Daily Features

A dramatic spike in support for Obama Last week, in a gun store in West Virginia, sales abruptly went through the roof.

Reconnection of a theatre and a play When Moon on A Rain-bow Shawl returns to the Theatre Guild of Guyana’s Play-house in Kingston on November 7, it will be a rewarding reconnection between the oldest and most established theatre in Guyana and one of the most established foundation plays of the West Indies. 

Michael Spence is the 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, and Professor Emeritus, Stanford University.

No pain, but a lot of gain:painless labour By Dr Amit Verma, MD (Consultant Anaesthesiologist) One of the most thrilling and satisfying experiences in a women’s life is the birth of her child.

Feline ‘Distemper’ This is a viral infection of cats. It has many names.

Security plants Say a prayer for me dear friends. I am shivering in what the English describe as late summer weather.

Eight junior, eight senior players to compete in nationalsThe qualification tournament to decide the players for the National Chess Championships has been completed.

Jorge G. Castañeda, former Foreign Minister of Mexico (2000-2003), is a Global Distinguished Pro-fessor of Politics and Latin American Studies at New York University.

Entertainment Guyana -youth Un-refined, even gross “Entertainment Guyana” is the title of the series I did for this newspaper during the early nineties.

Green Cards and Transportation Letters Installment Sixty-Eight Legal permanent residents (LPRs) of the U.S.

A Theoretical Framework for Assessing 19th Century African-Portuguese Conflict in British Guiana By Mellissa Ifill Most of the analyses of ethnic contestation in Guyana are principally concerned with examining the historic and contemporary ethnic contestation between Africans and Indians, largely because these are the two largest ethnic groups and open contestation between them persists until today.

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.

– Nouriel Roubini is Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University, and Chairman of RGE Monitor (www.rgemonitor.com)

Boys dropping out of schoolPhotos and interviews by Sara Bharrat This week we asked the man/woman in the street why so many males are dropping out of school and what can be done to prevent this.

Barack Obama and the Politics of Transformation Cary Fraser teaches race in American history and Caribbean history at the Pennsylvania State Univer-sity.

Against ‘cockiness’ In an election season that’s seen enough historic moments to satiate a Wagner, it’s noteworthy how suddenly and how often ‘The Narrative’ has turned.

Curbing Corruption – the Corruption Perception Index – part 2 Introduction In introducing this subject last week Business Page sought to explain how Transparency International, the international non-governmental organization, compiles its annual Corruption Perception Index.

A fundamental philosophical divide has  emerged in the context of the EPA After months of argument and eleventh hour confusion, the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Europe and Cariforum was signed in Barbados on October 15.

Home is a lovely place In Canada it is just getting cool and the trees are filling with greenish gold and a darkening red as the beautiful season of fall begins to decorate the landscape.