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-in sub-Saharan Africa[NATIONAL PRESS FOUNDATION] - Sixty per cent of all people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa are women. And the number of women -- particularly of child-bearing age -- receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) is steadily rising...
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February 19Dear Diary,I AM so fed-up with this man. He treats me as though I’m invisible. He doesn’t appreciate anything I do. It wasn’t always like this; we were so much in love when we first met, now it all seems so useless. Maybe mama was right; ...
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Bob and his wife
LAST WEEK, star-actor, Bob Manuel Udokwu and his wife celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary. As a kingpin in the Nollywood industry, where divorce has almost become elevated to the status of a tradition, the Udokwu...
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(A look at some of the stories that made the news ‘back-in-the-day’ with CLIFFORD STANLEY) Lucille fled the home-and John became desperateJOHN WAS a desperate man. His reputed wife, Lucille, was missing; he just had to find her.Of course, John did n...
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On Books and Writing
Brenda DoHarris
(Excerpt of an interview with Brenda DoHarris, conducted in front of Bishops High School, Georgetown, Guyana, January 2010. The interview was conducted mainly in Kitty village where her first novel,...
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ALL OF THE important American writers on film, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.L. Doctorow, Dudley Nichols, Robert Nathan, Pauline Kael, Gore Vidal, Peter Bogdanovich, David Denby, among many others, have identified and bemoaned the fact that films have no...
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OUR PLANET supports a great diversity of species. This is easy to recognize as anyone can easily list many types of insects, birds, fishes, snakes, frogs toads, palms, orchids, roses, grasses, fruit plants, mammals etc. Species of plants and animals hav...
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PULL QUOTE: ‘The interests of the mass media as the new opposition and the masses’ interests are not in sync. Nonetheless, make no mistake about the fact that the new opposition, meaning the mass media and some political derelicts, has a propaganda sy...
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Barbados' critical economic path…Please use pix of PM ThompsonTHE SIGNAL that emerged from last Monday's Public/Private Sector 'Economic Consultation' of a deficit in Barbados' public financing, with reserves falling for the first two months of this yea...
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Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee yesterday issued a statement describing the 2010 US State Department International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR)as a “misrepresentation and falsification of the facts”.“The Report makes reference to ...
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Dominique Hunter
IT’S THE LAUNCH of the National Art Gallery’s exhibition for Mashramani 2010, and acclaimed Guyanese sculptor, Winslow Craig takes time to look at a framed drawing, leaning slightly forward, studying it intently.It...
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The quiet West Coast Demerara village of Stewartville was plunged into a state of shock and mourning yesterday afternoon when fire destroyed a house and an elderly man was burned to death.
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Ramnarace Sarwan last evening received his Sportsman of the
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Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Kellawan Lall has dismissed as unfounded claims by Regional Chairman Clement Corlette that he had exceeded his jurisdiction in sending an overseer on involuntary vacation.
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Opposition cabal exposed in….
Once someone is associated with the Government, even technocrats performing a function with a prescribed mandate, they become a sitting target for the Opposition collective, including the media corps affiliated to the vari...
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- says ambassadorJAPAN’S Ambassador to Guyana, Mr. Tatsuaki Iwata has acknowledged that this country is fast becoming a beacon for developing and developed countries worldwide, due to the tireless efforts of President Bharrat Jagdeo on climate change a...
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Police, assisted by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Air Corps, on Thursday conducted a drug eradication operation at Gateroy, 55 miles up the Berbice River, which netted several marijuana (cannabis sativa) fields and a quantity of compressed marijuana.
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A distressing development has been the recent attempts to reconfigure the history of Guyana and to minimize the contributions of Dr. Cheddi Jagan to all the freedoms we enjoy today.
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FOLLOWING complaints from at least one prominent hotelier about harassment of visitors, Barbadian authorities appear set to increase police patrols on selected beaches.
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THE functionality of the new partnership framework between the Health Ministry and the United States’ President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) “must be” supportive to the National HIV/AIDS response.
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