Daily Features

From in front, be clear: I love a lot of things about America.

Reputation   Last week, this column took the opportunity to examine the performance of Republic Bank during 2014.

In a few weeks’ time President Obama will make a one-day visit to Jamaica.

When Elisabeth Harper was announced as the PPP/C’s Prime Ministerial candidate recently the question many Guyanese asked was: “Who is she?”

When one thinks about it, the concept of ‘government’ is a strange one for it assumes as its fundamental premise that certain men and women – human beings like you and me – can and should be allowed to take upon themselves the right to direct the rest of us what to do, presumably for our own good.

The retina We promised last week that we’d discuss the retina in more detail.

In an article for my blog, www.conversationtree.gy, published in last week’s Sunday Stabroek, I took issue with a statement by former President Jagdeo that implied that Cheddi and Janet Jagan lived in luxury.

Back in 1972, when Fischer opposed Boris Spassky for the world championship chess title, the game was propelled to an extraordinary high, which no one had ever realistically witnessed.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s political troubles are growing by the day following a March 15 anti-government protest that drew much bigger crowds than expected — about 1.5 million people nationwide — and new corruption charges against key members of her ruling Workers Party.

(Continued from last week) For those of you who would like to use garden soil or compost, just add some clean white sand and mix same together.

Fish en Papillote is fish in parchment paper. It is a style of cooking fish.

On Elections Day, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will have a cohort of staff that must be present in every polling station to effectively and efficiently manage the conduct of the General and Regional Elections.

Hello you electors/voters. Perhaps I’m impertinent enough to dare to present a few pointers/discussion points with respect to elements of current voter-education initiatives now being contemplated, or implemented – But I do so never-the-less.

By Aquarius and Taurus – The Hecklers Hello Electors, Voters, Citizens from the Commonwealth who could vote here after only one year in our business, Jehovah Witnesses who don’t like Elections or Earthly Leaders and even all those Guyanese under eighteen, we are Aquarius and Taurus.

To increase the certainty of defeating the PPP/C, one has to shift the paradigm of elections and electioneering in Guyana.

It was reported last week that the government holding company National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) injected a further US$16 million into the Marriott project.

By Sherlina Nageer  Sherlina Nageer is a Guyanese feminist, activist, educator, and writer who pens a bi-weekly Friday column.

So far, we have carried two articles on the Administration’s efforts to access $3 billion from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) to accelerate its housing programme in an apparent attempt to secure a political advantage in the run-up to the national elections.

Interviews and photos by Rae Wiltshire With general and regional elections less than two months away and political campaigns picking up steam, this week we asked the man and woman in the street how they felt about the upcoming period.

Sheer size Republic Bank (Guyana) ended 2014 with net assets of $13.6 billion.