Daily Features

Leptospirosis – Are you at risk? By Dr Ritesh Kohli, MD (Internal Medicine Specialist) What is leptospirosis?

Diseases of the eye Let’s face it; the eye is a very vulnerable organ.

Some years ago, in what was not a confession but a roughneck’s boast, GW Bush declared that he didn’t read the papers.

Guyanese and their government with a new “Trade Union Culture” On this the third day of the New Year, I thank you for allowing me to ramble, waffle and muse on the captioned topic.

Valerie Hart: The Woman at the Heart of the Rupununi UprisingIntroductionAccording to declassified Department of State Documents “At 8am EST [January 3, 1969] Valerie Hart contacted US Ham radio operator and broadcast appeal for help from U.S.

By Esther Dyson – Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings, is an active investor in a variety of start-ups around the world.

Weeks of flooding Residents of Dochfour/ Hope on the East Coast of Demerara have been trapped in flooded environs for almost three weeks.

The debt is unpayable La deuda es impagable January 1, 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, with commemorative events held in virtually every corner of the world.

Obama: From poetry to prose Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica.

How will future economic growth be affected? V, U, or L-shaped growth curve Following last week’s column, I shall discuss this week the impact of the financial crisis and credit crunch on the prospects for economic growth performance in the United States, the broader global economy, and Caricom.

Sunday Stabroek asked a few of Guyana’s politicians to share their wishes for the New Year; here are their responses.

Our world in 2009 Introduction Certainly the most authoritative publication which predicts the grand occasions and developments of the following year is the widely circulated Economist, published in the UK.

Dark night of the soul When our young son was struck by agonising abdominal pains in the middle of the night recently and we had to rush him to Emergency at York Central Hospital in Toronto, in the four or five hours before he was attended to I felt the sort of helpless despair which must be the experience of countless thousands in this pitiless world when their loved ones are at deadly risk or dying or dead by accident or some other stroke of unrelenting fate.

A tumultuous year It proved to be a tumultuous year for the game of chess.

By Nigel Westmaas “To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world; our stories are singular but our destinies are shared – the new dawn of American leadership is at hand.”

Heart attack – Getting to the ‘heart’ of the trouble By Dr Pankaj Kshatriya, MD (Internal Medicine Specialist) A heart attack may be defined as a sudden failure of the heart to function normally.

To become a writer So you want to become a writer, a novelist, and you don’t know how to begin.

The value of adopting a pet in the new year I would urge you, dear readers, on this last Sunday before the advent of the New Year, to consider adopting a dog or cat in 2009.

The Christmas festival has always contained a strong secular element, which has its early origins in the Roman midwinter festival of Saturnalia.

Karim Sadjadpour is an Associate at the Carnegie Endow-ment for Inter-national Peace.