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Corn is in season. Fresh sweet plumb cobs of corn; they are so sweet that I like to eat them raw.

There is nothing more valuable in man than an ability to write well.

PANAMA CITY — The handshake between President Barack Obama and Cuban ruler Gen Raúl Castro was not the only symptom of changing political winds at the 35-country Summit of the Americas: Much of the region showed signs of ideological fatigue and a new yearning for pragmatism.

In order to remove any misinterpretation/misunderstanding of the text contained in the GECOM Elections Corner relating to Voting by Proxy (published last weekend), please note the following.

Determined to be time–out brief today even as others plunge real deep into the electoral politics of the current robust campaigns.

Introduction: Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) to submit a weekly column on governance and related matters.

By Taurus – The Heckler  FAMILY TIES …  Well-well-well.

Election Observer missions will soon begin to arrive in Guyana in a steady flow over the next week or two.

By Dr. R. S. Surujbally Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission   Preamble For some time previously and again recently, there has been much ado and unfortunate pronouncements about a “padded” Voter List.

I am not one of those who believe that for us to make progress as a nation our politicians could or should forget the past.

The next government will be faced with the task of running a difficult country with a terrible history.

Joy Europe `An issue that needs fixing is garbage. I would like to know if they can clean up the city, because Georgetown is where people come to do business and after that we need to maintain the city.

Last week, we began a discussion of Guyana’s public financial management systems in both the pre-1992 and post-1992 periods.

As promised, this week’s column provides the second of a two-part lesson on the topic: organizing the management of Guyana’s public investment regime.

Frankly speaking, as my columnist friend Alan Fenty would say, I have mixed feelings about the English.

Conclusion Alter the production structure Last week, this writer took a look at the financial profile of NICIL and its links to the long-term investment policies of the government.

I must confess that I have had an ambivalent attitude to ethnicity for most of my life.

I urge all those who can afford it – many thousands of you if you consult your heart first and only then your bank book – to make a gift of a new life for a destitute or homeless Guyanese child.

Last week we dealt with conjunctivitis, an inflammatory process of the membrane which covers the inner side of the eyelids and part of the surface of the eyeball.

Here is the penultimate instalment of the Anatoly Karpov interview discussing Fischer.