On 27th February, the People’s Progressive Party, A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance for Change without the permission of the Guyana Trades Union Congress divvied-up the latter’s property and processes.
If the PPP really wanted the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism bill (AML/CFT) it would have been passed since 2011 when it had the majority.
By Shenella Charles Shenella Charles is Guyanese of Afro-Guyanese and Indigenous parentage, who currently resides in Canada.
Two weeks ago, we began a discussion of the 2012 annual report of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) that the Minister of Finance had presented to the National Assembly.
Interviews and photos by Kenesha Fraser Having just observed International Women’s Day on Saturday last, we took the opportunity this week to ask some women along the Essequibo Coast whether they felt enough was being done to promote gender equality.
Story and photos by Dacia Whaul Ruimzigt is a small village located a few miles from Vreed-en-Hoop on the West Coast of Demerara between Windsor Forest and Wallers Delight.
Last week’s column introduced six performance indicators for the sugar industry, which I will examine in coming weeks: production, costs, profitability, land productivity, factory productivity, and combined (land and factory) productivity, in that order.
Law and order Irrespective of the political system, there is general agreement that the safety and security of people are the responsibility of governments.
The headline statement of President Barack Obama was of general application.
At 80 years old I do not think I can be criticised for writing about ageing.
Vriesa splendens commonly called Swordtail or Flaming Sword comes from the bromeliad family and originated from Venezuela and the Guianas where it grows in trees in the rainforest.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s disastrous government is in much bigger trouble than most people think, not because of the student protests that have already resulted in at least 19 deaths, but by a 56 per cent annual inflation rate — the world’s highest — that may soon turn his country ungovernable.
Russia’s de facto annexation of Crimea marks a twenty-first century turning point, carrying with it as many messages for the Caribbean as it does for Europe and the United States.
For one thing, I have observed that, over the past few decades, more and more publications, articles, surveys, research projects and studies are being documented.
A blunder in chess is a disastrous move, a move which confers misery on its perpetrator, and which causes in most instances the immediate termination of a game.
This recipe is about taking Sago out of the realm of breakfast and transforming it into dessert mode.
Within the last four years, around 2,000 young people were arrested and prosecuted for marijuana possession in Jamaica.
The latter-day Chinese have fashioned a gem of wisdom which advises that “women hold up half the sky”.
A Partnership for National Unity column Local government is about local democracy.
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