This week’s column and the first part of next week’s will bring to a close my discussion of the vulnerabilities to be found in the financial regulatory and oversight structures of Guyana and the wider Caricom region.
Some years ago, I heard the late Michael Manley, the former Prime Minister of Jamaica, deliver a speech on the Caribbean’s changing place in the world.
The convention on The Rights of The Child (CRC) is an important document in that it represents a shift from the articulation of the needs of children to the characterization of children as persons with rights.
As I have recounted before, the breadfruit tree (Artocarpus altilis, which used to be A communis) came to the West Indies in 1793 on the good ship Providence, actually to Jamaica and St Vincent, both of which had well established botanical gardens.
Continued from last week Last week, we made some general comments on the treatment of poisonings.
Our illustrious neighbour Brazil, held its National Chess Championship recently with grandmaster Giovanni Vescovi emerging as the sole winner and tying a national record that has stood for over fifty years.
Part 2 Hi Everyone, this week, we continue our Holiday Baking Success series by looking at the all-important Christmas cake.
I am going to assume that you haven’t been living in a truli hut in the Amazon, and you know that since the terrorism upsurge the airlines have these restrictions designed to keep us safe in the air.
The freshness of the air suggests that clouds may soon unleash some rain.
Introduction During the past week Mr Leon Rockliffe, attorney-at-law, has written two letters on developments affecting the Deeds Registry, arguably the most important depository of business information in Guyana, the regulator for businesses and companies, and the authority for a number of critical functions regarding real property.
Winston Murray, CCH, MP, January 31, 1941 – November 22, 2010 Winston Shripal Murray, CCH, MP, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Tourism and Industry and Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform, died on November 22, aged 69.
Thankfully, it is a not too heavily represented group; there is an inner core consisting of public superstars, and there is robust support from a ragbag phalanx operating behind the deep cover of barricades, some official, some scummy.
It is very significant to note that in his continuing programme of theatrical productions to highlight Indian culture in Guyana, director Neaz Subhan, on behalf of the Indian Arrival Committee, produced three plays by Sheik Sadeek.
The controversy Georgetown lost yet another of its exquisite architectural structures, when the former Bureau of Statistics Office, on High Street and Brickdam, opposite the Parliament Building, was demolished in November 2010.
I have always been impressed by the advice the great French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, gave a gambling friend of his who was inclined to doubt the existence of God.
In Mon Repos, at the junction where Agriculture Road meets the Railway Embankment, behind a makeshift stall with cherries and a few cashews, sits Kowsilla Takechand.
The sheer size and pervasive presence of the underground economy in Guyana and some other Caricom countries symbolize the serious vulnerabilities which plague the financial regulatory and oversight structure of the region.
MEXICO CITY — More than 6,000 environmental officials from throughout the world started a new round of United Nations talks this week in Cancun, hoping to reduce global warming.
Encouraging the Caribbean private sector to become more dynamic is far from easy.
Mark Wilson with Patrice Bowen, Anthony Rogers Caribbean Business for CSEC Principles of Business (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
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