Daily Features

Yesterday was World Environment Day, established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 following the Stockholm Conference on the environment.

By Elizabeth Deane-Hughes Elizabeth Deane-Hughes has been a non-practicing Attorney since the late 1990s.

There was pandemonium at the National Park last Saturday morning. The ‘Baderation’ concert was one of the events hosted by Hits and Jams Entertainment during our 56th Independence celebrations.

On Scottish football and local motor sports I don’t suppose former Finance Minister Winston Jordan is a dyed-in-the-wool PNC “comrade”.

In ancient Roman society, there was a practice of holding parties for the poor.

Your right is to perform of your prescribed duties but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.

After two lean years, Caribbean tourism is recovering. As travel restrictions are removed there is widespread optimism about the coming summer and winter season.

At 56 Guyana is like a beautiful woman dancing on stilts for the world.

As of late, I find that when folks around me talk about the COVID-19 global health pandemic, they speak of it in the past tense.

Is our Georgetown really doomed? Very often it is much easier to be negatively critical than it is to be complimentary towards a rival, competitor or opposition.

By Red Thread Red Thread’s members are primarily grassroots women, who live daily with various forms of economic and social insecurity.

Today’s State of the Climate report is a dismal litany of humanity’s failure to tackle climate disruption.

By Seta Tutundjian DUBAI – Global food prices are soaring. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Price Index – which covers a basket of basic food commodities (cereals, meat, dairy, vegetable oils, and sugar) – reached an all-time high of 159.7 in March, up from 141.1 the previous month.

Last week I highlighted the challenges producers have been experiencing in trying to rent the National Cultural Centre.

Two days ago, the Director of Public Prosecutions Shalimar Ali-Hack discontinued the private criminal charge that was brought against attorney-at-law, Nirvan Singh.

Murder in Guyana, killings in New York I speak – and write here – with more than reasonable authority.

By Alison Drayton Director and Representative, Sub-regional Office for the Caribbean, United Nations Population Fund A cursory glance at newspaper headlines across the Caribbean paints a grim picture of the impact of gender based violence (GBV) in the region, particularly violence against women and girls (VAWG): ‘Woman hacked to death at home…’, ‘Cop convicted of raping teenager…,’ ‘Man charged with raping daughter’… ‘St James-based pastor charged with the rape of a teenage girl’… ‘Mother, step-father charged with inciting 13 year old daughter to have sex’…  These are headlines that appeared in newspapers in Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago recently and there are many other similar media reports all over the Caribbean.