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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 Christopher Ram | Sunday, January 31, 2010 | 7 Comments
Part 3
Introduction
To begin today’s column I conclude with two of the provisions relating to supplementary appropriations in the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act 2003, (FMAA). …
By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, January 31, 2010 | 2 Comments
Solution or source of global climate change
In this week’s column I shall wrap up the discussion over the past few weeks of the key lessons …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, January 31, 2010 | 4 Comments
In my home, a step down off the dining room, overlooking the beautiful garden my wife has created, I have my studiolo. A studiolo in …
By Administrator | Sunday, January 31, 2010 | 0 Comments
Honduran President Porfirio Lobo’s inauguration was a pretty lonely affair, with most Latin American presidents shunning the ceremony because of the country’s 2009 coup. But …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, January 31, 2010 | 0 Comments
In an old introduction to African poetry, Nigerian poet and playwright Wole Soyinka who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 comments on some …
By John Warrington | Sunday, January 31, 2010 | 0 Comments
The maze was very popular in the UK five hundred years ago. The most famous one, but by no means the only one, being at …
By Dr Steve Surujbally | Sunday, January 31, 2010 | 0 Comments
Tonsillitis
Continued
Symptoms
Last week, I mentioned the type of tissue that makes up the tonsils. I had also mentioned that in dogs, under normal conditions, one …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, January 31, 2010 | 0 Comments
Ma Jian’s most recent novel is Beijing Coma.
By Ma Jian
LONDON – When former Czech President Václav Havel knocked on the door of the …
