Daily Features

By Marianne Flach, UNICEF Representative Guyana & Suriname   No violence against children is justifiable, and all violence against children is preventable.

The ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ campaign is unsurprisingly trending here. We are expressing our outrage on social media, sharing countless images that have gone viral and organising vigils in support of the international movement to ensure the safe return of the abducted Nigerian school girls.

  -Still coming: Inside this ministryThe Guyana Constitution, under the provisions which “guarantee” our Rights and Freedoms, permits, even protects citizens wishing to engage in peaceful public protests and demonstrations against the widest possible range of issues which those citizens deem unjust or somehow against personal, community, workplace or national well–being.

Introduction   Historically the sugar industry developed in Guyana because of its favourable agro-climatic coastal features.

Q: What is the Interview Waiver Program (IWP)? A: The Interview Waiver Program is a new procedure that allows non-immigrant visa (NIV) applicants who meet specific conditions to skip the in-person interviews to renew their visas.

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

We call ourselves a “democracy” but are we? How can the fundamental principle of any democratic state…the right of communities and people to choose their own leaders be perpetually denied for nearly two decades, and we still consider ourselves a democracy?

Our nation suffers from a world-record brain drain. This is our most fundamental crisis.

Recently several letter writers have questioned the veracity of Guyana’s GDP statistics, including the rate of growth of GDP.

“Advances for human rights and democracy depend first and foremost on the courage and the commitment of men and women working for reform in their own countries.

Born in Port Mourant, Guyana and living in the US since 1985, Dr.

Hours before the deadline of 30 April 2014 for the Presidential assent to the Appropriation Bill that the National Assembly had approved in relation to the 2014 budget, Prime Minister Sam Hinds, in his capacity as acting President, signed the Bill authorizing amounts totaling $183.3 billion to be withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund to meet public expenditure.

This week, we asked New Amsterdamers: What would you like to see improved in your environment?

Smallest In a market of diverse ownership, Citizens Bank is one of three commercial banks that have majority Guyanese ownership.

For much of the last decade the Caribbean has been actively diversifying its political and economic relations.

By Ralph Ramkarran Events at City Hall once again intruded into national consciousness and demanded the nation’s attention amidst the major concerns over budget cuts, the AML/CFT Bill, the LEAD Programme, the Rodney Inquiry and local government elections.

Do you remember one of the world’s great exercises in futility?

A new report on press freedoms worldwide contains a chilling figure: Only 2 percent of Latin Americans live in countries with a free press.

During chess legend Garry Kasparov’s visit to Jamaica in April, he was asked to give compelling reasons why he should succeed the incumbent Kirsan Ilyumzhinov as president?

Introduction Before considering options for the way forward in the sugar industry, I shall first examine challenges posed by its underperformance as revealed in the behaviour of the standard performance measures since the 1990s as well as last week’s analysis of Guysuco’s predicament.