Daily Features

The race for the White House

The dayworld and the nightworld So it’s here at last, ‘the most important election in our lifetime,’ after a gruelling campaign from which, however, few could look away for long, since moment after moment seemed filled with such significance, both for the US and the world.

History This Week

The beginnings of rice cultivation in Guyana (Part 1)By Winston McGowanThis article has been prompted by a recent Government Information Agency (GINA) press release which stated that next month a Rice Festival will be hosted at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence.

Big green jobs machine

Ban Ki-moon is Secretary-General of the United Nations. By Ban Ki-moon NEW YORK – Amid the pressures of the global financial crisis, some ask how we can afford to tackle climate change.

In the Diaspora

Walter Rodney, October 1968 and the Caribbean Quest for Self Expression and Self Emancipation (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)By David Hinds October 16 marked the 40th anniversary of the so-called Rodney riots that accompanied the banning from Jamaica of Walter Rodney, the eminent historian, scholar, thinker and revolutionary.

Business Page

Curbing corruption: The Corruption Perception IndexConclusion Introduction Today we conclude this three-part article arising out of the publication of the 2008 Corruption Perception Index of Transparency International which ranked Guyana at a lowly 126 out of a total of 180 countries surveyed, with a score of 2.6 out of 10.

Guyana and the wider world

EPA, sign or else: Exploding the myth of a partnership of equalsPredictably, the opening act of the increasingly sordid saga of the African Caribbean Pacific group (ACP) – European Commission (EC) – EPAs has come to a tawdry conclusion with two recent developments in relation to the Cariforum-EC, EPA.

Consumer Concerns

Bolts from the blue On Saturday October 18, two new bills hit consumers like bolts from the blue. 

Errol John

Arts On Sunday

Reconnection of a theatre and a play When Moon on A Rain-bow Shawl returns to the Theatre Guild of Guyana’s Play-house in Kingston on November 7, it will be a rewarding reconnection between the oldest and most established theatre in Guyana and one of the most established foundation plays of the West Indies. 

Health

No pain, but a lot of gain:painless labour By Dr Amit Verma, MD (Consultant Anaesthesiologist) One of the most thrilling and satisfying experiences in a women’s life is the birth of her child.

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