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FOR several years now I had the privilege of serving on several state boards. On the one hand, it is rewarding work, the primary benefit for me being the opportunity to serve the country. The work, even though voluntary, is as strenuous and demanding as any paid job however and, like others similarly tasked, I’ve had to […]

AS the end of 2014 draws near, it is a good time to remind ourselves that it is the United Nations designated “International Year of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Its main objective is to put the 

IN party politics, they say, all things are possible. And this past week two governing parties of our Caribbean Community were quite ready to demonstrate their respective surprises-big time! They are Jamaica’s ruling Peoples National Party (PNP) and Trinidad and Tobago’s United National Congress (UNC)-dominated People’s Partnership (PP) administration.

MABEL noted that Chief Whip Gail has described the fracas over the speaker’s sexual predilection as utter poppycock, but she may be mistaken, it has nothing to do with poppy’s and everything to do with Donald’s. Nothing has caused the Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green as much embarrassment and left him in a bitter mood,

IT IS evident that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) is in transformative mode, and this is in keeping with the reform process of the security sector, as announced by Minister of Home Affairs Mr. Clement Rohee quite a while ago. A particular aspect of this process has been efforts by the Police Force in going

An in-depth focus on Caribbean issues by Sandra Ann Baptiste Tourism officials urged to address Taxation and Bureaucracy INTERNATIONAL tourism and aviation industry leaders have urged Caribbean tourism policy makers and finance officials to re-examine taxation policies and remove bureaucracy, which is harming the industry’s growth and competitiveness and turning off investors.

THE politics which has prevailed in this country since the unfortunate breakup of the original People’s Progressive Party (PPP) led by the late Cheddi Jagan, has been characterised by the pursuit of spiteful vengeance.

With the rapid increase in the global population and the high demand for goods and services, the use of Biotechnology is becoming more necessary in the development process and in many sectors of world economies.

Analysis by Rickey Singh AT the time of writing this column no official statement was released on Thursday’s meeting of CARICOM Foreign Ministers at United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York.

Currently in England, students attending university are up in arms against the new government’s intention to raise the cap on tuition fees from £3,000 to £9,000 and, at the same time, to drastically cut government subsidies in tertiary education by up to 80 percent in some areas. A few months ago 50,000 students marched in