Daily Features

Events which impact your immigrant visa status Installment 87Q: I have an immigrant visa petition pending and am thinking about getting married.

Guyanese single Test centurions (Part II)By Winston McGowan The most satisfying achievement of cricketers worldwide arguably is the scoring of their first Test century.

Development Watch part 1 Several pro-government letter writers have argued that Guyana has maintained sound macroeconomic fundamentals or macroeconomic stability. 

Tuesday’s Economic  Corner Introduction: In a few months we will be in a new decade.

The Honduras coup is the Caribbean’s businessBy Andaiye, Norman Girvan and Alissa Trotz On April 11, 2002, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez was briefly removed from office by an abortive coup d’etat.

The music scene By Dave Martins Recent letters from Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green and from Mr.

This week we asked the man and woman in the street at Linden what they thought about the medical facilities there and the new Linden Hospital Complex that is to be completed shortly.

The View from Europe By David Jessop (Executive Director of the Caribbean Council for Europe) How should Caribbean governments seek to support tourism during a global recession?

Guyana and the Wider World E – Mail address cythomas@guyana.net.gy Observations Last week’s column sought to make three major observations about the ongoing global economic crisis.

Ian on Sunday Why this glaring discrepancy between prowess in the short versions and generally abject failure in Test cricket?

-How they go free -What? Jhandi Flags in Bridgetown? You – and my editor must believe me.

History of the British Guiana Railway System – Georgetown to MahaicaPart 4This is the fourth instalment in a series of articles which gives a brief overview of the History of the British Guiana railway with particular reference to the Georgetown-Mahaica link.

A resolution and a daughter’s biography It’s another birth anniversary for Slinger  – “The Mighty Sparrow” – Francisco today.

Development Watch by Tarron Khemraj Several commentators have recently expressed the view that remittances are important for Guyana’s economic development. 

So  It Go By Dave MartinsIn modern regional travel, between the normal back-and-forth and the travelers from the diaspora, Guyanese can be found any day of the week crisscrossing the airports of the Caribbean, and it’s not always a picnic. 

In the Diaspora(This is one of a series of fortnightly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana an the Caribbean)Alissa Trotz is the Editor of the weekly In the Diaspora Column I woke up early yesterday to check Caricom’s website for the Communique coming out of the recently concluded 30th Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government in Guyana.

Photos and interviews by Shabna Ullah This week on What the People Say we asked persons, ‘What does Caricom mean to you?’

The global economy: Economic recovery or more misery Last week’s column diverted to treat with the recent disclosures about the CL Financial and Stanford International Groups.

Consumers are contributing to the blockages in the sewerage systemAn attempt to find out the date when the Georgetown sewerage system was started has failed.