A recent debate over a political issue took place in the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament on January 12 that happens to raise some serious questions about our attitudes to our indigenous culture and culture in the Caribbean generally.
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In photo are the trophies which will be available to the junior and senior prize winners in the January 2011 Trophy Stall Chess Tournament.
Here is the new Contempt of Court Act, which was passed last year.
Hi Everyone, Food never fails to surprise. You could have been eating a particular dish over and over again throughout your life and yet every time you eat it, new flavour dimensions are discovered.
When I was youngster I worked for about three years at Atkinson Field (now Timehri) which was originally an American base.
Nine miles from Vreed-en-Hoop is the village of Wales on the West Bank of Demerara.
The Jabiru Stork (Jabiru mycteria) is the tallest (122-40 cm) flying bird in South and Central America and belongs to the stork family, Ciconiidae.
If the multitude of establishment executives spent one half the time spent at cocktail parties doing something constructive or creative Guyana would be an infinitely better place.
“I’m one of the rated sno-cone men pun me park,” says sno-cone vendor Ulan Joseph.
The popular play Watch De Ride by Guyanese playwright Ronald Hollingsworth is a drama arising out of an act of carpe diem.
‘A truly-global crisis!’ Utilizing the IMF’s terminology for the economic classification of countries worldwide, as a group the “emerging economies” have been clearly out-performing the “advanced economies” during this protracted period of global economic recession, financial crisis and credit squeeze.
Some time this year, Caribbean heads of government will appoint a new Caricom Secretary General.
Persons with Disabilities Act No.11 of 2010 signed by President Bharrat Jagdeo on November 2, 2010 The Explanatory Memorandum in the bill states: “(This Bill in effect spells out Article 149 of the Constitution in relation to protection from discrimination on the ground, in particular, of disability.
A very happy new year to all. Sowing seeds is not so much of a problem as it was say, thirty years or so ago, due to the gradual adoption by gardeners of the technique called space sowing, and the introduction of the cellular seed tray which enables gardeners to hold seedlings under shelter until the weather ‘outside’ is just perfect for them to be planted in the garden
Most people spend the largest amount of time in their living rooms.
There have been big headlines in recent weeks about projections that Brazil will become the world’s fifth-largest economy in five years, and that Latin America in general will become a new global economic star.
Continued Heat stroke After having dealt so copiously with emergencies associated with poisonings, we may now return to other life-threatening circumstances.
The year 2010 was a significant one for the Guyana Chess Federation.
Hi Everyone, This is a fresh column. It is the first for 2011 but I do not plan to bandy words such as vegetables, vegetarian, diet and healthy.
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