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Vanessa Kissoon now saying she’s being targeted –Because she refused to lie to the nation OLD Kai is not one bit surprised at the latest revelation to come out from the ongoing feud between David Granger and Vanessa Kissoon.

THE UPROAR from the direction of the political Opposition over the construction of the Marriot Hotel should alert Guyanese as to the small world mentality of a collective that daily displays a lack of understanding of what modernisation is all about.  

Exposing the links— PNCR’s team Granger to probe Vanessa Kissoon is an insult to the entire membership

THIS 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

There is too much inequality in many countries, with no lessening of inequality among those rich countries that have the wherewithal to reverse this trend. The New York Times recently carried a ground-breaking series on inequality called The Great Divide where Stiglitz observed that inequality is not inevitable (1); he showed an increasingly growing gap

THOSE seemingly anxious to write the epitaph for the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) should think again. For the Heads of Government of the regional integration movement last week okayed a promising ‘Action Plan,’ chockfull of detailed strategies and objectives.

AS the Russian-backed rebels abandoned almost all their positions in eastern Ukraine apart from the two regional capital cities, Donetsk and Luhansk, the various players made predictable statements.

FOR centuries nature’s bounty has been inhabited by our indigenous peoples, who have lived in harmony with nature; after all, it is thought that 80% of the world’s protected areas lie within the territories of tribal peoples; they are the forests’ original owners, scientists and conservationists.

Ramjattan: The utterly selfish politician THIS vexed issue of the denial of funding for what will be the country’s sole Specialty Hospital is revisted; particularly against the background of the Opposition politician who had spearheaded the motion against its budgetary funding. Since the bidding process had been conducted in quite a transparent manner, and a

Guyanese have lost any trust they had in the AFC COUNSELLING needs to be provided to the women and children, who will be scarred for life, after being exposed to the awful image of the naked AFC councillor.