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On August 15 Panama celebrated one hundred years of operation of its canal.

Revolting news In its mid-year report, the government disclosed that the Guyana economy grew by 3.2 per cent.

This horned frog (Ceratoprhys cornuta) in the Iwokrama Rain Forest is doing what it does best; hiding in the leaf litter, waiting to pounce on unsuspecting prey.

General Secretary of the PPP, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, declared at his press conference last week that the PPP has no problem with shared governance and the ‘winner does not take all’ principle.

One might have thought that as time passes the heart might harden as arteries harden and the sense of loss grow less acute as the five familiar senses most certainly tend to do.

Most of us prepare some sort of chicken dish on the weekends in addition to another meat.

Biggest challenges Thus far, discussion of the 2012 Preliminary Census has focussed on 1) the population decline over the intercensal period 2002-2012; 2) the effect of outward migration; 3) estimating what the population might have been if it were not for item 2; and 4) making the inference, based on the preliminary data that high levels of brain drain (observed in previous intercensal periods) persisted.

A year ago, I sat at a lecture, organised by the Cuffy 250 Committee, where a series of questions about the state of African Guyanese communities were raised.

There are some species in the natural world where individuals of either gender can reproduce.

If even regarded by some as ramblings or waffle, I return to my lead issues with pointed brevity.

Guyanese worldwide achieve amazing feats. This aspect of our nation, this ability to rise to world class achievement, we fail to celebrate.

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.

By Jorge Familiar Calderón     Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Bank.

From all indications we will soon have national and regional elections, and all those who wish to see Guyana actually fulfilling its potential rather than its resources being drained away to far off places (the Bai Shan Lin affair) for the benefit of others, must now concentrate all their efforts on developing a strategy that would relieve the PPP/C of government at the next elections.

On 9 June 2014, the Transparency Institute Guyana Inc. (TIGI) wrote the Commissioner of Information requesting a copy of the contract between the Canadian firm and the Government of Guyana for the development of a custom-built automated financial management system.

Hilbourne Watson is a Barbadian political scientist. Trevor Campbell is a Jamaican political economist.

On 22 July 2014, the Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS) announced that only one company met the prequalification requirements for the supply of drugs and medical supplies to the Ministry of Health and the Georgetown Hospital.

The last census report reflected a reduction of the population in Region Six and residents shared their views on this issue below:  Godwyn Allicock, self-employed, ‘I think people from this region are moving out because they are not getting jobs.

Introduction This week’s column continues the discussion of the Bureau of Statistics (BoS) Preliminary Population and Housing Census Report for 2012.

Like any poor country, Guyana is replete with occasions for despair about standards in everyday life.