Daily Features

The cost of living relief Interviews and photos by Shabna Ullah and Gaulbert Sutherland What do you think about the cost of living relief measures announced by President Bharrat Jagdeo?

Breadbasket Dependence and the End of Cheap Food By Tony Weis     Rapidly rising food prices around the world are casting tens of millions into increasingly desperate circumstances of malnourishment and hunger.

Using the space created by the interim EPAs By Dr Clive Thomas Collateral damage of the EPAs Beyond the three markers (signposts) of the roadmap sketched in last week’s column, there are a number of economic, legal and other technical considerations, which are vital ingredients for forging a successful way forward in 2008 and beyond.

Hard to imagine how unremembered we all become By Ian McDonald Which of us does not every now and then wonder about time, what is it, how can it possibly be described, what is a moment of it, what is an eternity of it?

We should appreciate our tropical environment By Eileen Cox It occasionally happens that a brilliant student chooses his profession, travels abroad, qualifies in the chosen field, then returns to Guyana to find to his dismay that there is no opening for him in that field.

An unlimited way of being By Cheryl Springer I swiped the headline for this week’s column from a book by a man named Harold W Becker, which I stumbled on while doing research in order to try to have the last word in an argument about religion: the one topic about which I had always sworn I would never argue.

Arrival Day was imaginative this year By Al Creighton Guyana’s Arrival Day was commemorated on May 5 with a series of events leading up to the weekend in celebration of Indian Arrival. 

By Stanley Greaves Wordsworth Albert MacAndrew is among those I refer to as a “Guy-anist,” one who exemplifies to a high degree love of country and all its people without any exemptions or reservations.

Hookworms By Dr Steve Surujbally I suppose all worms are, in one way or another, pernicious.

Jamaica’s government is showing vision and leadership over CubaBy David JessopOn May 4, Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, plus the island’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kenneth Baugh and its Ministers of Tourism, Agriculture, Housing and Health travelled to Havana.

Eye donation: The gift of sight By Dr Neeraj Jain, MBBS, MD (ophthalmology), DNB, MNAMS What is eye donation?

Covering the coverage By Wayne Brown It’s what the media often does: hype a story out of all proportion; fall to believing its own hype; and then be deeply dismayed to discover its audience has moved on, leaving it enisled in its own vaporous excitement.

It’s wisteria and honey suckle time in England By John Warrington It’s wisteria and honeysuckle time in England.

A job – and dignity                   And Eric’s illiteracy On Sunday night I heard the Afro-European-American Democratic contender, senator Barack Obama explain that when his (eventual) father-in-law obtained a job in one of America’s depressed communities, probably during the depression, “the job did not only give him a pay cheque, it gave him dignity!”

Around the museums of (Part 11) By Lloyd F. Kandasammy The Linden Industrial Heritage Museum The Linden Industrial Heritage Museum, one of the most recent additions to the cultural landscape of Guyana is located in the historic Mackenzie Recreation Hall, which was used in the past for concerts, dances, meetings and other social events.

By Jimmy Carter Atlanta — The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world by sea, air, or land. An

Zeina Zaatari is senior programme officer for the Middle East and North Africa for the Global Fund for Women.

The Mavado, Bounty Killa ban Interviews and photos by Gaulbert Sutherland and Shabna Ullah   Do you support the ban on Mavado and Bounty Killa from performing in Guyana?

A Tribute to Wordsworth Wordsworth McAndrew, who recently passed on after a brief illness in the United States, was born and grew up in Georgetown.