Daily Features

Inequality and poverty are independent though symbiotically related forces driving Guyana’s political economy.

If opposition candidate Aecio Neves wins Brazil’s October 26 runoff election — a possibility that virtually no pollster is ruling out — South America’s biggest country would “de-politicize” its foreign policy and end 12 years of preferential ties with Venezuela, Argentina and other leftist governments, top aides to Neves say.

The first thing to be said about the ebola crisis is that the region should be very proud that among the first to fully understand the seriousness of the threat and respond has been a Caribbean nation: Cuba.

Palms having adapted well hundreds of years ago to the tropics and the Caribbean are now very common in local landscaping.

Magnus Carlsen, the 23-year-old Norwegian grandmaster and World Chess Champion who has demonstrated an extraordinary power over the finest chess players on the planet, has launched a chess playing app that allows players all around the world to challenge him.

The Assembly Rooms on fire in 1945. The Bank of Guyana was eventually built in the space.

Beckwiths Hotel on the left behind an empty lot where the Hand-in-Hand was later built.

Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society (late 19th century)

  Making a stew out of the many cuts of beef that lend themselves to long, low, slow cooking is one of the most delicious things to eat.

(Continued from last week) Last week, I advised that you involve your veterinarian in that debate as to whether to put the pet to sleep permanently, or to try to keep it alive as long as possible, in spite of the agony being experienced by all.

The Georgetown Fire Brigade (c 1930(?)) 

A Spotted Puffbird (Bucco tamatia) photographed at 3Vs in Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke The Spotted Puffbird is often found near forest edges.

Old ideas GuyExpo might have presented new experiences for many Guyanese, but it also brought home the reality of the tragedy of the history of the country.

On April 27, 1953 Guyanese, voting for the first time on the basis of adult suffrage at age 21, gave the PPP 18 seats of the 24 to be filled.

Wedge Capped or Weeper Capuchin (Cebus olivaceus) are commonly seen in the forest along river edges in the Rupununi.

Last month, a young woman came forward to share a horrific report of being drugged then brutally raped by three men at a business in Mahdia where she had worked.

… For purposes of trafficking Greetings! Sure, my regulars will easily detect that I’m recycling thoughts on this issue today, even as my own record of these columns indicate that I essay comments along these lines at least once per year.

Guyanese now span the global village. We’re a global people, a 21st century nation in every sense of the word, with our homeland nesting comfortable, peaceful, pastoral, forest green, sunny yellow, multicultural, between the giant Amazon and the gigantic Atlantic.

Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change to submit a weekly column on local government and related matters.

Perhaps because he was a lawyer, when President Forbes Burnham was suspected of using all kinds of machinations, including peoples’ tax records, to gain their compliance, he loved to – improperly I believe – import the clean hands doctrine into politics: he who sought to criticize and challenge him or the state must come with clean hands.