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By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, February 9, 2010 | 5 Comments
By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA
If yuh plant plantain, yuh can’t reap cassava. (You reap what you sow) Guyanese Proverb
Overview
In a previous column on November, 23, …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, February 8, 2010 | 0 Comments
By Honor Ford-Smith
The first time I met Rex Nettleford was when he came to our Kingston High school in 1968 around the time of the …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, February 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
In years past, hearing outside about my country’s difficulties, I would come home to Guyana with Tradewinds to play music, or just to visit, always …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, February 8, 2010 | 0 Comments
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Guyana’s Republican status and 40 years of celebrating Mashramani. Stabroek News asked the man and woman in the …
By Christopher Ram | Sunday, February 7, 2010 | 5 Comments
An eight-page, abridged version of Ram & McRae’s Focus on the 2010 Budget will appear in Thursday’s Stabroek News.
Introduction
The Minister of Finance has announced …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, February 7, 2010 | 2 Comments
Local government elections are coming later this year, possibly as early as April. Then the big one, another general election, is due next year. I …
By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, February 7, 2010 | 0 Comments
I trust that readers who have been following my rather extended discussion on lessons to be learnt from the failed Copenhagen Climate Change Conference will …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, February 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
By Dr Amit Verma, MD (Anaesthesiology)
The word anaesthesia comes from a Greek word meaning absence of sensation. Anaesthesia is one of the most significant developments …
By Eileen Cox | Sunday, February 7, 2010 | 2 Comments
A landlord refuses to allow her tenant to install a meter in his apartment. The GPL bill covers both the landlord and tenant’s use of …
By Errol Tiwari | Sunday, February 7, 2010 | 0 Comments
The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Just so in …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, February 7, 2010 | 0 Comments
It is a remarkable quality of poetry that it is inexhaustible. Good poems are capable of new revelations, presenting you with new discoveries, fresh ideas …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, February 7, 2010 | 0 Comments
Phyllis Carter,
December 9, 1932 – January 28, 2010
Phyllis Carter, née Howard, widow of the National Poet Martin Carter and member of the Committees of …
By Dr Steve Surujbally | Sunday, February 7, 2010 | 0 Comments
The parotid gland
In dogs, there are four main pairs of salivary glands. Of these, you can actually feel one of them, the parotid gland. …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, February 7, 2010 | 0 Comments
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
NEW YORK – The horrors of Haiti’s earthquake continue to unfold. The quake itself killed perhaps 100,000 people. The inability to …
By David Jessop | Sunday, February 7, 2010 | 0 Comments
Is the Doha Round dead? That is a question that few want to ask or answer, not least because of what it implies about changing …
By John Warrington | Sunday, February 7, 2010 | 0 Comments
The ixora is one of the most popular of flowering shrubs of the tropics, and in particular the dwarf forms which have gained enormously in …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, February 7, 2010 | 0 Comments
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
By Allan Fenty | Friday, February 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
Achievement! Recognition! Then what?
Our young Calypsonians challenge
Besides this being one of my “lazy days” when I’ll quote heavily from one of my favourite controversial sources, …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, February 4, 2010 | 1 Comment
History This Week – No.5/2010
By Gwyneth George
This article examines some of the major transportation issues in British Guiana in the 19th and early 20th centuries …
