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Abdul Tejan-Cole is Executive Director of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa.

There appears to be no consensus among parliamentary parties about a date for the first sitting of the National Assembly after the just concluded recess.

My friend Patricia Scarpin, who is Brasilian, is a prolific cake maker.

I consider myself reasonably well read and passably well-informed. I try to keep up with what is going on.

As we anticipated in a recent column, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have just released pretty grim economic forecasts for Latin America in 2015.

Four weeks ago, this column urged the Caribbean to begin to think the unthinkable.

(Continued) You remember that last week we began looking at quantifiable and measurable criteria that would assist the caring pet owner in making a well-considered decision on the question of putting the beloved pet to sleep.

At the World Youth Chess Championships held in Durban, South Africa, the strength of India’s player-development programme was thrust into the forefront as the once obscure chess nation won two gold, two silver and two bronze medals.

Chrysalidocarpus lutescens commonly called Areca palm, Golden palm or Butterfly palm originates from Madagascar where sadly it is now endangered and very rare.

Something happened earlier this year which reminded me that government policy and programmes are not for all of us.

I would like to start this column by stating that Ebola is not the biggest problem the world currently faces.

Hardly the socio-political analyst as others claim qualifications to be, I’ll limit this lead item to my personal remembrances, anecdotes and opinions – the latter deduced from both reasonable belief and speculation.

When we think of the enormous sacrifices and hardships our foreparents made to carve this blessed land into the Guyanese nation, we ought to hang our heads in shame at the way we insist on being as a people of the 21st century global village.

Residents of the East Bank Demerara communities of Peters Hall and Providence and parts of Republic Park and Nandy Park came face to face, one week ago, with the effects of a broken local government system.

The Guyana Police Force cannot seriously believe that by publishing piece-meal quarterly statistics it is proving anything.

By The Caribbean Voice   The Caribbean Voice is a New York based NGO that has been involved in social activism since its launch in 1998.

In Guyana, public procurement accounts for approximately $150 billion or 70 per cent of the national budget.

During a recent visit to St Cuthbert’s Mission, we asked residents how the destruction of the Umana Yana by fire had affected them.

If you do not read poetry you miss much. You miss star showers around your head and arrows near your heart.

The death penalty has not been carried out in Guyana since 1997.