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Cultivate your flower garden A flower garden is a lovable thing.

Ear ailments(Continued) Maladies of the ear flap (pinna) Swollen ear flap (Othematoma) If the inner surface of the ear (usually, but not always, one side only) of your dog suddenly becomes swollen, then 99 times out of 100 it is because small blood vessels in the ear flap have ruptured and  blood oozes out.

A blessingPerhaps my oldest memory, I must have been two or three, is of my mother hugging me at night when she put me into bed and holding the palms of my hands together while she said a simple prayer which I soon learned by heart.

H1N1 Flu: The virus cocktail By Dr Ritesh Kohli, MD The much-dreaded H1N1 flu which is spreading fear across the globe is actually a cocktail of three viruses, namely Avian flu, human flu and swine flu, making it difficult to contain.

Worse than Vietnam ‘The good news: Obama understands what’s wrong in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Don’t over-water the petunias When I originally moved into my home in New Providence there were two huge Casuarina trees at the north side of the property, close by the house.

What will be the impact of normalised US-Cuba relations on the region?

– Kenneth Rogoff is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and was formerly chief economist at the IMF.

So, how “Polarised” are we? -In the departure Lounge: Understanding Death I hope that as brief as this will be it will be effective enough to motivate you to consider an issue that concerns us all in this under-developed place.

Traveling With Children (Part I) My husband will be traveling to the U.S.

Celebrating 100 years of public library service: A Historical Perspective of the National Library of Guyana By Gwyneth George and Gillian Thompson This article is the first installment in a two-part series that gives a historical perspective of the development of the Public Library Service in Guyana.

The author is the Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development, and Director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

Vandana Shiva is an Indian feminist and environmental activist. She is the founder/director of Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology.

– 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.

Guadeloupe: Chronology of a Strike Thanks to Pablo Morales, editor of the  NACLA Report on the Americas (www.nacla.org),

What are some of the issues of concern you face in your area?

Guyana and the Wider World Next in importance to the damaging effects of the global economic crisis on Caricom’s exports of goods and services, and possibly also public and private investment flows to the region, I predict that when the information is finally forthcoming, the contagion effects of the global crisis on the region’s financial sector will be the most devastating.

Ian on Sunday Running anything – whether it is a national government, vast state industry, world-circling multi-national, small family business, or private club – involves making choices.

International Viewpoint By Jonathan Powers Of all the words said and written about torture in the current debate very few have bothered to look up the history of the birth in 1984 of the UN’s Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.