Columns

Education is an integral part of understanding any area of interest or distress, Climate Change education is no less important as we seek to understand this new weather related phenomenon affecting people not just in Guyana, and the Caribbean region, but globally as well. It is important to be aware of the changes taking place […]

– a champion of women’s rights and of human rights – a distinguished Guyanese leader and citizen extraordinaire AS the governing party celebrates the birth anniversary of former Executive President and First Lady of the land, Mrs. Jagan Jagan, it is fitting that the nation reflects on the contributions of this amazing woman to this

THE behaviour pattern which guides the motivation behind Glenn Lall who is accused of an alleged duty free scam has finally caught up with him.

NATURAL Disasters are occurrences that can happen at any time, in any place. Being able to rebound quickly in the face of adversity is what makes a society resilient.

THE Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pronounced emphatically on the 2014 Ebola as the largest epidemic in history, and indicated that at October 10, 2014, there were 8,399 total cases with 4,033 total deaths from widespread transmissions in West Africa (Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone); and one travel-associated death in the USA (CDC,

This article was first published in 2013 however I’m republishing it because of the first paragraph. I do plan to do a complete article on this individual next week.

I want to deal with a specific issue; that of the phenomenon called ‘sexting.’ I suppose the best point of entry I can conceive of for this piece is an e-mail a friend sent me, the main point of which was to bring my attention to a segment of some show aired on the Oprah

THIS IS the fourth and final installment in what has turned out, inadvertently I should add, to be a series on young people and modern communication technology.

THIS week I want to spend some time on deeply retrospective resolutions and hope that, in the final analysis, my conscience will be filled with that feeling of quiet equanimity.

THE self-styled crusader against corruption, Glenn Lall, was himself exposed by Wikileaks as being one of the most corrupt individuals living in Guyana; and this was from a report emanating from the great USA diplomatic envoys’ observations and investigations. As Lall’s business enterprises come under scrutiny following damaging exposés of alleged fraudulent practices, he is