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PANDORA’S BOX: Several months ago a couple belonging to prominent families carefully, methodically staged a kidnapping scenario designed to punish parents with whom they had disagreements. Those were adults, one a member of a very respected profession, so expectations of responsible behaviour in such persons were very high, and that is why everyone was convinced […]

STANDARDS CORNER The Guyana National Bureau of Standards joins with other standards bodies and metrology institutions around the world to observe World Metrology Day under the theme, Metrology: Underpinning Economic Development. The 2009 theme highlights the importance of metrology to trade. We can all be proud that metrology has made such a vital input. This

– stern rhetoric, no dataIT WOULD be surprising to learn that the two-day 12th meeting of Caricom Foreign Ministers concluded in Kingston yesterday without considering, as a matter of urgent importance, last Tuesday’s statement by Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson, threatening mass deportation of Community nationals — unless they comply with a six-month amnesty to

MOST people have trouble finding Moldova on a map, and it isn’t getting any easier. A growing number of people are dedicated to making the country vanish from the map — and most of them are Moldovans. It began when about 15,000 people, almost all of them young, came out onto the streets in Chisinau,

(Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist) Perspectives Pull Quote: ‘…notwithstanding a 34% reduction in global infant death rate between 1975 and 1995, a 20% to 80% increase in immunization coverage for children under age one between 1980 and 1990, and great improvement in access to safe water and sanitation, huge health inequities still prevail.

Kid’s Corner Own Recycled Paper EVERY DAY, we use something that is made from trees. One of the things we use most often, especially in school, is paper. Although paper can be made from a variety of natural materials, including cotton, hemp, grass, banana plants, tobacco and even elephant dung in some parts of the

ANTIGUA and Barbuda’s Opposition Leader, Lester Bird, yesterday threatened to pursue legal action against National Security Minister Errol Cort, following the move by the police to charge him for addressing a May Day rally without required permission. On Wednesday Cort, who was defeated by Bird for Antigua’s rural east constituency at the recent March 12

THERE’S a lot of talk about wind and wind power these days. I have been thinking about it and the Bette Midler song `Wind beneath my Wings’, one of my favourites, came to mind. Taking the breeze on a walk along the Guyana sea wall is a delightfully refreshing experience and I enjoy the feel