Stabroek Weekend

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.

As a New Year’s promise I am resolved to carry out some soil acidity tests, and to give my roses a heavy dressing of well-rotted cow manure once the pruning has finally been completed.

Every nation and culture has a knowledge of where it has come from, an awareness of shared experience and a sense of its place in world.

In childhood a year is a very large part of a lifetime long – but by old age a year has become fragment – brief.

As every pet owner knows, companion animals reciprocate love unconditionally and irrepressibly.

At six o’clock last Thursday, on the evening of Boxing Day, December 26, 2007, the dramatic production titled Nuff an Plenty opened at the Little Theatre in Kingston, Jamaica.

The year 2007 has been a difficult one for our consumers.

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world CAMBRIDGE – Will the political resurgence of labour unions throw a wrench into the wheels of globalization?

Dr Vaughan Lewis, a native of St Lucia, is the Professor of International Relations of the Caribbean at the Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad.

The statistics are shocking: One in seven women in the United States will be treated for pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) over the course of her lifetime.

I’m 41 and my optometrist told me I need bifocals. I don’t want the old-fashioned ones with the lines.

Introduction As civil society in Guyana has taken – or rather been given – an increasing role in public-spirited tasks such as fighting floods, AIDS, poverty and discrimination – perceived and real – providing legal aid or cheap meals for the poor, those civil society organisations seeking to formalise and institutionalise themselves face more than the usual challenges of resource limitation and fundraising.

From today Mr Christopher Ram, the senior partner of Ram and Mc Rae resumes authorship of the Sunday Business Page.

Tomorrow this tired old year will give birth to a brand new one.

The publication of a list of the most serious concerns faced by consumers during the current year may, with a little luck, induce some improvements for the coming year.

Overfeeding – continued We had begun dealing with this last week.

I started to see blurry and the optometrist told me I am beginning to get something called keratoconus.

What is pterygium? A pterygium is a wedge-shaped fibro vascular growth of the conjunctiva (the surface tissue of the white of the eye) that extends onto the cornea.

It was on Sunday, March 18, that two chess players took a daring step and announced a chess tournament; the first for well over a decade.

Introduction This will be my last column as a regular writer for these pages.