Columns

Over the past two weeks, I have wrote several articles on the issue of public-private partnerships (PPPs or P3s), and this article is the last edition in this series.

AS CARIBBEAN Community Heads of Government finalise arrangements for their participation in this week’s four-day summit in Antigua, a senior American diplomat and a Jamaica-based non-government organisation have come forward with surprising positions on two different issues of much importance to the regional economic integration movement.

“It’s quiet out there. Too quiet.” IN the old Hollywood movies, that’s the line that one of the intrepid explorers utters just before all hell breaks loose in the jungle. But the army chiefs are probably saying it in Thailand, too.

PULL QUOTE “Against this background of a paucity of funds and the problems of corruption and misappropriation of funds in the developing recipient countries, the Global Fund in February 2012 appointed a General Manager in Gabriel Jaramillo. He already has reduced the Global Fund’s bureaucracy by 40%, with more staff and less bureaucracy.” TEN years

SAVING IS COOL AGAIN!!! Georgetown, June, 2014: For some, an air conditioning unit is considered a luxury, while others consider it a necessity. Regardless, one underlying fact is that they aide significantly, especially in tropical climates like Guyana, in cooling offices and homes.

Gratifying to witness Mayor Green’s sudden love affair with‘Democracy’ THE Deputy Mayor of Georgetown should tell us why she had supported a ‘no confidence ’motion against Mayor Hamilton Green in 2011, during which he was accused of ‘discrimination and being a ‘dictator’.

THE current attacks against Town Clerk, Carol Sooba, including threats to her life, protests at her home and Mayor Hamilton Green physically attempting to block her from entering her office should come as no surprise to those watching on. This brutish behaviour directed towards females occupying positions of influence at the Georgetown M&CC has been

SURE as day follows night, the Parliamentary Opposition, comprising both the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC), continue a pattern of politics that has become very easy to predict: The politics where only they, particularly the APNU, can dictate and dominate.

A dubious relationship still exists between the PNC/R and Mayor Green OLD Kai finds it strange that the PNC/R was allowed to rack up close to 100 million dollars in taxes owed to the Georgetown Mayor and City Council over a period of 15 years and it was apparently not a concern to those in

Hammie and his hypocritical nature MONDAY’S display by the Chief Citizen, His Worship the Mayor of Georgetown, Mr Hamilton Green, of what was definitely downright discourteous and disrespectful behavior following the visit of the Minister of Government, can only be Local described as unmasking  the contradictions, while concomitantly revealing the hypocritical nature of the man.