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By Bibi Khatoon Ten years after gunmen stormed the Region Seven Town of Bartica and killed twelve persons, of one of the survivors, Raymond White, is no longer the man he used to be. Raymond, who is now 60-years-old, was shot four…

By Neil Marks You’d be forgiven if you thought there was a clarion call for supporters of the governing coalition at the National Park Friday night, blazing green and yellow motion lights and all, but, school teacher Onika Joseph put…

By Bibi Khatoon Althea Thomas was just 4-years-old when her life completely changed. It was one sunny afternoon in the village of Buxton, East Coast Demerara where she lived with her parents and seven siblings. During a recent…

By Neil Marks He was 21, a labourer, and she was 15, a stay at home worker or “domestic” in her father’s “cake” shop. The day after Christmas in 1942, they became Mr and Mrs Lorenzo Persaud. More than 75 years later, they are still…

Sovereign debt management can be defined as the process of establishing and executing a strategy for the management of the central government’s debt. Governments incur debt in order to raise the required amount of funding, achieve its risk…

The structure of Guyana’s economy is relatively diverse. It comprises several productive economic sectors namely: the extractive industry which includes gold, diamond, and bauxite mining - while the other productive industries constitute…

By Bibi Khatoon Niketa Hussain, a Cosmetologist lost her aunt, Jaitoon Hussain to cancer in August 2016, weeks after she was diagnosed with the disease. “She was very close to me, unfortunately, she was one of the person that…

Guyanese writer Subraj Singh, 25, has been selected as a participant in this year’s International Writing Program (IWP), the oldest and largest multinational writing residency in the world. The IWP takes places from August 19 to November…

The 39-year-old Roraima Airways pilot, Collin Winston Martin, who died after his plane crashed at Eteringbang in Region Seven on July 25, was today laid to rest. Martin was described as a humble person by his family, friends, and…

Apart from serving as the first line of defence for your eyes, lashes possess an alluring yet luscious beauty. Since ancient times, mankind has been experimenting with varying methods to bring the exquisiteness of one’s lashes to the…