the pleasures of eating Guyanese-style Aniseed Biscuits.

Today is to be among my briefest offerings. But hopefully, effectively terse and pointed.

Let’s assume that you are present on a regular basis in the same home as your child/children, grandchildren, niece, or other young female relative/s, that you are paying attention, and that you have enough of a relationship with them to be aware of the basics of their lives.

When Cheddi Jagan came to office in October 1992 he did a most unusual thing for the working people in the public service.

When I interviewed the 2015 Nobel Prize winner in economics Angus Deaton a few days ago, I asked him a simple question: “If you had to give one piece of advice to Latin American countries, what would it be?”

By Frank Birbalsingh   Frank Birbalsingh is Emeritus Professor of English at York University, Toronto, Canada.

It was recently drawn to my attention that I had made a mistake in a number of my articles when making reference to the Public Corporation Act of 1988 and that there was an amendment to the Act which I did not take into account.

Under the theme ‘Quality Education Leadership: Improving Schools from Within,’ Education Month 2015 was celebrated in Guyana in September.

Do you find, as I do, that as time passes you accommodate a vast sludge of useless information which remains stored in the brain for no purpose whatsoever?

Public Outcry Ever since it was discovered that the new administration had increased the salaries of its ministers and parliamentarians, there has been a public outcry and groundswell of criticism for taking the action.

Guyana’s most basic and fundamental economic statistics are its national accounts.

As the hype of making Georgetown a ‘green city’ continues, one can only watch speechlessly as the butchering of trees progresses.

Will innovative or new technologies become a threat to vested interests in the Caribbean?

As revealed by President Granger in his address to the National Assembly last Thursday, Venezuela has once again attempted to intimidate a foreign investor, the Guyana Goldfields.

“My citizenship is within me. I drank it with my mother’s milk.

Lesions (wounds) on the lips are fairly common in dogs and cats, especially playful puppies and kittens.

I couldn’t think of a name for this dish; it is something I made up as I went along cooking.

By Ronald Austin   Bonhomous, witty, intelligent George Stephen Camacho, who died shortly before his 70th birthday, was a Guyanese test cricketer and administrator who distinguished himself in the latter area of activity.

Sixteen years ago I “approached” a young lady living in a section of West Ruimveldt in the Georgetown Capital.

Today the Bar Association continues the discussion we began in our last column on presidential pardons, prompted by the granting of pardon by Presidential David Granger to some score of persons.