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Sorrel came into season early this year and I have made good use of it.

As the year winds down to find us surrounded by daily news of mankind apparently going downhill, both at home and abroad, one can easily begin to harbour feelings of despair.

Guyana was born a broken nation forty-six ago. We gained Independence in a state of emergency – proclaimed during the bloody 165-day strike by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union, the trade union partner of the People’s Progressive Party.

– And their funding comes from? I had touched upon my lead subject a few columns back, writing during a vacation abroad.

Last week’s column showed how similar our constitution is to that of the United States of America when it comes to the power relations between the institutions that we call “supreme organs of democratic power” (in my view this phrase is nothing but archaic socialist hyperbole).

By Anton L. Allahar   Anton Allahar is a Trinidadian who lives in Canada. 

Last week, we discussed the 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index which rated Guyana at 124 out of 175 countries surveyed with a score of 30 out of 100, the lowest in the Caribbean, except for Haiti.

Interviews and photos by  Rae Wiltshire Last week, while the city’s municipal markets were shuttered for two days as a result of a strike by City Council workers over a pay hike, we spoke to several vendors to find out how they were being affected by the closure.

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  So many Christmas poems from which to choose. E U Fanthrope’s lines:   And this was the moment When a few farm workers and three Members of an obscure Persian sect

A constitution defines the basic laws, structures for governance and rights and responsibilities under which a society is organized.

While President Barack Obama’s announcement Wednesday that he will normalize relations with Cuba is the biggest diplomatic breakthrough with the island after six decades of hostilities, his speech may have been less “historic” than he portrayed it, according to numerous US congressional sources and Cuba experts.

This week’s column concludes the discussion of inequality and poverty in Guyana.

The mains for most holiday meals come in the form of a large piece of meat that has been baked/roasted.

“This is the final chess column to run in The New York Times” – Statement carried in the NYT on October 11, 2014 at the conclusion of an article by chess columnist, Dylan Loeb McClain.

As you read this, the festive season and the New Year are just around the proverbial corner.

(Continued from last week) Last week I received the most marvellous marble and velvet red Poinsettias plants along with several Christmas cards with beautiful red poinsettias covering the front.

On December 16, something quite extraordinary happened. President Obama and President Castro spoke on the phone for nearly an hour.

– Americans against Christmas? With a mere five days to the December twenty-fifth date chosen by some long-time Christian (?)

The cause of the political crisis in Guyana today is the determination of the executive to dominate the legislative branch of government.