Daily Features

The single round swiss-system 2015 Forbes Burnham Memorial Chess Tournament ends this afternoon.

I have been re-reading, slowly and with renewed love and admiration, all of Martin Carter’s poems.

Should one believe the message of the financial markets that the global economy is on the edge of another downturn?

An animal can be born deaf (congenital deafness) or it could acquire the deafness during the course of its life.

In this their sixth conversation, artists Stanley Greaves and Akima McPherson examine Dudley Charles painting, River Spirit. 

Breakfast potatoes along with sunny-side eggs, drizzled with hot pepper sauce is a plate of food that I can easily enjoy at any mealtime.

Thunbergia erecta commonly called King’s Mantle, originated from tropical West Africa and comes from the Acanthaceae family.

I don’t mean that the “professional”, recidivist criminals are actually choosing law school to qualify themselves as attorneys.

There are some people who still want a ‘specialty hospital’ to be built in Georgetown, who believe this is necessary and that such a facility will dramatically improve health in Guyana.

We became accustomed to the PPP/C government not caring much about the distinction that should exist between politicians and public – particularly top public – servants.

Over the past year, I have often said that whoever wins Argentina’s Oct 25 elections, including government candidate Daniel Scioli, will be much better than outgoing President Cristina Fernández.

(Part II) Last Monday, the National Assembly resolved itself into the Committee of Supply to consider the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for 2015.

By Anthony Autar Anthony Autar is a New York-licensed attorney-at-law, with a background in mental health and healthcare law.

Illicit activities The recent disclosure in local print and online media that gold was being smuggled out of Guyana in significant quantities is a blow to the integrity of Guyana’s revenue collection system and an apparent indictment of all aspects of port security ‒ land, sea and air.

At the ripe old age of eighty-two, when one is fully aware that it is time to make sense of what has happened in one’s life, I am convinced about two major things.

Introduction From Guyana’s perspective, today’s column continues to focus on an evaluation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2015-2030, their 169 targets and 304 indicators of compliance, which are scheduled to be agreed upon by all 193 member states of the United Nations (UN) at their upcoming summit on September 25-27 this year.

Mutual incomprehension perhaps best sums up the way in which the anglophone Caribbean and the Dominican Republic presently regard one another.

During The Festival of Flowers we were treated to violin music by a young musician during the lunch break, and what a treat that was along with the steel pan and the cathedral organ.

Pico de Gallo is a fresh uncooked salsa/salad that can be found widely in Mexican cuisine.

Continued Last week, we discussed external ear infections. Well, more often than not, those infectious agents work their way into the middle ear.