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Interviews by Dreylan Johnson with photos by Keno George The sod has been turned and the rebuilding of the Umana Yana has been set for completion by the end of the first quarter next year.

In today’s column I shall start addressing the very last topic left in this extended series of discussions on the United Nations (UN) Post-2015 Development Agenda Summit and its related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Decree On May 26, 2015, the Government of Venezuela issued Decree 1787 which purported to annexe the territorial waters of Guyana off of Guyana’s Essequibo coast.

It was talked about frequently during the years I lived in the Cayman Islands, but it hasn’t happened yet.

(Continuation) Before we went off on that interesting track of the dog’s mega-sense of smell, we had discussed a bit of the anatomy of that structure called the nose.

I have been looking at a great deal of cricket lately from across the world: Test cricket ‒ the Ashes, India versus Sri Lanka ‒ and ODIs and Twenty/20 cricket from all over.

“I am not unhappy with the US position,” said Vice President and Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge, speaking about the US position on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy (iNews July 14).

Ever since I have realized that I can remove the salt from salt fish without boiling it, I always have a little container of the stuff in the fridge – to cook with vegetables, ground provisions, rice, potatoes or just on its own.

During the dutiful protest action to heighten awareness of the persisting, obnoxious Venezuelan claim to Guyana’s territory on Tuesday outside the United Nations in Manhattan, a Guyanese participant expressed the view that President David Granger had in essence checkmated his Venezuelan counterpart following their meeting with the UN Secretary-General.

In a matter of days the European Commission will launch a communication (policy paper) on the options for post-Cotonou arrangements with the ACP, the grouping that brings together 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific nations.

Thirty-nine-year-old Mmiettenna Knights can remember the day as if it were yesterday, when she received the shocking news that her reputed husband, a miner had been killed in the backdam in Region Seven; and she still has several questions as to what really transpired on May 8.

It is estimated that there are approximately 3 trillion trees throughout the world!

In this their seventh Conversation, artists Stanley Greaves AA and Akima McPherson examine Roaland Taylor’s sculpture, Shaman and His Medicine, completed in 2004.

Escapist-like, today I veer away from all those current issues of national significance, which too often tend to be stressful, provocative or controversial.

There are a lot of ‘invisible’ people in our society – people who, for one reason or another, don’t get the same level of attention as others.

NASSAU, (Reuters) – Powerful Hurricane Joaquin, which battered the Bahamas with torrential rain, powerful winds and storm surges today is now seen as less likely to pose a major threat to the U.S.

What President Granger recently referred to as the “extraordinary and abnormal” presence of Venezuelan troops on Guyana’s border and the Venezuelan government’s flagrant incursions into Guyana’s territory with maritime presence in the Cuyuni river, when added to Venezuela’s decades’ long harassment, which has stymied Guyana and particularly the Essequibo region’s development, are clear indicators of the level of intimidation our larger neighbour is prepared to reach in pursuit of its spurious territorial claim.

ZURICH,(Reuters) – Trinidadian Jack Warner, once one of the most powerful men in world soccer, has been banned from all football-related activities for life, the ethics committee of the global governing body FIFA said today.

The Obama administration, Pope Francis, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and the presidents of Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela and many other countries enthusiastically applauded Colombia’s preliminary agreement with FARC guerrillas to end the five-decade-old armed conflict that has caused more than 220,000 deaths.

By Justice for Walter Rodney Campaign, London, England   While Walter Rodney’s assassination in 1980 remains Guyana’s most traumatic political murder in living memory, Guyanese can cite several others which shocked the nation, paralysed its progress, and which are still awaiting proper formal investigation.