FROM time to time this column has carried articles alerting consumers as to the dangers of using expired food and drugs and food and …

A FACET OF NATIONAL PLURAL CULTURAL POLICY SEPTEMBER each year has been set aside for the commemoration of Indigenous Heritage Month. This year, the …

SOME weeks ago, this column dealt with folk remedies used in Guyana and particularly herbal folk remedies including tree barks. It was pointed out that …

LITERACY in Guyana has always been a consumer concern and thus this column may again return to it. In the 1950s and 1960s Guyana had …

RECENTLY,  the news media carried the report of a small child in the North West District who had died from a scorpion bite. Several …

ON August 1, we celebrated Emancipation Day which is among the three oldest public holidays Guyana. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, it …

THE public has an overwhelming appetite for political news and developments and accordingly, the media focuses on such. Thus matters of social and even …

IN Western Societies, until very recently, children were regarded as small adults and no different from adults except for their age, size and level …

THE consumer community has always been concerned with Tourism, because of the many facets it presents to society. In the Caribbean islands when their …

ONE of the great achievements of Western Medicine is the process of blood transfusion. Before blood transfusion came to be used as a common …