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  • 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 »

  • Guyana and the wider world

    By Dr Clive Thomas | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Guyana: Trade-in-goods only In last week’s column I had indicated that I would for the next couple of weeks be evaluating the Guyana Consultation on the Cariforum-EC, EPA held on September 5 and its aftermath. I wish however, to re-state that I do not... Read more »

  • Ian On Sunday

    By Ian McDonald | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 2 Comments

    A bigger threat than terror We have to look forward to a long and terrible age of increasing and fearsome devastation.  I am sorry to be so gloomy but all the evidence is there.  Of course, we must seek, and indeed have even more incentive than before,... Read more »

  • The View From Europe

    By David Jessop | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 0 Comments

    The institutional arrangements in the EPA are of importance Tucked away towards the end of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that will be signed shortly between the Caribbean and Europe is a section that deals with what are known as the institutional... Read more »

  • Business Page

    By Christopher Ram | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 0 Comments

    A look at the Trinidad and Tobago Budget 2008-09 It was like a baptism of heat for new Minister of Finance Karen Nunez-Tesheira of the twin island state of Trinidad and Tobago as she presented the first budget of the re-elected Patrick Manning government... Read more »

  • Lightly spoken words?

    By Staff | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment

    By Legal Analyst In her letter in Stabroek News of September 22, 2008, which responded to allegations of unconstitutional delay by the President in assenting to certain parliamentary bills, Minister Gail Teixeira makes, and repeats, an interesting observation. The... Read more »

  • Through a woman’s eyes

    By Cheryl Springer | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment

    The survival instinct One of the fond memories of my childhood involves my grandmother, who, I believe, was a woman way ahead of her time. She was not the sit-in-a-rocking-chair-with-the-grandbabies-on-your-lap type of grandmother. She was extroverted,... Read more »

  • The race for the White House

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 0 Comments

    The race for the White House

    Hail Mary passes Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica. This is the twenty-sixth in his Sunday Stabroek series on the US presidential election. As those familiar with American football know, a Hail Mary... Read more »

  • Consumer Concerns

    By Eileen Cox | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Danger to swimmers! On Sunday September 7, 2008, a glorious Sunday, 23-year-old Gloria Nedd and her boyfriend, Royston Seecharan, went to the sea-shore between Pegasus and the jetty for a swim in the Atlantic. They were wading, holding hands, laughing... Read more »

  • A Gardener’s Diary

    By John Warrington | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Some plants can be propagated using leaf cuttings In the middle of September the nights get particularly cold in England, and further north in Scotland it is not unusual to experience the first frosts. Already in Manchester the colder nights result in... Read more »

  • Arts On Sunday

    By Al Creighton | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 0 Comments

    ‘My life, my country’ There exists a slim, neat volume of some fifty pages, unobtrusive and unheralded, whose worth is several times more than its unassuming appearance and deserving of much more attention than it has ever been given.  My... Read more »

  • Pet Corner

    By Dr Steve Surujbally | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Distemper Here is another disease against which we can vaccinate, thus offering our dogs meaningful protection. Distemper is a highly contagious disease which is caused by a virus similar to the germ that causes measles in people. Worldwide, it is the... Read more »