Sexually transmitted diseases: The ‘deeper’ and the ‘darker’ insight
By Dr Soumyaroop Dash MD, DNB
(Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist)
What is a sexually transmitted disease (STD)?
Immunity
By Dr Steve Surujbally
I had said last week that one cannot really understand the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases if the concept of immunity is not grasped.
Covering Obama
A year ago, his saying that in ‘hot pursuit’ he would breach Pakistan’s sovereignty to attack bin Laden is snatched up by Hillary Clinton as a ‘gotcha’ moment.
Remembering the glory days of West Indies cricket (Part 11)
By Winston McGowan
Ardent Caribbean cricket fans will never forget the period between 1980 and 1995.
Citizen Jagdeo –case study
Patient name: Bharrat Jagdeo, former President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Age: 46
Employment:
2011 to 2012: Micro-manager for Micro-loan project in Micronesia (dismissed for excessive oversight)
March 2012 to Sept 2012: Quality control officer for local firm producing control switches for control panels.
By Jing Liang
BEIJING – Now that the aftershocks from the great Sichuan earthquake appear to have dissipated, it is time to ask what shocks, if any, the earthquake delivered to China’s political system.
`The glue that keeps us going is our culture’This is an edited version of remarks given at the Tourism Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) Awards Dinner in Guyana in April by Dave Martins
In 1967, the year when Tradewinds became popular with Honeymooning Couple, I came back to Guyana for the first time and when the plane touched down I had tears in my eyes.
Using computers
Photos and interviews by Sara BharratNikki Dey, cosmetologist
I use the computer to browse the internet, send text messages and to download and listen to music.
Much ado about little: Biofuels and climate change
By Dr Clive Thomas
Last week I labelled as risky business, the drive by governments to make the production of biofuels mandatory.
Another try at preventing money-laundering
By Christopher Ram
Introduction
The current select committee review of Bill No 18 of 2007 Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Bill 2007 took me back to the Hansard report of the debate on The Money Laundering (Prevention) Bill 1998 which was piloted by then Attorney General Charles Ramson when he famously announced how proud he was to be associated with a government that had “zero tolerance for corruption.”
All about Obama
By Wayne Brown
As the reader may have noticed, this year’s presidential election is almost entirely about Barack Obama — so much so that poor John McCain only ever seems able to get attention when he’s talking about the junior senator from Illinois — a fact that’s, ironically, resented by both sides.
Reflections at the Seven Ponds
By Ian McDonald
Long ago when David Rose died under forty tons of iron scaffolding in London and came home for his state burial it was the time of Diwali and it was night when they bore him into town from Timehri.
The match of all time
With Errol Tiwari
The following story is inspired by an interview I had with Iceland’s Ambassa-dor to Guyana, His Excellency Hjalmar Hannesson.
A vintage act in an appropriate setting
By Al Creighton
As Guyana steadily steps up the pace towards Carifesta X, the nation presented one of its vintage acts in a very appropriate and significant setting.
The region is on the verge of disintegration
By David Jessop
Is the Caribbean, as one of the region’s elder statesmen recently noted to me, about to enter the darkest period in its history since the collapse of the West Indies Federation?
Be a responsible pet owner
By Eileen Cox
The Guyana Society for the Preven-tion of Cruel-ty to Animals has kindly provided an article on ‘How to be a responsible Pet Owner.’
Computer Vision Syndrome
– from the eye doctor’s window
By Dr Neeraj Jain MD (ophthal), DNB, MNAMS (Consultant Ophthalmologist)
Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) is described as a group of eye and vision-related problems that result from prolonged computer use.