Whispering Mabel
One of the best news that surfaced last week was the report that government may again resort to organised public transportation for the hapless commuters who at the present time are exposed to the worst kind of service that is provided by the privately owned minibus operators.
There is just no area of what now is […]
WHEN OVERSEAS RELATIVES VISIT
By Allan A. Fenty
Confronting Crime will present a full feature about the likelihood of unlawful acts at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport later.
Today we discuss scenarios AFTER travellers leave Timehri.
1 There are various “seasons” when thousands of overseas relatives and friends come to Guyana on vacation. Other emergencies or business reasons also bring them.
You see […]
Muritaro lights up
Government takes solar power to the Upper Demerara River community
SOLAR electricity systems installed in homes at Muritaro Village on the Upper Demerara River under the Hinterland component of the Un-served Areas Electrification Programme (UAEP) were officially commissioned Friday by Acting President, Mr. Sam Hinds.
Muritaro is located about 24 miles south of Kara Kara, Linden. The […]
ENGAGING THE ELDERLY
Keith Burrowes
As has been my habit in the past, this week, I’ve decided to write on a topic inspired by a personal observation; in this case my recent witness of the disrespect shown to a very elderly person by some younger people.
I was shocked because I am part of a generation who was taught that […]
What is really wrong in Guyanese society?
A sociological perspective
By Kwame Gilbert
GUYANA presents an interesting contextual construct of the evolution of society, in the multifaceted dimensions of how the various sociological perspectives are brought to bear upon the study of our various social problems.
Social problems, as we seek to understand them, are societal induced conditions that harm any segment of the population, […]
DECISIONS OF CARICOM SUMMIT
- two big surprisesCARIBBEAN COMMUNITY leaders ended their four-day 29th summit in Antigua and Barbuda on Friday night with a range of decisions announced in a 15-page communiqué that offered two significant surprises:First, simply a one paragraph statement on page seven of what is the central objective of the region’s economic integration movement, establishment of […]
CARICOM in ‘memory lane’ journey today
CARIBBEAN Community Heads of Government will today officially mark the 35th anniversary of the region’s economic integration movement that had its historic inauguration at Chaguaramas, in Trinidad and Tobago, as the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) on July 4, 1973.
The leaders present here for the regular mid-year annual summit will today engage in “memory […]
Whispering Mabel
Positively filthy which cannot speak well of those persons illegally occupying the lands running adjacent to the canal alongside what used to be railroad tracks on Lamaha Street beginning at Vlissengen Road and ending at Parade Street.
The unsightly decaying refuse of varying amounts is deposited at each of more than fifty entrances on the pedestrian […]
CARICOM - HARD WORK TO AVOID FAILURE
(At summit in St. John’s, Antigua)HAVING completed last night, their very lengthy public ceremonial opening of the 29th Heads of Government Conference of the Caribbean Community in St. John’s, Antigua, the leaders will settle down this morning to the hard part of grappling with a packed agenda that covers some very contentious and long unresolved […]
Viewpoint By David DeGroot
I have been wrestling with a thought about the claim by the Stabroek News that they are impartial in their practiced policy of disseminating national news, and I agonize, try as I may, that reluctantly my belief of their opposition to the ruling administration appears to be correct.In preparing this viewpoint, I selected randomly some […]
