The impact of abolition and apprenticeship on female slaves and apprentices (Part 1)
By Cecilia McAlmont
Introduction
Nearly eighteen months ago, in March 2007, Guyana and the rest of the English speaking Caribbean commemorated the Bicentennial of the Abolition of the Trade in Captured Africans.
The Moseley ban
Photos and interviews by
Sara Bharrat and Melissa Charles
This week we asked the man and woman in the street their opinion on the Gordon Mosley ban.
This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.
The role of the Privatisation Unit in the QAII dealIntroduction
The President’s postponed Privatisation and Taxation Seminar finally gets underway this Tuesday at Le Meridien Pegasus, on a by-invitation only basis.
Global trade reform and food pricesBy Dr. Clive Thomas
World food markets
When discussing recently rising food prices most persons do not refer solely to their day-to-day experiences purchasing food items, but to the frequent media reports of prices in the major global markets for food as well.
The region’s new global development partner
By David Jessop
In the past week Venezuela has clearly emerged as by far the Caribbean Basin’s single most important global development partner.
With Errol Tiwari
Carlsen v Eljanov
Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, plays host to one of the most fancied invitational chess tournaments in the world in January of each year.
War and literature
By Al Creighton’s
Here in the twenty-first century wars, insurgencies, terrorist violence, guerrilla warfare, genocidal dislocation, massacres, murderous attacks against humanity, war crimes and criminal carnage of various sorts rage unchecked right in your backyard.
GT&T sends letter to its Essequibo customersBy Eileen Cox
Some time ago this column published a report on the state of the telephone service on the Essequibo Coast, Region 2.
Sexually transmitted diseases: The ‘deeper’ and the ‘darker’ insight
By Dr Soumyaroop Dash MD, DNB
(Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist)
What is a sexually transmitted disease (STD)?
Immunity
By Dr Steve Surujbally
I had said last week that one cannot really understand the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases if the concept of immunity is not grasped.
The word ‘immunity’ stems from the Latin word for ‘exempt.’
Covering Obama
A year ago, his saying that in ‘hot pursuit’ he would breach Pakistan’s sovereignty to attack bin Laden is snatched up by Hillary Clinton as a ‘gotcha’ moment.
Remembering the glory days of West Indies cricket (Part 11)
By Winston McGowan
Ardent Caribbean cricket fans will never forget the period between 1980 and 1995.
Citizen Jagdeo –case study
Patient name: Bharrat Jagdeo, former President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Age: 46
Employment:
2011 to 2012: Micro-manager for Micro-loan project in Micronesia (dismissed for excessive oversight)
March 2012 to Sept 2012: Quality control officer for local firm producing control switches for control panels.