Daily Features

Dani Rodrik, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the weekly In the Diaspora Column There has been a spate of letters to the press in recent weeks on the question of sexuality in Guyana, following the report that a group of lawyers will be bringing a constitutional challenge to a law that criminalized cross-dressing and under which seven persons were arrested and charged last year.

You may think I’m making this up, but it’s true: there is something held in Spain every year called the Tomatina Festival, where a small town, Bunol, is taken over by thousands of people throwing ripe tomatoes at each other.

Interviews and photos by Tiffny Rhodius and Sara Bharrat This week we asked the man and the woman in the street if the community they are from is facing a water shortage and what they are doing to save water given the current El Nino weather and the GWI water cutbacks.

In last week’s column I had expressed my concern over the variations in the stated area of Guyana’s total forest cover that are to be found in the LCDS and associated documents.

Introduction For more than a year, the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc has been in the press, mostly for all the wrong reasons.

The theme selected by Consumers International for World Consumers Rights Day is ‘Our Money – Our Right.’

There are good signs that the cause of literature in the state is being championed more vigorously.

Public resistance to the proposed establishment of a local intelligence gathering body has been loud and steady. 

By Dr Neeraj Jain, MD, DNB, MNAMS  (Ophthalmology) Most people can recite the warning signs of diabetes.

After having discussed the ailments associated with the oesophagus (that tube which connects the oral cavity with the stomach), the next step would be to zero in on stomach problems.

In Madrid on May 18 the Spanish Government as President of the European Union will host the sixth summit of Heads of Government of the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Frankly Speaking…By A.A. Fenty How does the cocaine get here? The country’s still-largest trade union, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), represents workers in the Sugar, Forestry, Alcoholic Beverages, Rice and Fisheries Sectors, among other areas of our national economy.

History this week …No. 9/2010 This article is the second in a series of articles that aims to compare the constitutional developments in British Guiana with those in Jamaica between 1890 and 1945.

By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA Introduction We are all aware of the disasters that have happened in the last few weeks in our region.

In the Diaspora Annan Boodram is a public school teacher, journalist and social activist in New York City.

Two weekends ago I performed in St Lucia.  The occasion was the annual Guyana/St Lucia night, and the Guyanese crew over there had asked me to come over and do my one-man thing where I sing those vintage Tradewinds songs, and tell some funny stories about Caribbean, and particularly Guyanese, culture.

In view of the recent increase in violent incidents in school and involving schoolchildren, residents of Linden were asked what they thought the Department of Education could do to deal with the situation.

Again this year the Link Show was a huge popular success.

The Public Service Minister unveiled a rocket named, ‘Corruption Discovery’ during the recent 2010 budget exercises.