Features

  • History This Week

    By Stabroek staff | Thursday, July 2, 2009 | 0 Comments


    Guyana’s delayed political independence
    By Estherine Adams
    On the 26th May 2009 Guyana celebrated its 43rd independence anniversary.  However, the grant of independence by the British occurred …

  • In the Diaspora

    By Stabroek staff | Monday, June 29, 2009 | 0 Comments


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    Caribbean Unity at a Crossroads
    By Alissa Trotz
    Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column
    A section of the audience at the Caricom Diaspora Forum …

  • So It Go

    By Stabroek staff | Monday, June 29, 2009 | 0 Comments


    Coming together
    By Dave Martin
    About 10 years ago, the Rotary Club South of Barbados, started a pan-Caribbean entertainment event in that island, featuring various artistes in …

  • What the people say about…

    By Femi Harris | Monday, June 29, 2009 | 11 Comments


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    Michael Jackson’s passing
    Photos by Jules Gibson
    This week we asked the man/woman in the street their views on Michael Jackson’s death, their favourite song and their …

  • Learning how to live well

    By Ian McDonald | Sunday, June 28, 2009 | 0 Comments


    Ian On Sunday
    Education is important not simply for the implantation of specific information about specific subjects but, perhaps more importantly, for the passing on of …

  • Nostalgia 193

    By Stabroek staff | Sunday, June 28, 2009 | 1 Comment


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    Remembering Plaza Cinema
    By Godfrey Chin
    The final demise of Plaza Cinema when the roof fell in on June 10 merits a nostalgic journey down memory lane …

  • Obituary

    By Stabroek staff | Sunday, June 28, 2009 | 2 Comments


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    Ranji Chandisingh, January 5, 1930 − June 15, 2009
    Ranji Chandisingh, a former Vice-President of Guyana, Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Minister …

  • Kamsky v Nisipeanu

    By Errol Tiwari | Sunday, June 28, 2009 | 0 Comments


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    Chess
    The two positions below occurred at the Bazna invitational tournament in which six of the world’s top grandmasters participated. US grandmaster Gata Kamsky is playing …

  • Ailments of the nose

    By Dr Steve Surujbally | Sunday, June 28, 2009 | 0 Comments


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    Nosebleed
    Pet Corner
    There are some diseases of dogs and cats where one of the associate symptoms is a bleeding from the nostrils (epistaxis).
    Nosebleeds develop when the …