Daily Features

“All de bess”, “Happy New Year”. The cliched greetings and wishes will be heard for at least another week.

New York – The world economy has had several good years.

Far across blue waters Guyana is calling you Come into the bosom of this land And prove what you can do Come Guyana is calling There’s a welcome at her shores Come all you young people And show the world course These words by Pamela Ali, encapsulate the essence and the excitement in which thousands of artists and onlookers joined to celebrate and display the ‘potpourri of West Indian culture intermixed with a rich flavouring of South American traditions’, in Guyana in 1972.

(this is one of a series of fortnightly columns from Guy-anese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean) In the June 3, 2007 edition of the Sunday Stabroek, David Jessop’s “The View From Europe” column focused attention on the consequences of the loss of Caribbean collective memory.

This week, we asked the people of Berbice: What are some of the problems that affect you and what would you like to see changed in the New Year?

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 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has brought Pakistan’s state of turmoil to new heights.

I suppose it had to happen. My personal limitations? Or choices and preferences?

Forget MIT. Hello, Tsing Hua University. For Clothilde Tingiri, a hot young programmer at Rwanda’s top software company, dreams of Beijing, not Cambridge, animate her ambitions.

With flickering fairy lights and well-decorated homes, many non-Christians in West Berbice, join in the celebration of Christmas and splurge on their shopping while sharing the joy with gifts and goodies.

Herman Vangusty had good reason leave Georgetown seven years ago. Many reasons made him “migrate” to the “Ancient Country” town of New Amsterdam.

Long before December 25, anyone visiting the ‘Cinderella County’ for the first time can feel the ‘spirit’ of Christmas.

As a youngster growing up in Manchester Village with my grandmother, Christmas was always the best time around.

Over the past year, the St Joseph Mercy Hospital Wishbone Project conducted 91 surgeries, including cleft lip and palates, among other surgeries, and a total of 260 surgeries since 2004.

A global killer is ripping through the world’s poorer countries largely unchecked.

More than fifty “Stamp it out” consultations were held across the country since early November and as it nears the wrap-up date, persons are being urged to still make contributions.

What are the must-have things for Christmas this year? We asked several persons in the street this question and these were their responses.

For many Queen’s College alumni, the recent passing of Clem Yhap, known affectionately as “Balance”, in Halifax, Canada at the admirable age of 91, invoked moments of deep personal reflection and sadness.

The world has taken an important step toward controlling climate change by agreeing to the Bali Action Plan at the global negotiations in Indonesia earlier this month.

For eight years, George W. Bush has managed to incarnate and reinforce all the prejudices and negative stereotypes the world has of the US.

Okay the caption might come off as trite and hackneyed. But my “Christmas Is with Us Again” is actually the title of one of my favourite local Christmas time songs.