Stabroek Weekend

Consumer Concerns

It was a smart move by a former government – I believe it was the Burnham government – to amend the Income Tax legislation to make it possible for the Income Tax Commissioner to assess taxpayers with unduly high assessments and prevent their appeals to the Board of Review unless a substantial part of the assessment was paid in advance.

Arts On Sunday

The Guyana Annual 2007-2008, edited by Petamber Persaud and published by Guyenterprise (printed by Ramsaywack Arjun Printers and Graphics with layout and design by Robert Hoban) has been released, and went into general circulation following an official launching at Castellani House on Friday January 11.

The View from Europe

Last week I was in Nassau. There I had the opportunity to listen to an address by the Bahamian Prime Minister, Hubert Ingraham, who recently assumed the role of Chairman of Caricom.

Eye Issues

I’m concerned about cataracts. Should I wear sunglasses? In the eye, one of the structures involved in focusing the light onto the retina is called the lens.

Pet Corner

We won’t deal with those maladies that affect puppies as well as older dogs, eg parvovirus, canine distemper, leptospirosis, etc.

Chess

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Health

Early diagnosis of prostate cancer is very important and there is a great deal all men can do to safeguard their health Currently, there is no scientific consensus on effective strategies to reduce the risk of prostate cancer.

Ian On Sunday

The Economic Partnership Agreement negotiated between the European Union and Cariforum came into force on January 1, 2008.1 have not, I confess, read all thousand pages of its main text, appendices, annexures and schedules.

The View From europe

“Small nations, big ambition”: These are the words used by the Chairman of a major European company to describe the recently initialled Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe.

Chess

It is 1914. Nicholas II, Czar of all the Russias, is hosting a great chess tournament arranged by the St Petersburg Chess Society.

Consumer Conserns

Last week I mentioned that a German group of ladies were highlighting Guyana for the World Day of Prayer.

Eye Issues

My baby has a white spot in her eye and the specialist says it’s a cataract.

The golden age of film musicals in Guyana

I was flattered recently when Ian McDonald in his Sunday Stabroek column of December 16 challenged, “Anyone can mention a subject to Godfrey – sweeties, seawall or sugar estates or dominoes or the old D’Urban racetrack or anything you like – and hardly pausing Godfrey could produce a Nostalgia which will make you laugh and wonder, and say ‘yes that is how it was.'”

Pet Corner

Now that we have entered into the fresh and new year, let’s continue discussing the newborn (puppies, that is).

Business Page

Introduction The statement made by Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) in a letter published in the Sunday Stabroek of December 30, 2007 “reiterating” the position of the PSC that it wanted the government to continue the present and unjustifiable 16% VAT rate and to apply it to reforming (reducing?)

Through a woman’s eyes

One minute you’re in 2007; the next you’re in 2008. The point at which the second hand of the clock moves off 12 is all the difference there is between any two years.

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