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WHEN Stacia Bradshaw talks about her daughter and only child, she smiles with love and pride at the tremendous strides this young woman has made. At 20 years old Lil Stacy, as her mother refers to her for reasons of privacy, is employed by one of the city’s leading banks, where she has worked since […]

WHEN it comes to devastating natural disasters, numbers alone don’t tell the entire story. If the California fires were to have happened in New York, most Guyanese would have a better understanding of the sheer scale of its catastrophic footprint, and perhaps also better grasp the untold suffering of the thousands whose lives have been

All of us across the globe, regardless of ethnicity or nationality, see the old year out cherishing hopes and dreams for the new one. We may want to carve an entirely new path for our lives, drop a bad habit or just resolve to be kinder to ourselves and more loving to our neighbours. At

MOST people I know tend to use this time to reflect on the year that went by and look forward, with a mixture of hope, optimism and occasionally doom and gloom, to the months about to unfold. There is a lot that Guyanese have going for them. We have witnessed tremendous strides in every sector

FOR decades now Africans and people of African origin have been ‘locking horns’ with European and North American powers over the question of reparations and the return of objets d’art to their countries of origin. Early in this century, the debate on the repatriation of ‘stolen’ artifacts gained widespread attention, with views expressed for and

THE Rebel Tennis team has once more returned from a tournament in Trinidad, where they launched the Club’s official track suit with a cache of trophies. Although these were fewer than on previous occasions, Coach Andre Erskine said he was “extremely satisfied” with the team’s performances at the recently concluded Royal Bank Junior Tennis tournament.

(Xinhua) THE 25th anniversary of Macao’s return to the motherland stands as yet another occasion to observe the practical success and institutional strengths of China’s “one country, two systems” policy, which has brought enduring stability and prosperity to the region. Over the past quarter century, the practice of “one country, two systems” with Macao characteristics

The Taklimakan Desert, the largest desert in China, has been completely encircled by a green belt stretching 3,046 km on Nov. 28, according to the Xinjiang regional forestry and grassland bureau. Covering 337,600 square km with a circumference of 3,046 km, the Taklimakan Desert lies between the Tianshan and the Kunlun mountains. It is the

AS we edge closer to the end of 2024, I’ve been staring at a map of the Middle East – Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, the Gulf States, Iran and Saudi Arabia – and feeling somewhat nostalgic. These were more than just lines on a map that defined the boundaries of nation-states, they also