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— lest your own words come back to haunt you OLD Kai enjoys listening to the venerable Chairman of GECOM, Dr. Steve Surujballi. You have to admire the man, as apart from being a professional vet and astute elections chairman, he appears to also be an expert in linguistics.

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AS this commentary is being prepared, a three-day ceasefire has been announced regarding Gaza hostilities between Israel and Palestine (HAMAS) brokered by Egypt.

OLD Kai has been carefully sifting through the annual talk shops which spring up during the month of August, where the focus is on gauging the current state of the African community in Guyana.

OLD Kai believes that it was the author Piers Anthony who once wrote, “When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.”

IN this week’s article, we will take a look at how to best manage carcasses (dead animals) and waste water from animal rearing facilities. Dead animals pose a potential risk to human health and must be disposed of in a manner that protects public health and safety, and does not create a nuisance. Sound disposal

THERE is a saying that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. Thankfully as a nation, we have learnt immensely from our past.

–as division grows Analysis by Rickey Singh AS the Guyana Government maps its strategies in preparation for the coming “no confidence” from the parliamentary Opposition, as well as chart the course for its own alert of a related snap general election, both sides may need to also pay attention to the unfolding drama over planned

EBOLA is a truly frightening disease, with a fatality rate as high as 95 percent (although the death rate in the current outbreak in West Africa is only 55-60 percent). At the moment, it is largely confined to a heavily forested inland area where the borders of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea meet, although cases

When Barrack Obama was first elected to the Presidency of the United States, I wrote an article entitled: ‘The Day White America Won.’ It was basically about the hope that Obama signified for America, the chance to put the past of its history of institutionalised and endemic racism behind it.