Daily Features

Bird Watchers Corner

Yellow-rumped Cacique A Yellow-rumped Cacique (Cacicus cela) singing at a colony near Hauraruni Creek, Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Exposing America

Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former director of policy planning in the US State Department (2009-2011), is President and CEO of the New America Foundation, Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Governance.

New Year, same cricket

As the New Year dawns with West Indies cricket fortunes continuing the same old gloomy, we are seeing yet another series of calls for major surgery on the organization in charge of our cricket.

Negotiating the coalition

If the PPP/C is returned with only a plurality of the votes at the upcoming elections as in 2011, it could adopt the sensible course of inviting the opposition to join it in a coalition government.

They vanish without trace

Recently I was sorting through old files and papers in my library in the process of sending them for deposit at the Special Collections Division of the UWI Library in St Augustine.

Alekhine: The attacking genius

Perhaps an inspiring way to begin the New Year is to focus on one of the finest chess attackers of all time, Dr Alexander Alekhine, (Moscow 1892-Estoril, Portugal 1946).

Culinary ginger

This year almost every Christmas event had lot and lots of freshly brewed ginger beer.

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