Daily Features

The most amazing Gladioli corms (bulbs) are available on the market now.

With his recent elevation, new acting Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud has tried to signal that change was coming to the Guyana Police Force (GPF), promising improved accountability for unlawful killings and unjustified shootings, sustained efforts to end excessive police corruption, and policies that treat citizens with dignity and respect.

The Law and Karan’s Nose So the world is now a Global Village?

Next week we celebrate 48 years of Independence. Ours is yet a young nation, still growing up.

New Amsterdam is a historic, honourable and proud community long regarded as the ‘capital’ of the ancient county – Berbice.

Underlying the political culture of all countries is the view that morality is different in private life and politics.

By Saraswati Ali By the time this piece is published, the Indian election results will be fully out.

This week we asked the man/woman in the street about the absence of local government elections over the last 20 years.

Five years after the Government of Guyana and the United States Government signed an assistance agreement for the implementation of programmes like the Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project, the nation learnt that the project has now been put on hold.

The case of Rudisa Beverages and Juices (Rudisa) v The State of Guyana, decided by the Caribbean Court of Justice (“CCJ”) on May 8, 2014, exposes not only the state of governance in Guyana over the past two decades but also symbolizes the complete loss of Guyana’s ability to achieve political agreement on any matter of consequence.

The cliché about a picture being the descriptive equivalent of a thousand words remains relevant because like every cliché it conveys some essential truth.

Leadership   The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) is the second largest bank in Guyana with about 25 percent of the deposits, a market capitalization of $25 billion and assets to the tune of $95 billion or 28 percent of the assets under the control of the commercial banks.

Between May 22 and May 25 Europeans will vote for a new European Parliament.

When you get to my age you are in overtime and a penalty shoot-out looms which you know you cannot win.

We are well into the season of annuals, seeds and bulbs.

In good taste Microwave-made Potato Chips will save your hips and waistline a lot of calories and give you that crisp potato-chip fix whenever you want it.

SANTIAGO, Chile — Foreign Minister Heraldo Muñoz vehemently denies that Chile’s new left-of-centre government will distance itself from — and in effect weaken — the Alliance of the Pacific, the bloc of pro-free market countries made up of Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile that many see as Latin America’s best antidote to the region’s populist craze.

Scientists refer to the Amazonian Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus coronatus) as a “passerine” or perching bird.

I have never had so many telephone calls and letters about a subject since this column was started so long ago.

FIDE, the world chess federation, has published its first-ever Rapid and Blitz rating list allowing chess players to achieve proper and measurable ranks.