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THIS week, I want to address three issues, two that seem to have gripped the attention of the public and the media recently.

IT’S always such a pleasure to be exploring the very far off villages on the Lower Coastal Plain of Guyana, because these villages come with a certain refreshing solitude and pleasantry that is far more entertaining than the customary bustle and fuss one may find in the city of Georgetown.

“EVERY time I call (my mother),” said Russian opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov recently, “she gives me a talking-to: ‘When will you stop being rude about Putin? He’ll kill you’.”

De Potsalt can’t help talking again about how Glenny really vex with the Guyanese paper. When some people vex, dem does want somebody fuh talk to fuh help ease dem mind. But that is only fuh people who gat mind. Never mind, Glenny does always be calling he partners when he vex. Some seh that

APNU-AFC as a coalition party is not new; it was not born on February 14, 2015; all it did on that February 14 was to make the secret public, in order to have increased populous visibility.

“I am convinced that women are far more empowered (today), because when I look at many young women these days, they have been aspiring towards attending university, to having a higher learning/education and even higher studies at the Master level, and I think it is a great accomplishment, for all of us as women, because

LAST Friday (March 6, 2015) marked eighteen years since the passing of Dr. Cheddi Jagan, Founder Leader of the PPP and former Executive President of Guyana. His wife, Janet Jagan also passed away in the same month, March 28.

THE idea that European colonial culture was imposed in Guyana, and therefore should be replaced after Independence by an excavation, or return, or increase of each ethnicity’s original culture, became an easy solution to the unavoidable local cultural problem of pursuing a recognised collective direction in the arts.

A Season of Awards IT is once again the season of awards in various forms of human endeavours but more so in the arts. It is a time when appreciation is shown and acknowledged for excellence in certain fields – the best books, the best films, the best plays, the best musicals, the best actors,

NOW 58, Ramanan Chaturi was born as a ‘short person’, and he believes that one of the reasons for this is that his mother, while pregnant with him, looked at a short person and was intrigued at what she saw.