Daily Features

Photos and interviews by Sara Bharrat GuyExpo, Guyana’s largest trade fair, began on October 1 and ended on October 6.

Why Trade Matters At times of global economic and financial crisis keeping trade open matters in this the new age of explosive globalisation.

Answer: the thickness of a prison wall Business Page That is how the former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK, Denis Healey defined the two related practices but which have distinctly separate consequences.

Consumer Concerns September 20-26, 2009 was regarded as Child Protection Week.

Ian On Sunday Towards the end of life – and when you are seventy-six and counting you are not very distant from the end – you become more reflective.

Health Dr Madhu Pandey Singh, MD  (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) Every so often we see news items about very large babies being born.

Nicholas Stern is Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a member of the UK House of Lords.

Enlarged gums ContinuedPet Corner Last week we placed focus on sore gums (gingivitis).

The View From Europe For the most part, the sovereign nations of the Caribbean tend to look past their near neighbours in the non-independent Carib-bean.

Chess It was fighting chess throughout the National Qualification Tournament to determine the participants for the National Championships.

A Gardener’s Diary In Guyana one can look forward to boiling hot days and sleepless night due to the heat, made tolerable only by slowly revolving fans.  Plants

Ignorance + criminality = life cheapened Many years ago I had attempted a piece with a similar caption in this column.

History this week –  No. 2009/35 (Part 2) Estherine AdamsThis is the second instalment in a series of articles which aims at explaining, briefly, why the grant of political independence, which was expected earlier, was not realised in British Guiana until May 1966. 

In the Diaspora (This is one of a series of weekly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean) D.

By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA Introduction: Businesses today are more complex than ever. 

This week we publish the thoughts of some of the exhibitors about the trade fair which is scheduled to end its six-day run tomorrow.

So It Go By Dave Martins From time to time I notice something, or experience something that leaves me wondering in a kind of bemused or intrigued way about it. 

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Peace talks with Israel are in  deadlock and tear gas and rocks are flying at Jerusalem’s holy  sites, but for all the mounting frustration in the West Bank  talk of a Third Intifada seems premature to most Palestinians.

-despite being in business just over a year, dubious market penetration Just over a year after it was launched, the Guyana Times is already receiving over 19% of state ads each month when Stabroek News was not given a single one for 17 months because the government alleged that it did not have sufficient readership.