Daily Features

By Bernard-Henri Lévy Bernard-Henri Lévy is one of the founders of the “Nouveaux Philosophes” (New Philosop-hers) movement.

By Wade Shepard   Wade Shepard is the author of Ghost Cities of China — a book which chronicles the two and a half years he spent researching the country’s urbanization movement.

With just about a week to the May 11, 2015 General and Regional Elections, the Guyana Elections Commission would like to urge all registered electors to vote for the party of your choice on Elections Day.

I am not surprising myself today – my penultimate piece before our May 11 D-Day-when I am finding it challenging to write on something different and relevant at this time.

By Taurus – The Heckler    VULGARIANS UNITE! VULGARIANS GET LOST!

After former president Bharrat Jagdeo launched his extremist ethnic salvoes at Babu John, I had occasion to predict in this column that worse was yet to come.

The PPP has just unveiled its manifesto, days before the election, while the main opposition alliance is yet to do same.

“Corruption is a phenomenon the prevention, investigation and prosecution of which need to be approached on numerous levels, using specific knowledge and skills from a variety of fields (law, finance, economics, accounting, civil engineers, etc.”

By Dr Arif Bulkan   Arif Bulkan lectures in the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies     Under Guyana’s laws, Minister of Health Bheri Ramsaran’s attack on Sherlina Nageer at the Whim Magistrate’s Court, which included telling her to ‘F- off’, calling her a “little piece of shit” and threatening to have her stripped, qualifies as harassment if it occurred in the context of persons who are associated with each other.

This is the third article in a four-part series on the above subject.

This week on What the People Say we asked persons to comment on whether they would be voting at the May 11 elections and if the campaigns are addressing their issues.

When in the early 1990s it became apparent that Europe’s preferential regimes for Caribbean bananas and sugar were coming to an end, an impassioned debate began about a transition to other forms of economic activity.

The rapidity of strong chess tournaments have increased recently and it is becoming difficult to give coverage to all of them.

  Anyone up for some savoury dumplings? You know, there are times when one can take too many liberties with food.

Last week, we discussed problems associated with the third eyelid (the nictitating membrane).

After a series of corruption scandals, Mexico has created a government-backed National Anti-Corruption System that—to my surprise—is getting good reviews from some leading independent anti-graft groups.

Introduction Today’s column concludes my examination of project failures and weaknesses revealed in public investment management in Guyana during the 2000s.

Right now, bulbs and tubers plants are popping up in the most amazing colours.

The OAS Observer Mission, the British High Commissioner, the United States Representative and the Private Sector Commission have all publicly raised concerns about the dangers of inflammatory language being used in the election campaign in Guyana.

When I was a schoolboy we had a games-master named Mr.