Daily Features

The IMF’s new direction

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.By Dominique Strauss-Kahn WASHINGTON, DC – Roughly one year ago, the global economic situation looked grim: a severe global recession, sizeable wealth destruction, and declines in trade and employment.

Dandelion Rubber

No, that’s not a misprint; you saw it right.  There is such a thing as rubber from the dandelion plant; that yellow-flower weed that grows like crazy over a piece of land left unused.

What the people say about…How to help Haiti

Interviews by Tiffny Rhodius and photos by Jules Gibson In light of the destruction in Haiti caused by last Tuesday’s earthquake, we asked the man and woman in the street what they thought Guyana could do for the people in Haiti.

Supplementary or contingency: Same abuse

Part 1Introduction So often we hear time-worn sayings like ‘Chickens coming home to roost,’ ‘History repeating itself’ and ‘Forgetting the lessons of history,’ and we think they are just platitudes of no consequence.

More lessons from the Copenhagen failure

Last week I started to identify, in no particular order of importance, those vital lessons that should be learnt from the recent United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change held in Copenhagen, Denmark, which are needed for a careful evaluation of the LCDS and the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Government of Guyana and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway.

Short-changing consumers

At the beginning of the year, GT&T indicated that they would be offering a reduced fare structure for some overseas destinations for a minimum of three months.

Derek Walcott

Walcott and Haiti

Derek Walcott, the Carib-bean’s foremost poet and playwright, who was born in Castries, St Lucia on January 23, 1930, turns 80 this weekend. 

(Clockwise from left) Opposition Leader Robert Corbin, Carl Ince, Basil Williams of the PNCR and President Bharrat Jagdeo enjoy a gaff at the Georgetown Club’s Open House on Sunday, December 27.

Nostalgia 483:Christmas 2009: My best ever

By Godfrey Chin “There’s no place like home for the holidays,” is a truism for the Guyanese diaspora in their castles, caches or cubbyholes from Queensland, Australia to Queens, NY; Toronto to Atlanta; Vancouver to London; and even those in ‘purgatory’ in Barbados.

At the end of Round Five in the World Team Championship, Hikaru Nakamura, playing Board One for the USA, had scored 4.5/ 5 (four wins and one draw) from five games, with a surreal rating performance of 3035.

Gelfand v Nakamura

The World Team Championship 2010 was contested during the period January 3-14 in Bursa, Turkey, and comprised teams from Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Israel, USA, India, Brazil, Egypt, Turkey and Greece.

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