Daily Features

Tuesday’s Economic Corner Introduction: A recent report stated that a prisoner costs the state approximately $34,000 per month which is basically what many public servants make a month to take care of their entire family.

Stop This Slaughter By Luke Daniels (This is one of a series of fortnightly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean) In the Diaspora Editor’s Note:  Since January, over twenty women have been murdered at the hands of men they knew, the most recent and horrific crimes involving a son allegedly locking his mother in a room and beating her to death and a spurned ex-lover allegedly setting in wait and killing the mother of the woman he wanted to marry.

It happens every so often, in a public or private exchange, that we find ourselves in a situation where something disturbing or uplifting takes place, and it occurs to us that we should say something, but we think better of it and, often as well, we later have a feeling of regret for not having spoken out.

Photos by Jules Gibson This week we asked the man and woman in the street their views about domestic violence, what they think is the biggest factor and what should be done.

Business Page   Introduction We continue today with part two of the LCDS which President Jagdeo launched on June 8 and which is out for consultation up to the end of September, the timeline driven mainly by the need that it should be ready for the Copenhagen Conference in December of this year.

By Godfrey Chin Nostalgia 456 As a nostalgia buff languishing in reminisces of our wonderful yesteryears – before Independence – the current demise of our cinemas is a total shock and a tragic disappointment. 

Guyana and the wider world I have been arguing for weeks now that the present global economic crisis coming on top of the food and fuel crisis of 2007-2008, requires a global effort to resolve it.

Ian On Sunday Modern man has miraculous powers. He flies to the moon and soars beyond the sun.

The View From Europe   A few days ago Britain’s Finance Bill received royal assent and in so doing passed into law changes to Air Passenger Duty (APD).

Consumer Concerns   PUC Order No 1/2009 has just been received and is as follows:-   “The Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Co has filed an application on May 14tn 2008, seeking to introduce a new service called NEXUS that, it claims, will allow subscribers/consumers who so desire to have a prepaid service and to manage credits from a single prepaid account in such a way that these credits can be utilized for wire line and mobile calls.

A Gardener’s Diary   Most of us have our little bit of Eden by the house.

Chess   The Guyana Chess Federation in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport will convene a one-day chess clinic for beginners on Saturday,  August 8 at Anna Regina.

In our time   “Dr Du Bois took the lead in making the United States and the world recognize that racial prejudice was not a mere matter of Negroes being persecuted but was a cancer which poisoned the whole civilization of the United States.”

Health- A weekly column prepared by Dr. Balwan Singh’s Hospital Inc.

Pet Corner -Nasal solar dermatitis  This fancy name is also called ‘Collie nose’ since it occurs with some frequency in the Collie, the Scottish Sheepdog (‘Lassie’ of television and movie fame is a Collie).

Al Creighton’s Arts On SundayIn a recently published book on the early Caribbean integrationist, legislator, journalist and novelist, ARF Webber, the author Selwyn Cudjoe, in beginning a chapter entitled ‘Colonies in Search of A Nation,’ quotes from Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities (1983): “Nations inspire love, and often profoundly self-sacrificing love.

– Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

Popular church, same attitudes-What security? Me!? A missionary? In Nigeria?

Dr Bertrand Ramcharan, Ph.D. (LSE), Barrister-at-Law, is a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists and Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.