AND YOU thought Christmas was over-commercialized where YOU live.There may be around 70 million Christians in China, but they are emphatically not the reason why you cannot walk down

CHRISTMAS trees, Santa Claus and gingerbread lattes are all well and good. But with the homogenizing creep of Yuletide customs, travellers might well worry they’ll go to the trouble

THE biblical Christmas story of The Three Kings may need a rewriting, or at least a tweak to one of the gifts — frankincense. Production of the fragrant resin,

ARGUABLY, the traditional season’s greeting – the Christmas card – is fast becoming an endangered species. In a random, informal survey on this topic, several persons confessed to neither

Unfair business conductTHE COMPETITION and Consumer Affairs Bill of 2011 was assented to by Former President Bharrat Jagdeo on the 27th September 2011.  Local business entities and other stakeholders

THE day we’ve all been awaiting is finally here and already a few hours old. Stores that were once bursting at their seams with Christmas goodies and bristling with

Christmas spirit alive and wellGUYANESE are generally excited about the onset of the Christmas holidays, with their concomitant extensive preparations, both in terms of decorating and in preparing a

HAVE you seen that jolly, portly, white bearded old man dressed in a red and white suit, who unfailingly every year delivers gifts to all the good boys and

“WHAT IS a proverb? Many have tried to tell exactly what a proverb is, but no definition has yet been given that has been accepted by everybody. Indeed it

IN THE Brazilian and Latin American experience of social construction after the colonial period, and the natural survival of each ethnicity’s culture, it was increasingly realised by most of