Now that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has finished his first year in power, it’s time to take a dispassionate look at what has happened in oil-rich Venezuela since he took office on April 19, 2013, and what lies ahead.
This week I begin with a wrap-up discussion of factory performance measures as revealed at the level of the eight individual estates.
About to conclude a column for So it go I am aborting it to write, instead, on a sudden impulse, about Helen Bartlett, a mother in Point Fortin,Trinidad, who is big in the news this week over a video of her beating her 12-year-old wayward daughter.
Two weeks ago the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, made a one-day visit to Havana.
Lousy job Imagine seven years after Sithe Global showed an initial interest in the Amaila Falls hydroelectric project, companies in Guyana are still increasing their profits by as much as 30 per cent in one year.
The Gashimov Memorial tournament which is being held in Shakmir, Azerbaijan, from April 20 to 30, has attracted some elite players, including world champion Magnus Carlsen.
This is not an everyday bread but more for special occasions, mainly due to its richness.
We have been spending what seems to be an inordinate amount of time on this subject.
The Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) is a common sight on the coast and interior of Guyana.
Caladiums commonly called Angel’s wings or Lucky originated from Brazil and Central America.
The declining standards of our performances in sports was put into sharp focus when the team we prepared for the London 2012 Olympics returned following a poor showing – the reality was apparently so upsetting to the Director of Sport that he severely criticised the group calling their showing “miserable.”
-Abduction, Detection, Prosecution Believe me friends, there is no joy, no “satisfaction” having to broach such issues as indicated in my caption – crime, abduction et al.
We need human development. Our society lacks two fundamental tenets of a 21st century society: focus on developing a knowledge society, and action to cultivate human development.
Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change to submit a weekly column on local government and related matters.
When the PPP decided to proceed along its current course of political dominance, it did not know that it would lead it to having to deny important aspects of its “glorious struggle” against PNC authoritarianism, for which so many of its supporters have suffered.
This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.
By Harry T. Hergash Harry Hergash, a graduate of the University of Guyana, taught at the Annandale Government Secondary from 1964 to 1969.
Today, Easter Monday, traditionally being a day when families picnic and fly kites at various venues around the country, we asked the man/woman in the street how they planned to spend the Easter holidays.
A clean confession, combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest form of repentance.
This week’s column concludes consideration of the sugar industry’s land productivity measure; that is tonnes cane (TC) per hectare (HA) of harvested land.
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