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Sep 26, 2018 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom During the last Congress of the PNCR, there were some candidates, offering themselves up for leadership posts, and who were campaigning on the grounds that they were young. But when you look at them closely, you were forced to ask just how young is…
Continue readingSep 26, 2018 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon I have known Lincoln Lewis for over forty years now. I see some similarities we have. Maybe that is why we have remained friends for all these decades. We have big mouths, we make noise when we argue with others; we pursue issues that…
Continue readingSep 26, 2018 kaieteur News The Guyana Teachers Union [GTU] is prepared to mobilize its membership to resume strike action if the Ministry of Social Protection moves forward with its decision to impose its appointee to chair the arbitration panel to negotiate a salary increase for public school teachers. The resumed strike…
Continue readingPosted by: Denis Chabrol in Business, News, Politics September 24, 2018 Town Clerk, Royston King leased a parcel of land to a shipping company, but the Commission of Inquiry into the operations of the Georgetown Municipality says that land is owned by government’s holding company for State assets. Chairman of the one-man Commission of Inquiry into…
Continue readingSep 24, 2018 News When it comes to the oil and gas sector, Executive Member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), Dr. David Hinds is concerned that the Coalition Government does not have a vision for the sector. In the absence of a plan for spending and protecting the wealth to…
Continue readingPosted by: Denis Chabrol in Business, News, Politics September 23, 2018 The Alliance For Change (AFC) and the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Sunday looked set to collaborate on whether there should be conditional direct cash transfers of oil revenues to poor Guyanese households. WPA Executive Member, David Hinds confirmed that the AFC has contacted his…
Continue readingBy Ralph Ramkarran sept 23, 2018 Of all the other Caricom countries, Guyana has enjoyed the closest relations with Trinidad and Tobago. Language, common colonial history, ethnic make-up, common cultural patterns, similar systems of government and laws and long established people to people contact have all come together to keep us close….
Continue readingSep 23, 2018 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon During the CPL semi-final, my wife and I were switching channels after each over to escape the onerous banality of seeing the same commercials every five minutes (it can harm you psychologically). My wife switched then went back to cricket but I saw basketball…
Continue readingSep 23, 2018 Features / Columnists, Hinds’ Sight with Dr. David Hinds As Guyana prepares for the coming Oil and Gas dispensation, there is not unexpectedly, a lot of debate over what direction the government should take. We have heard from experts, at least one political party, the private sector organizations, political…
Continue readingBy Mosa Telford stabroek news september 22, 2018 “I was raped,” she said. Stunned by her confession, I wondered: Should I hug her? Should I tell her it was not her fault and that she would be fine? She was not and the path of self-destruction she had chosen finally made sense….
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