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  • Frankly Speaking By A.A. Fenty

    By Staff | Friday, October 10, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Life’s lighter side…… -Some Stress-Relief Humour Just the light–heartedness, the levity amongst a group of us this past Monday night quickly decided for me that I must abandon the more “serious issues”  today. We were at the Carifesta oasis,... Read more »

  • Ask the Consul

    By Staff | Thursday, October 9, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Non-Immigrant Visas and HIV Installment Sixty-Seven The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a new Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Waiver Final Rule.   This regulation will streamline the issuance of certain short-term visitor visas... Read more »

  • History This Week No.42/2008

    By Staff | Thursday, October 9, 2008 | 0 Comments

    The Rise and Demise of Nationalist Politics in British Guiana By Dr. Mellissa Ifill This article gives a brief overview of the rise and demise of nationalist politics in British Guiana between the mid 1940s to the mid 1950s. In a subsequent article,... Read more »

  • The Indian exception

    By Staff | Tuesday, October 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

    by Shashi Tharoor Shashi Tharoor, an acclaimed novelist and commentator, is a former Under-Secretary- General of the United Nations. NEW DELHI – The ratification by the United States Congress of the historic India-US Nuclear Agreement marks a remarkable... Read more »

  • In The Diaspora

    By Staff | Monday, October 6, 2008 | 0 Comments

    In The Diaspora

    The high artfulness of Hawley Harris In tribute to Guyanese cartoonist Hawley Harris, who recently passed away, this week we carry an excerpt from a longer essay by Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine. By Rupert Roopnaraine Caricatures adorn pharaohs’ friezes and... Read more »

  • Bailout blues

    By Staff | Monday, October 6, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Kenneth Rogoff is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and was formerly chief economist at the IMF. By Kenneth Rogoff CAMBRIDGE – Spend in haste; repent at leisure. With minds concentrated by fears of another 1930’s-style... Read more »

  • What the people say about

    By Staff | Monday, October 6, 2008 | 2 Comments

    What the people say about

    Improving conditions for teachers Photos and interviews by Melissa Charles Sudesh Rampersaud, Painter: ‘Teachers are very important and to my knowledge they are not being treated fairly. They need better facilities at the schools they teach and more... Read more »

  • Ian On Sunday

    By Ian McDonald | Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Victory at all costs? An old sporting argument – good for many lovely hours of intense discussion and fervent discussion – surfaces every now and then. Is winning everything? Or does sportsmanship and “playing the game” come first? Students of... Read more »

  • Guyana and the wider world

    By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 0 Comments

    The EPA: Technicality subverts democratic discourses I have already pointed out that the text of the Cariforum-EC; Partnership Agree-ment (EPA) is very long. The main text, which has to be read in conjunction with several annexes, protocols, schedules... Read more »

  • Business Page

    By Christopher Ram | Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Died on a Monday, exhumed on a Wednesday and born on a Friday:  The rescue of a rescue package It takes going back to the childhood nursery rhyme to capture the events of the past week in the United States of America. It was a week that began with Congress... Read more »

  • The View From Europe

    By David Jessop | Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 0 Comments

    The Caribbean needs to engage in a painful debate on ‘development’ “The euphoria of speculators has spawned the anguish of entire peoples… Only decisive action by governments, especially in countries at the heart of the crisis, will be able... Read more »

  • Pet Corner

    By Dr Steve Surujbally | Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Infectious canine hepatitis Infectious canine hepatitis (ICH) is a highly contagious viral disease, which, as the name suggests, attacks predominantly dogs, although the virus is known to cause illness in foxes, wolves and coyotes. The literature documents... Read more »

  • Consumer Concerns

    By Eileen Cox | Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Consumer Concerns

    Don’t refuse to accept the change to metric It’s metric time again. And it will continue to be metric time until consumers accept that Guyana went metric on January 1, 2002. We still go to vendors and purchase our fruit and vegetables in pounds when... Read more »

  • Chess

    By Errol Tiwari | Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 2 Comments

    Chess

    Tournament to identify candidates for the National Championships begins Sunday The preliminary chess tournament to decide the candidates for participation in the National Championships begins next Sunday at the St Stanislaus College on Brickdam.  The... Read more »

  • The race for the White House

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 0 Comments

    The race for the White House

     Obama pulling away Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica. This is the twenty-seventh in his Sunday Stabroek series on the US presidential election. One minute into his first response to moderator Jim... Read more »

  • The Guyana Legion

    By David Granger | Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 0 Comments

    The Guyana Legion

    The First World War (1914-1918) changed the course of human history in significant ways. For over 700 loyal British Guianese officers and soldiers who voluntarily enlisted and travelled overseas as members of the British West Indies Regiment, it was an... Read more »

  • Health

    By Staff | Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 0 Comments

    A weekly column prepared by Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital Inc. Key ‘whole’ surgery: changing with the times By Dr Anirban Banerjee, MS (General & Laparoscopic Surgeon) Laparoscopy and laparoscopic surgery Laparoscopy, also known as minimal invasive... Read more »

  • A Gardener’s Diary

    By John Warrington | Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 0 Comments

    ‘One year’s seed equals seven years’ weed’ Any man who calls a spade a spade ought to be forced to use one regularly. So said Oscar Wilde, the great Victorian playwright. Here at home in Guyana we get over that little problem by calling a true... Read more »

  • Ramphal reminiscences

    By Staff | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Ramphal reminiscences

    By Edwin W. Carrington Secretary-General Caribbean Community (Caricom) The name of the Honourable Sir Shridath Surendradath ‘Sonny’ Ramphal, OCC is inextricably linked to the pursuit of co-operation, development and integration in the Caribbean, the... Read more »

  • Scholar, erudite jurist, orator and diplomat

    By Staff | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Scholar, erudite jurist, orator and diplomat

    By  P.J. Patterson Former Prime Minister of Jamaica No matter how close the sources or the length of their acquaintance, it still remains unlikely that the combination of tributes will encompass the full measure of the man.  For Sir Shridath Ramphal,... Read more »