SMALL ARMS A critical subtext to last week’s discussion on globalization, governance and the criminal state in Guyana is the role that “small arms weaponry” as defined by the United Nations continues to play in both the consolidation of the criminal faction within the ruling elite and the wider criminal violence daily evident in the society.
The long history of cultural contact between the United States of America and the developing world is interesting, varied, colourful, and often charged with controversy.
Any practical person in charge of anything periodically asks the question: “How do we get things done most effectively?”
Marcus Garvey’s visit to British Guiana in October 1937 is considered the high point of the existence and activity of his United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in the colony.
So, now mom has delivered her litter of energetic, squirming, squealing (when they are awake) puppies.
What is a cataract? In our eye we have a lens, and when we are young, the lens is clear, like clear glass.
Aging in women is associated with the menopausal transition. At the menopause a child-bearing woman has to cope with cessation of her periods and many changes both physical and mental.
On October 23 the European Commission published a new Communication (policy paper) on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA).
Following a regrettable hiatus of well over a decade, the National Chess Championships are back.
Some time ago I visited the garden of an old and dear friend and I only wished then that everyone could see it.
Introduction Demerara Bank Ltd (DBL) kicks off the full year reporting season for those companies with September 30th year ends.
Demerara Distillers Limited 30 June 2007 Interim Report Demerara Distillers Limited’s 2006 financial statements showed that cash and cash equivalents stood at an all time low.
In this week’s column I shall continue the discussion started last week on governance.
The gap between the Caribbean and Europe over the text of a regional Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is narrowing.
Of all the expressions of unconsolable loss I have read concerning the death of anyone greatly loved, the following lament by Henry James, the novelist, when his older brother, William James, the scientist and philosopher, died is the most heartfelt: “I sit heavily stricken and in darkness – for from far aback in dimmest childhood he had been my Elder Brother; and I still, through all the years, saw in him, even as a small timorous boy yet, my protector, my backer, my authority and my pride.
Oswald Hussein staged a sensationally dramatic entry into the top echelons of Guyanese art when he achieved a memorable victory in the National Visual Arts Exhibition of 1989.
Breast cancer is a cancer of the glandular breast tissue. Worldwide, breast cancer is the fifth most common cause of cancer death (after lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, and colon cancer).
I noticed recently I can’t see clearly up close. Why is that?
The month of October is designated Credit Union Month. October 15 is designated Credit Union Day.
Ivan Crandon, former chairman of the Police Service Commission, president of the Guyana Legion and a military veteran of World War II, died on 27 September, aged 80.
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