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Guyana hosted the 24th Regional Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) between the 12th and 15th of July. The CPA has 53 members, 9 regions and 175 branches. Guyana belongs to the Caribbean, Atlantic and Americas Region consisting of all CARICOM members except Suriname and Haiti and several other countries. The Region meets annually […]

-as economic crisis bites AMID THE increasing social, economic and political challenges confronting governments in the Caribbean and other poor and developing regions, largely as a consequence of the global financial and economic crisis, Jamaica is the latest of CARICOM states queuing to access new funding arrangements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).  The IMF and the World Bank

‘The Turkeyen Campus, for the academic year 2007/2008, enrolled 2,578 (48.5%) students in the Faculty of Social Sciences; 864 (16.2%) students in the School of Education and Humanities; and 669 (12.6% ) students in the Faculty of Natural Sciences. And the Faculties of Technology, Health Sciences, Agriculture and Forestry and the School of Earth and

AN HIV infected person remains infected for life. Due to the complexities of the infection, exclusive self care is not advised. It is therefore important that qualified health care providers, with an interest in helping the infected person, be engaged. The stage of the disease’s progression dictates the level of intervention needed in the life

SEVERAL DEATHS, within a relatively short time, of persons whom I cared for and/or admired have made me conscious of my own mortality, and of the finality of the Grim Reaper’s scythe. These persons were larger-than-life figures, and all these deaths could have been considered untimely. They certainly caused much pain to a great many

-as economic crisis bitesAMID THE increasing social, economic and political challenges confronting governments in the Caribbean and other poor and developing regions, largely as a consequence of the global financial and economic crisis, Jamaica is the latest of CARICOM states queuing to access new funding arrangements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

‘The Turkeyen Campus, for the academic year 2007/2008, enrolled 2,578 (48.5%) students in the Faculty of Social Sciences; 864 (16.2%) students in the School of Education and Humanities; and 669 (12.6% ) students in the Faculty of Natural Sciences. And the Faculties of Technology, Health Sciences, Agriculture and Forestry and the School of Earth and

AN HIV infected person remains infected for life. Due to the complexities of the infection, exclusive self care is not advised. It is therefore important that qualified health care providers, with an interest in helping the infected person, be engaged. The stage of the disease’s progression dictates the level of intervention needed in the life

SEVERAL DEATHS, within a relatively short time, of persons whom I cared for and/or admired have made me conscious of my own mortality, and of the finality of the Grim Reaper’s scythe. These persons were larger-than-life figures, and all these deaths could have been considered untimely. They certainly caused much pain to a great many

Friday Musings WE GUYANESE may not be among the most prosperous people in the world but that doesn’t mean we will take any gross eye pass from anybody – even if they have been knighted by Her Majesty the Queen in England. Just in case there are some among us who do not know what