Daily Features

China’s Tan Zhongyi defeated Ukraine’s Anna Muzychuk in the final match of the Women’s World Chess Championship in Tehran on Friday to become the 16th women’s champion.

I remember a very long time ago, in the era of Prime Minister, not even then President LFS Burnham, when I was a Director in the sugar industry, I had occasion to enquire from an official at the then State Planning Commission about a request made months before for  approval for the introduction of a new incentive scheme in the industry.

While most people continue to focus on spot-reduction techniques for problem areas (which don’t work), real progress is made in the kitchen.

Petronella Trotman is the name adopted by Ronnell Trotman, who is a transgender person.

As Artists Stanley Greaves AA and Akima McPherson wrap up their Conversations on Art series, they discuss Dominique Hunter’s Tug O’ War Kinda Love, which was done in graphite on paper and completed in 2009.

Unless the sugar industry in Caricom can develop in the coming months a co-ordinated and concerted plan of action, it is quite possible that in a few years’ time there will be little left of an industry which, for evil and good, has played a central role in the making of the Caribbean.

Introduction Last week’s column advanced the view that Guyana’s membership of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a crucial plank in the institutional governance architecture being designed for managing its impending oil and gas extraction industry.

$5m Repair Bill A section of the Harbour Bridge submerged in the Demerara River (above left).

Etlingera Elatior commonly called Torch Ginger originated in Malaysia. Torch Ginger is an attractive member of the Ginger family.

This combo works great for a leisurely breakfast or weekend brunch.

Country Placed On Alert GOVERNMENT and the Health Ministry virtually placed the country on Red Alert last week as the growing thallium sulphate poisoning assumed new and alarming dimensions.

I suppose people have always been fascinated with the element known as fire.

Sarney Is Here Road, debt rescheduling may be on the Agenda PRESIDENT of Brazil Jose Sarney ar­rived here yesterday on an official visit ex­pected to deepen ties between the two countries.

Miners Must Minimise Environmental Damage – King The Geology and Mines Commission and the environment agency are moving to arrest wanton environmental destruction in gold and diamond mining areas.

Even if out of my depth, I’m trying to wax provocative today on two social issues, local and worldwide.

Gaping mouths and ghastly sockets scream silently of nothingness, as the phantom heads float high, trailing suckered tentacles in all ghostly white swathes, sardonic symbols of a post-apocalyptic grim world titled “Sailors on an Exotic Isle.”

Clothing Manufacturers Face Closure By SHARIEF KHAN   SMALL garment manufacturers say they face imminent closure be­cause Sanata Textiles Limited is no longer selling them its cotton fab­rics.

The United States Embassy is happy to answer some common questions about immigrant visas.

The APNU+AFC government does not have a strategic approach for dealing with the Private Sector Commission (PSC); thus its recent reactive response to the legitimate concerns expressed by that organisation in relation to the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) Bill, parking meter controversy, rule of law and economy have been highly propagandistic and unhelpful if one believes that the private sector is indeed the engine of growth.

By SHARIEF KHAN   THE backlash of the FITUG one-day protest last Friday is turning out to be furious and is intensifying the rift between government and the dissident seven-member trade union alliance.