Daily Features

The Commissioner General (CG) of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is again in the news.

Introduction   This week I complete my presentation of Piketty’s recent paradigm- shifting contribution to the study of income and wealth inequality (Capital in the 21st Century), which I had introduced last week.

Types of investment   There are generally two types of investment: direct investment and portfolio investment.

So much begins with parents. Their daily, persevering, unending love and interest and example teach lessons which reach deep into us; we are nurtured and our minds and souls are formed into shapes and disciplines that last all our lives.

Six years ago, within weeks of my return to live in Guyana, I was in conversation with a very well-known Guyanese – someone I admired but had never met – and he suddenly said to me, “Dave, what are you doing coming back to live in this godforsaken country?”

Guyana has hit world headlines several times in its modern history.

So, today as promised, we embark upon a theme which is not so traumatic as the last series of articles dealing with pet euthanasia.

On December 8, the fifth Cuba-Caricom summit will take place In Havana.

Guyanese chess players are being given an opportunity to oppose some leading chess nations of the Caribbean owing to the hosting of the Umada Cup chess tournament locally.

Forget about the Deepwater Horizon. If Nicaragua’s $50 billion transoceanic canal scheduled to start construction on December 22 becomes a reality, it could be the world’s biggest environmental disaster in recent memory.

You are getting two recipes out of this one dish. For the other part of the dish, you will need to cook some plain rice – regular white, parboiled or brown rice, just as long as it is cooked plain.

Cycas revoluta commonly called Sago Palm originated from Japan in the Far East.

Again, I leave the reasons for and consequences of the Prorogation; the visible manifestations of unprofessional ineptitude with respect to vital infrastructure and the issue of how our young ladies dress to the more knowledgeable, the more “analytical”.

I have been lucky thus far in my life; I’ve never experienced any sexual violence.

On the day of your interview, please arrive at the Embassy at the time indicated on your printed appointment confirmation page.

A chief characteristic of globalization is time-space compression, one expression of which is a generalized CNN effect, namely the capacity of news media, nationally or internationally, to report in real time and pressure policy makers to make quick decisions in a particular direction.

By Kevin De Silva   Kevin De Silva, Guyanese, is a graduate of the University of Toronto and is currently engaged with issues related to Guyana and its diaspora.

Last week, we discussed the reason the President cited for proroguing Parliament as his belief that the Parliamentary Opposition wanted to disrupt Government’s business by forcing a debate on their no confidence motion.

This week we asked Berbicians to comment on the malfunctioning of the retractor span of the Berbice River Bridge which left countless persons stranded for hours on both sides of the river last Friday.

Latin American programmes to send more students to US universities are beginning to bear fruit, even if the number of Latin American students in US higher education institutions remains way behind those of China, India, South Korea and even Vietnam.