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It is a rule, called a Standing Order, of the National Assembly which allows a member at the beginning of a Sitting to move an “adjournment of the Assembly for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance.” If allowed by the Speaker, the business of the National Assembly is interrupted at […]

‘Guyana is demographically a small country, yet it is a socially complex one with each group operating in a social system based on interdependence’  I DON’T know if it is a personal phase I’m going through, or whether it’s just a manifestation of a male mid-life crisis, but I have noticed of late that certain

‘Guyana is demographically a small country, yet it is a socially complex one with each group operating in a social system based on interdependence’ I DON’T know if it is a personal phase I’m going through, or whether it’s just a manifestation of a male mid-life crisis, but I have noticed of late that certain

on ‘ethnic cleansing’ talk TALK OF ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘genocide’, used occasionally by reckless or frustrated political elements in our Caribbean Community, belong to the lexicon of a diseased political culture that has had horrible manifestations in what was once Yugoslavia and in a few African states.

IT IS generally agreed that North Korea and Burma have the two most oppressive regimes in Asia. They rule over two of the poorest countries in the continent, and that is no coincidence whatever. But there is one marked difference between them. No foreign leaders pay court to the Burmese generals in their weirdly grandiose

Perspectives ‘Democratic norms and practices are so strong today in Guyana that we are on the threshold of consolidation. But weak opposition elements, grounded in an undemocratic culture, may fear the new dispensation and would disadvantage them in an electoral contest’

Construction corner… EVERYONE’S lifelong dream is to own their own home, but there may be times when, even though you’ve been allotted a plot of land by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), you begin to have second thoughts.

QUOTE:‘You do not have to have a doctorate in political science to figure out that there is an Opposition/Media Complex in Guyana. This should be pretty straight forward.’ Even a cursory observer of Guyana today would be able to see that the opposition elements have embarked on a new strategy to ruin the image of