Daily Features

by Robert V McRae, CPA On the Line: Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Annual Report 2008 – revisite Background Several weeks ago the Bank of Guyana (BoG) publicly and the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) management privately in a letter to me, responded to a guest Business Page published in Stabroek News of April 12, 2009 under my name.

‘No ill or wrong will overmaster this’ There are some things that keep out the darkness that continually threatens in anyone’s life.

Across the Caribbean, from Guyana to Belize, once peaceful and well ordered societies have become hosts to narcotics trafficking, money laundering, extortion, gun crime, kidnapping, robbery with violence, and more recently, those who would support acts of international terrorism.

Interview with Mexican Ambassador Fernando Sandoval Ambassador Fernando Sandoval of Mexico presented his letters of credence to President Bharrat Jagdeo on February 26 this year.

Ear ailments Maladies of the ear flap (pinna) (Continued) 1.   Splitting of the ear tips Usually, an underlying infection or some other form of irritation (mange, foreign body stuck in the ear flap, horse fly bite, etc) can precipitate this condition which, as the name suggests, is a fissure (a split) on the tip of the ear.

The Consumer Protection Bill On Monday, May 11, 2009 the Consumers Affairs Division in the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce invited the Consumers Association to examine the Consumer Protection Bill 2006.

The Chelsea Flower Show The Chelsea Flower Show always takes place during the third week in May in the grounds of the Chelsea Royal Hospital, and as I write it will probably have ended.

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

A young man’s game All other things being equal, confidence wins games.

The ‘whys’ and the woes of the stye By Dr Neeraj Jain, MBBS, MD (Ophthal), DNB, MNAMS What is a stye?

– John Delury is director of the China Boom Project at the Asia Society, New York.

Public Protection, Public Perception-No credibility? Integrity? I am hanging these brief remarks on a journalistic clothesline provided by Adam Harris in his Sunday newspaper, by Stabroek’s editorial of this Monday and by my own observations of the unfortunate.

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.

Guyana’s International Relations and Foreign Policy 1966-1985 By Dr. Mellissa Ifill This article gives an overview of Guyana’s international relations and foreign policy between 1966 and the mid 1980s and argues that although Guyana’s foreign policy shifted to accommodate the adoption of a differing ideology, particularly after 1970, the themes that dominated Guyana’s foreign policy during the period of review remained constant.

Traveling With Children, Part II This installment of Ask the Consul continues the discussion which began in installment 82 about traveling with American citizen children.

David A.B. Murray is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Graduate Programme in Women’s Studies at York University.

By Sara Bharrat with photos by Jules Gibson This week we asked the man/woman in the street whether they thought test cricket is going to die because of Twenty 20 cricket.

Challenging Canada in Haiti: People to People Solidarity By Kabir Joshi-Vijayan Kabir is a 15-year old Toronto high school student who has been a coordinating member of the Toronto Haiti Action Committee and Canada Haiti Action Network for almost five years.