Daily Features

CL Financial Group: Meltdown and bailoutAs promised last week, this week I begin a review of the CL Financial Group meltdown.

Avoid ‘quack’ dentistsNow that Dr Makepeace Richmond is no longer with us I am learning the true cost of dentistry.

Today we publish a guest business column by Robert V McRae, CPACome Tuesday afternoon the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) will be holding its 21st Annual General Meeting at the Pegasus Hotel, a stone’s throw from where it is constructing a new multi-storey head office.

It is all a dreamMy father died nearly fourteen years ago at the age of 89.

The earGeneral considerations Quite unlike the eye, which we have already established is not the dog’s most important organ, the ear is of great value. 

Don’t cram your patio We are in the middle of the great Christian festival of Eastertide, and tomorrow is the marvellously exciting time devoted to the flying of kites along the East Coast, in the National Park and throughout the interior of Guyana, all of which, I suppose, might be symbolic of the Resurrection.

MammographyBy Dr Badhri Veerappan Sivaji, MD (Consultant Radiologist) What is mammography?

All should be involved in making chess a national pastime The momentum for the recognition of chess in Guyana has been rising steadily over the past months much to the appreciation of members of the federation.

– Fyffe’s poor – on their own It’s that time of year again.

(Part Two) By Clyde W. Thierens The high wages received by freed Africans immediately after Emancipation also helped to stimulate the rapid growth of a Black peasantry in British Guiana and Trinidad.

Roman Frydman is Professor of Economics at New York University and co- author of Imperfect Knowledge Economics: Exchange Rates and Risk, Princeton University Press, 2007.

Interviews and photos by Shabna Ullah This week on ‘What the people say’ we asked persons on the Corentyne and other areas in Berbice to comment on the major concerns they have in their areas and got the following responses: Dhanraj Samaroo, businessman, (Port Mourant): ‘A major concern for me is that 75% of the boys and men from about age nine to 36 years old are involved in drugs in the community and nobody is doing anything about it.

The hemisphere at the crossroads: Fourth Summit of the Peoples to meet in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in April 2009 David Abdulah, an economist, has served as chief education and research officer at the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union, Trinidad and Tobago, since 1978.

Invest at your peril: Why did the SEC fine the Stanford Group two years ago?

Too many of my good friends are overwhelmed with work which prevents them living more peaceful, varied, interesting and fulfilled lives.

The issue of climate change has been obscured by the global financial crisis For the last week, the world has watched as the leaders of its twenty most powerful nations (the G20) have met to try to agree a co-ordinated response to the global economic crisis.

Janet Jagan, OE, October 20, 1920 – March 28, 2009 Janet Rosalie Jagan, née Rosenberg, former President of Guyana, died on March 28 aged 88.

The new Theatre Guild By Paloma Mohamed The Theatre Guild of Guyana founded in 1957, is the oldest theatrical and performance facility in Guyana and among the oldest in the Caribbean. 

Considering Obama’s America Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica.

Chess The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.