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What? No clean money? Only laundries? Frankly Speaking The Diaspora – that dispersion or scattering of a people from their original homeland(s).

History This Week By Hazel Woolford The political leaders and trade unionists in British Guiana, and the West Indies had campaigned for the political union of the British West Indian colonies since the 1920s.

Part 2By Tarron KhemrajIntroduction A State Development Bank (SDB) could be an important aspect of the financial system, which channels the society’s savings (cash and financial assets of households and government) to the private sector to invest in production activities (bio-fuels, agro-industrial processing, other manufacturing, financial services, eco-tourism, art and cultural industries, etc).

By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA Introduction Every year I write a New Year’s letter to the President.

– José Manuel Barroso is President of the European Commission. by Jose Manuel Barroso BRUSSELS – Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the contours of world order are still in the making.

Unless you’ve got your head stuck in a bucket, you’ve seen the seawall in Georgetown on Sunday evenings.

In the Diaspora (This is one of a series of weekly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean) By Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is the editor of the In the Diaspora column.

This week we asked the man woman-in-Linden to share their wishes for 2010. These were their reactions.

As we saw last week the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Government of Guyana and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway provides for two sets of conditional payments by Norway. 

Introduction Accustomed only to the arcane drudgery of a calculator and a columnar pad, I turned to the Angel Gabriel and the Deity Ganesh for divine guidance in looking at the world in 2010.

In the spirit of the season Sunday Stabroek asked a few persons not just whether they had made any New Year resolutions for this year, but the silliest one they ever made and whether they had ever kept a resolution in the past.

The National Insurance and Social Security (Amendment) Bill 2009 has been approved by the National Assembly and has to be signed by the President before it becomes law.

In accepting the Nobel Peace Prize recently, President Barack Obama gave a magnificent speech justifying just wars.

ContinuedLast year on December 13, 2009, we discussed the various possible causes of pharyngitis (the consequence of infectious diseases, inflammation of nearby tissues, extension of a rhinitis, air pollutants, unskilled administration of oral medicine, the eating of hot food, genetic defects, etc).

Chess has struggled into the new year with more hopes of attracting a population to the game.

A Gardener’s Diary Gardeners in present day Britain are experiencing a fairly new phenomenon: a preoccupation with size which has got to competition level.

Tony Blair is a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1997-2007.

Frankly Speaking – by A.A. Fenty Bet you this will be my most brief, because I don’t wish much of your time and attention on this traditional lazy, or tired, first day of the year in this part of the planet.

– for that million dollar smile By Dr Kiran Koora, MDS – (Paedodontics)HealthIntroduction Your smile is the first thing someone notices about you, and people often make a judgment about your personality based on your smile; A great smile is not just for celebrities and Hollywood actors; anyone these days can get the smile they’ve always dreamed of with the help of an experienced and trained dentist.

Graca Machel is a Member of the Africa Progress Panel (www.africaprogresspanel.org),