Outgoing World Bank President Robert B Zoellick, who is being mentioned as a possible candidate for US Secretary of the Treasury or State if Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wins in the November elections, is trying to resurrect an ambitious idea: a hemispheric free trade area.
Over many years the Embassy of the United States of America in Georgetown has been involved in a range of artistic presentations in Guyana.
Recent developments in Europe and North America, involving Barclays Bank and others in the manipulation of Libor rates, are truly shocking.
Hi Everyone, Lime + water + sugar = swank. It’s that simple that’s why we call it as we see it: lime water.
Story and photos by David Pappanah Of Guyana’s six towns Rose Hall is the smallest.
Introduction I will start with a simple but stark statistic. My list shows that nought-point-nought one per cent (0.01%) of the Guyana population owns between 70 and 80 per cent of the private wealth of the country.
There is a paradox at the heart of European policy towards the Caribbean.
Introduction In my two previous SN columns I have endeavoured to present to readers a basic, but relatively robust macroeconomic accounting framework, from which one could demonstrate how economists would seek, in principle, to account for, or decompose the slippage that has occurred in the government debt to GDP ratio for Guyana over the past five years.
The 120 heads of state and some 50,000 environmentalists, social activists, and business leaders gathered this week in Brazil for the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development deserve credit for trying to save the planet, but they may be missing the point about the best way to do it.
It comes with the territory; when you achieve some sort of prominence in the arts, people are naturally curious about the process.
In his great book Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon, in writing about the reign of Titus Pius, commented in passing that history was “little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”
Continued Problems with the passing of urine You know, there is a bigger and less used word for urination.
Apart from ER Braithwaite, June is also the month in which another Guyanese writer was born.
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Warm, moist air, which is heated by solar radiation, rises vertically near the equator.
Hi Everyone, Antigua & Barbuda beat out front runners Italy, France and Germany to cop first place and the title of Best Design in the recently concluded prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in their nominated category!
Story and photos by Shabna Ullah The village of Adventure on the Corentyne is quite small with a population of about 300, but it is well-known for being home to the Felix Austin Police College which trains new officers.
I long ago became convinced about two major things. They simplify the days that pass so quickly.
Conclusion Introduction Today’s column completes a three-part article looking into the operations of this non-bank, deposit-taking financial institution as well as its murky relationship with the brother of a related party.
Part 2 Introduction As promised last week, I shall conclude my effort to provide a basic accounting of those factors which the macroeconomic data suggest are responsible for the slippage in the government debt to GDP ratio for Guyana that has been observed since 2007.
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