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The decision by the current regime to substantially raise its own salaries has been a disaster that I believe will follow it far into the future.

Previous Development Watch columns made the point that the heavy handed and non-transparent manner in which the PPP went about governance often magnified the perceptions of corruption.

I don’t know who is going to be elected president of the United States in 2016, but I can tell you this: he or she will be much more hawkish than President Barack Obama.

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.

Corruption is an insidious plague that has a wide range of corrosive effects on society.

This week we asked the man and woman in the street for their views on the controversial 50% increase for some ministers in the APNU+AFC coalition government.

Introduction Last week’s column wrapped-up the series of nine successive contributions arguing for the adoption by Guyana and Caricom, of the United Nations (UN) Post-2015 Development Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as their long-term planning and policy frameworks.

Early concerns The early concerns that the Guyana economy has slowed down and that the growth for 2015 would at best be sluggish remain valid even after a round of salary increases.

Recent returnees to the homeland may not know this, but longtime dwellers who have endured through successive Guyanese governments will tell you that finding the person responsible for a particular aspect in the various departments set up to serve us is an almost impossible task.

Today we begin a new chapter of canine maladies, viz, those which are associated with the oral cavity.

Kishaunna King was a high-school dropout with no sense of direction.

There are several green sauces that are used as condiments and can sometimes double as marinades.

A little over a week ago the British parliamentarian, Sir Eric Pickles – a cabinet member until May of this year and a former Chairman of the Conservative Party – told the London Guardian that the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, was determined to have the BVI and the Cayman Islands adopt public registers of beneficial ownership either “through legislation, guidance or naked pressure”.

Many companies in Japan have a special room for their employees which is called, in free translation from the Japanese, a “letting off steam and bile” room.

Allamanda prefers a rich soil and plenty of water during the hot/dry days.

Neither pace nor spin could contain the eruption over the salary increases by ministers of the government, to themselves.

Water is life. That is the slogan of the Guyana Water Inc, and a truer slogan there never has been.

The virtually-premature ministerial salary increase generosity aside, I share my thoughts on issues of authority, power, humility in fair-minded service and political personality changes.

The United States Embassy is pleased to announce two initiatives to make renewing and applying for a visa easier and more efficient for children under 14.

When a government deliberately refuses to listen to the voice of its people it had better be on solid ground, e.g.