Daily Features

By Pauline Melville Pauline Melville is a British Guyanese writer who has worked in theatre, television, film and cabaret.

Conflict brews when there are opposing sides in any society. The thread of conflict has weaved its way through time.

MS Ferguson-Again; locked out, shut down Since the May 26, 1966 declaration of “independence” successive governments, determined to woo foreign investors, seemingly liked the popular usage “Guyana is open for business.”

Statues of seated lions guard the gates of the modest Colonial-style house with the small portico.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan One sees the pointed exchanges by ethnic polemecists in the Guyanese media and one tells oneself that one must do one’s utmost to stay out of it.

Some years ago, the then Prime Minister of Barbados, the late Owen Arthur, told me that unless regional leaders could agree on how to achieve economic parity between CARICOM’s member states, a viable Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) might not be attainable.

Guyana’s Minister of Health has stated that the Infectious Diseases Hospital facility at Liliendaal may have to be expanded if the COVID-19 cases continue to rise.

By Esther Figueroa Esther Figueroa, Ph.D. is an activist independent film maker, writer, linguist and educator who focuses on the environment, social justice, indigenous knowledges and local content.

Are young people safe in Guyana? Are they protected? Names like Neesa Gopaul, Isaiah and Joel Henry, Haresh Singh and Shonette Dover are only a few of those who were not safe.

By Winston Anderson Hon Mr Justice Winston Anderson is third most senior Judge on the Carib-bean Court of Justice (CCJ) and Chair-man of the CCJ Academy for Law.

Despite having the official label of being a food secure nation, it is no secret that Guyana is anything but.

Pity, sad that I’ll never live to SEE… Way in the days of yore – my bygone past – former PNC Minister Annette Ferguson is the type of lady – physically – I just loved.

At 83, the visionary American physicist, Dr Martin Hoffert still zooms around in an ELF, a three-wheeled solar and pedal vehicle that is a striking hybrid between a bicycle and a car, produced in North Carolina by Organic Transit, which later went bankrupt.

Guyana’s Health Minister has stated that the Delta variant of the COVID-19 pandemic may be in Guyana, judging from the spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in the last week or so.

By Ruth Rodney Dr. Ruth Rodney is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at York University, Canada.

Being alive in 2021 is a test of strength and courage, but it is also a time of awakening.

There is no doubt that COVID-19 has significantly impacted our way of life and increased the prevalence of many socio-economic issues within Guyana.

Sars Cov-2: Responding to all variants This, of course, is my own simplified sequence of modern-day intervention – both “subliminal” and openly direct – by the United States of America (USA) into our local colonial and post-colonial politics.

In 1998, an oil industry insider leaked details of a secret scheme to spend millions to undermine a key global environmental accord and to convince Americans that the science behind climate change was shaky.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – Thirty years ago this month, a group of communist hardliners seized control of Moscow and placed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest at his holiday home in Crimea.