On 29 November 2014, the Government announced a five per cent increase in the wages and salaries for public servants earning in excess of $50,000 per month and an eight per cent increase for those earning less than $50,000, retroactive to 1 January 2014.
Interviews and photos by Kenesha Fraser The Education Ministry began implementing the Secondary Competency Certificate Programme (SCCP) in 16 more schools from September.
Reading a Gallup Poll about the happiest countries on earth, I couldn’t help being surprised by the fact that nine out of the 10 happiest countries — led by Paraguay — turned out to be in Latin America.
So much begins with parents. So much continues in the training grounds.
The notion in 1950 by the leaders of the PPP that freedom will bring justice has not materialized.
The news that all citizens of St Kitts-Nevis wishing to travel to Canada will from now on require a visa, and that subsequently the St Kitts government announced it is to recall a number of passports, ought to cause pause for thought across the region about economically valuable, but reputationally risky, citizenship-by-investment schemes.
Araucaria excels, commonly called Norfolk Island Pine or just Christmas Tree originated from Norfolk Island in the South Pacific which is an Australian territory off the coast of Australia.
There are two crucial issues which remain to be tackled in this series on inequality and poverty in contemporary Guyana.
Continued from last week After having spent some time last week discussing canine chronology and positing that the ‘7 human years = 1 dog year’ opinion should not be taken as gospel, let us now have a more serious look at the physical and psychological (behavioural) changes in the elderly dog as well as those things that influence his wellbeing and longevity.
Rose Hall town’s Kriskal Persaud, a former national junior and senior chess champion, looks tentatively at the chess board in his first game of the Umada Cup.
New Governor The appointment of a new Governor of the Bank of Guyana would be major financial news in many parts of the world if Guyana was a major world economy.
Generally speaking, the way we present our food here in the Caribbean does not come as a 3-course meal; rather it is served in 2 courses – the main/entrée (which would also include a variety of side dishes and what in other cuisines would be referred to as appetizers).
“When the people began to display their young vigour, Carter turned his attention to nurturing the forces of the radiant future.”
When the late President Hoyte facilitated the return of a relatively free Press – the Stabroek News and the freeing up of the importation of newsprint – and the re-importation of flour and other banned or restricted consumer items, legacies of the rigid Burnham policies, most of the country could breathe again and demonstrated gratitude to Hugh Dessie.
Introduction: Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic, A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance For Change (AFC) to submit a weekly column on governance and related matters.
Cary Fraser is a Guyanese historian of international relations who teaches in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Penn State University, USA.
“Questioned on if he would seek to advocate the punishment of those who committed alleged wrongdoings during the PPP elected period, an animated Granger… said ‘Of course!
By Martin FeldsteinMartin Feldstein, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and President Emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research, chaired President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984.
By Charlene Wilkinson Ms. Wilkinson is currently a lecturer in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies at the University of Guyana. Her
World AIDS Day is being observed today internationally under the theme ‘Closing the Gap’.
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