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I listened intently to a television discussion last Sunday on Channel 28 sponsored through the auspices of the USAID LEAD Programme.

A few weeks, it seems, since the last one, a new birthday has come along – the 81st no less, hardly believable when one thinks how not so long ago one could joyfully spring up stairs three at a time if the occasion demanded it or party until dawn (very possibly celebrating another West Indies victory as No.

Forty-seven years ago this month Martin Luther King Jr. uttered the words: “We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today.

A letter in Kaieteur News this week, by Mr M Maxwell, made the trenchant point that our forefathers came to Guyana already imbued with the racial prejudices of their ancestral homelands; that those ethnic divides, while recognized and exploited by the British for their own advantage, were a pre-existing condition; it was certainly used but just as certainly not created by the colonialists.

A Blue-chinned Sapphire (Chlorestes notatus) drinking from cashew nut flowers at the Pandama Winery in Madewini, Linden/Soesdyke Highway.

What’s most interesting about the World Bank and International Monetary Fund economic projections released last week was not that they forecast a slower-than-expected growth in Latin America for 2014 — we already knew that — but that they foresee a rebound in 2015 and 2016.

In good taste This is my mom’s favourite cake. When she says that she is giving up sweet for Lent, she means that she is giving up this cake for Lent.

“Iwokrama’s mission is to develop strategies for conservation and sustainable development of the tropical rain forest system for local people in Guyana and the world at large.

Norwegian chess superstar, world chess champion and ambassador extraordinaire for chess, 23-year-old Magnus Carlsen, visited Moscow’s Institute of Physics and Technology, the equivalent of MIT, where he conducted two simultaneous exhibitions recently.

Tomorrow the Dharm Shala will observe its 93rd anniversary.  A release from the institution said that there would be no celebration, but prayers would be offered by representatives of all the faiths.

Just look at the beautiful flowers in bloom and you can tell it is that time of the year – Easter or Spring as they say in northern climates.

Today, of course, is the Christians’ Good Friday. Local experienced attorney Leon Rockcliffe reminds that it is indeed a Good Christian Day second only to the greatest Monday of the resurrection.

We know one thing for sure, in this year of 2014: we Guyanese live in a society trapped in developmental deformity.

By Jim Yong Kim Jim Yong Kim is president of the World Bank Group.

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.

 By Jim Yong Kim   Jim Yong Kim is president of the World Bank Group.

We know one thing for sure, in this year of 2014: we Guyanese live in a society trapped in developmental deformity.

The records of the Ministry of Education will show that in 2003/4, when I was the minister, it began “discussions with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security (MLHSS) to discuss areas of possible collaboration, e.g.

In the previous column (Apr 2, 2014), we observed two ideas relating to the origins of money – the Metallist view and the Chartalist view.

David Abdulah is an economist by training, labour and political activist committed to social justice.