Daily Features

Caribbean nations need to create consensus-driven models of development By David Jessop (Executive Director of the Caribbean Council for Europe) ‘International NGO knocks EPA’; ‘Caribbean EPA held up as a model’; ‘Bernal departs Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery’: so read just three of the many thousands of headlines that accompany the hundreds of thousands of words about the Caribbean’s soon to be signed Economic Partnership Agreement with Europe.

With Errol Tiwari Demerara Distillers Limited will sponsor an eight-round Swiss System chess tournament this month for junior and senior chess players in recognition of Guyana’s 42nd independence anniversary under its popular Topco Juices label.

Derek Walcott: Distinguished Guest at Carifesta By Al Creighton’s As the focus on Carifesta X, to be hosted by Guyana in August 22-31, 2008, intensifies, there is increasing interest in what the highlights of the festival are likely to be.

The advantages of grafting By John Warrington Looking back through one of my journals I read a note I made a few years ago about my Pandanus baptistii screw pine which had finally died.

Wordsworth McAndrew, November 22, 1936-April 25, 2008 (Wordsworth Albert McAndrew, folklorist and journalist, died on April 25, 2008, aged 71.)

‘Et tu, Brute?’ The CW among American commentators is that anything a candidate or his/her surrogate does or says is ‘political.’

The law should be changed to protect citizens against dangerous dogs  By Eileen Cox Much has been said and much written about pit bulls and dangerous dogs.

 Roundworms By Dr Steve Surujbally (Continued) Today we’ll look at the specific symptoms of a roundworm infestation of our canine/feline wards, as well as comment on the possible treatment schedules associated with this scourge.

Limb lengthening A weekly column prepared by Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital Inc.

Can the EPAs be re-strategized?  By Dr. Clive Thomas Re-cap This series of articles assessing the CARIFORUM-EU, EPA sought to establish early on that the agreement rested on several contentious planks as a result of being based on: 1) lack of empirical evidence supporting several theoretical propositions implicit to its formulation;  2) several of the evaluations, assessments and interpretations utilized in the EPA are in strong dispute, lacking consensus among analysts and scholars and 3) design and architectural flaws, including those embedded in  its negotiating modalities.

  Planning for the good life   By Ian McDonald Having retired after 52 years in the sugar industry, including working closely with governments and regional institutions along the way, if there is one thing I have learned it is the extreme frailty of all grand plans.

Yesterday’s May Day               Critchlow, Cheddi and Chand – and Melas It was Labour Day again yesterday.

“East Indian Immigration, 1838-1917 in Guyana” By Tota C.Mangar May 5, 2008 commemorates the 170th Anniversary of the arrival of East Indian indentured immigrants in Guyana the former colony of British Guiana.

The pill that cures everything “How do you spell phsycofrenia …scizo ….dammit

By Bruce Alberts SAN FRANCISCO – Science provides an invaluable source of guidance to individuals and governments.

Pit bulls in Guyana Interviews by Zoisa Fraser and photos by Jules Gibson.

‘Slogging up to Calvary’ On Tuesday night, CNN’s Jeff Toobin got it right.

By Anne-Marie Slaughter SHANGHAI — Immediately after taking office last month, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ordered the release of the 60 judges who had been detained by President Pervez Musharraf since November.

Aimé Césaire: The passing of the doyen of letters  By Linden Lewis, a Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, USA.