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• Ask the Consul

  BY Staff

  American Citizen Services
  Installment 73
  Q: I am a U.S. citizen but do not have a U.S. passport and need to travel.  What should I do?
  U.S. law requires that U.S. citizens enter and leave the United States …

• In the Diaspora

  BY Staff

  Afro-Guyanese and Rice
  By Wazir Mohammed
  Wazir Mohamed spent the formative years of his life as a community and political worker, and is engaged in academic research to find answers to Guyana’s seemingly intractable ethnic dilemma.
  This is …

• Central Asia’s Waking Giant

  BY Staff

  by Marcel de Haas (Marcel de Haas is a Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael)

  THE HAGUE – The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) brings together almost half the world’s population, several members …

• Business Page

  BY Christopher Ram
  

  On the line: Banks DIH Annual Report
  Banks DIH, the giant food and beverage company will be holding its 53rd annual general meeting on Saturday, January 17, 2009, close to four months following the end …

• Guyana and the wider world

  BY Dr Clive Thomas

  How is the crisis being transmitted to Caricom?
  In the space of a couple of months and with breathtaking speed, what began as the bursting of the private housing market bubble in the United States, has …

• Ian On Sunday

  BY Ian McDonald

  Enhance your life
  It is extremely important that you pay attention to what today’s column says if you wish to live a longer, healthier, more alert and happier life. We yearn to be immortal but, I …

• The return of just wars?

  BY Staff

  Robert Spaemann is a leading Roman Catholic philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at both the University of Munich and the University of Salzburg.
  by Robert Spaemann
  SALZBURG – As war loomed over Kosovo ten years ago, Germany’s …

• Time for the metaphorical palette

  BY John Warrington

  Four days into the New Year, but I don’t think that it’s too late to wish each and everyone of you the happiest of New Years. Our visitors have departed and we are settling down …

• Consumer Concerns

  BY Eileen Cox

  Planning versus spontaneity
  Last week I gave what may be called an introduction to my daughter’s article, ‘On be-coming a writer.’ Today I give the concluding paragraphs.
  “There are two kinds of writers.  Some are planners; they …

• Arts On Sunday

  BY Al Creighton
  

  Omeros returns to the spotlight
  Derek Walcott’s exceptional 300-page poem, Omeros, which received immediate universal acclaim as soon as it was released some 18 years ago, returned to the world spotlight yet again recently.  The epic …

• Health

  BY Staff

  Leptospirosis – Are you at risk?
  By Dr Ritesh Kohli, MD (Internal Medicine Specialist)
  What is leptospirosis?
  Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease that af-fects humans and animals.  In humans it causes a wide range of symptoms, and …

• Pet Corner

  BY Dr Steve Surujbally

  Diseases of the eye
  Let’s face it; the eye is a very vulnerable organ. In spite of protective eyelids (in many species there are three) injuries and diseases occur often. Of course, a working (dog or …

• The two Americas

  BY Wayne Brown
  

  Some years ago, in what was not a confession but a roughneck’s boast, GW Bush declared that he didn’t read the papers. But the defining moment of his presidency, to this columnist, was those seven …

• Frankly Speaking

  BY Staff

  Guyanese and their government
  with a new “Trade Union Culture”
  On this the third day of the New Year, I thank you for allowing me to ramble, waffle and muse on the captioned topic. In this the …

• History This Week

  BY Cecilia McAlmont

  Valerie Hart: The Woman at the Heart of the Rupununi Uprising

  Introduction

  According to declassified Department of State Documents “At 8am EST [January 3, 1969] Valerie Hart contacted US Ham radio operator and broadcast appeal for help …