Daily Features

Schengen Visa exemptions: First Class and Second Class Caricom citizens? Norman Girvan is Professor at the Institute of International Relations of the University of the West Indies.

In the light of the recent drowning accidents, this week we asked the man/woman in the street whether they thought a person should know how to swim before getting involved in water-related activities, and whether they personally knew how to swim.

Ian on Sunday Why should flesh and blood men and women, with feet of clay like anyone else, presume to think for us and act for us and push us around and mollycoddle us and punish and reward us as if they were inherently superior beings?

Guyana and the wider world By Dr Clive Thomas (E-mail address: cythomas@guyana.net.gy)

The View From Europe By David Jessop(Executive Director of the Caribbean Council for Europe) A little over a week ago, Sir Shridath Ramphal addressed some of those who will be the region’s future ambassadors.

‘The Lethem road would only make economic sense if it was complemented by a deep water harbour’ Ambassador Arthur VC Meyer took up his position as Brazil’s top diplomat to Guyana in October 2005 and is now scheduled to leave the country in early July for another posting.

Health (A weekly column prepared by Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital Inc.)

Consumer Concerns President Jagdeo publicly signed The Evidence and Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2008 on May 22 this year.

Pet Corner (Continued) Bacterial problems of the outer ear I had promised last week that we would go delving into the ‘middle ear’ and see what sort of stomach-turning maladies we will find there. 

Chess with Errol Tiwari Today’s feature game is taken from the 2009 Linares super-tournament that was held in March.

by Wayne Brown(Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica.

G. Pascal Zachary is the author of Married to Africa: a Love Story.

The President – and those who would be– some selective National Awards Hello.

– Robert Skidelsky, a member of the British House of Lords, is Professor emeritus of political economy at Warwick University, author of a prize- winning biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes, and a board member of the Moscow School of Political Studies.

Slavery and indentureship in Guyana: a comparative perspectiveBy Winston McGowanDuring recent weeks this newspaper has published several articles and letters pertaining to a controversial issue in Guyanese history.

– Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

By Bernd Debusmann Ringing words, smoothly delivered: “To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.”

– Rakesh Mani is a 2009 Teach for India fellow, working with low-income schools in Mumbai.

Their first drink of alcohol By Sara Bharrat and Tiffny Rhodius This week we asked the man/woman in the street at what age they took their first drink, if they thought underage drinking is a problem in Guyana and how they recommend the issue be addressed.

In the Diaspora (This is one of a series of fortnightly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guy-ana and the Carib-bean) By Annalee Davis(Annalee Davis is a Barbadian Visual Artist, living and working in Barbados on a series of forty-five artistic projects that investigate the impact and anxieties of intra-regional Caribbean immigration.