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By Vanessa Cort SHIRLEY Singh is a woman with a warm disposition and decades-long experience of dealing with fabrics, selling clothing and making tasty snacks. We became friends when I went to live with two of my sons and their wives in Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara. In fact, Shirley reminded me that we met […]

For most young people, life is a blissful experience. Every single day is a fresh chance to see or learn something new. Yet, even as we travel through this seemingly joyful and invigorating era of our lives, many of us happen to lose ourselves to stress and boredom. We stop enjoying life before it really

AT the opening ceremony of the 2023 China International Import Expo (CIIE), Chinese Premier Li Qiang shared an inspiring story of Ali Faiz, a young merchant from Afghanistan, a country long plagued by war and in desperate need of development. Through CIIE, Ali brought to China handmade wool carpets from his hometown, each skillfully crafted

By Neil Kumar THE 2024 Republic Bank, Caribbean Premier League is now climaxing in Guyana. The defending champions, Guyana Amazon Warriors are certainly on a high. Playing in a match on Wednesday night at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence, the home team humiliated the Barbados Royals when they completely out-played them with the ball

“THE vast expanse of heaven and earth unfolds before me; the cows and sheep on the grassland are grazing in the breeze.” Such is the pastoral pleasure celebrated in folk songs about 100 years ago of life in Inner Mongolia, a northern border region in China with an expansive landmass close to the size of

By Vanessa Cort IT was a day of sunshine, laughter, some tears and pure sportsmanship, as players ‘battled’ for trophies at the Smalta Rebel Junior Tennis Tournament. The air crackled with excitement and anticipation as the competitors faced each other across the nets on tennis courts located on the compound of the Guyana Bank of

AS fast as the PPP/C slaps down the unfounded claims of the opposition, they’re recycled in an echo chamber of like-minded bedfellows. Unsurprisingly, political discourse among the rank and file of APNU+AFC lacks integrity. It is futile to have a frank and open discussion about democracy when a clique of writers can’t muster the courage

“I ALWAYS cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left” -Margaret Thatcher. Those are the words of a political giant that I admire. I will not be intimidated by the likes of someone like Paul

THE idea of one’s identity is complex and multi-faceted. Every person has an identity, even though they may occasionally struggle to define it. Although self-identity is something that is in a perpetual process of evolution for everyone, young people may find it especially strange to realise that we are not the same people we were