Daily Features

 This week I want to say a few words about softwood cuttings which are taken from the youngest parts of a plant.

For Guyanese of yesteryear, the merry month of May was hailed as ‘the beginning of summer’ for the locals in the tropical seasons of rainy and dry weather.

Nothing illustrates better the contradictions between economic globalisation and the relative powerlessness of states than the struggle under way to stave off the collapse of the euro and economic instability.

Clarence Frederick Ellis, CCH, former Chairman of the State Planning Secretariat and Supernumerary Deputy Governor of the Bank of Guyana, died on April 17, aged 80.

Poor absorption of food Actually, this malady has a scientific name: malabsorption syndrome.

The Kei-Shar’s FIDE Qualifying Tournament was a keenly contested event that brought out most of Guyana’s exemplary chess players.

Guyanese can give their input Wednesday On February 2, 2009, a letter from Mr Lloyd David, Public Relations Officer of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards, was published in the Stabroek News with the headline, ‘ISO has developed draft standard for social responsibility.’

Part1 By Dr Vineet Naja, MS(G.Surgery);MCh(Urology) (Consulting Urologist and Andrologist)Introduction Kidney stones are a common occurrence in the general population of Guyana.

-And a plan for Senior-Citizen Pensioners My age of caution and my preference not to rush to print or judgement with regard to unfolding public scandal and reports of corruption – alleged or real – rein in my ability to ‘buse out national figures with the gusto, alacrity and frequency with which others do.

* Experts say fresh look would open new drug avenues *Ageing research aims for longer health-span By Kate Kelland, Health and Science CorrespondentLONDON, (Reuters) – Is ageing a disease?

Khaled Hroub is Director of Cambridge University’s Arab Media Project and author of Hamas: Political Thought and Practice.

History This Week        No. 18/2010By Shammane Joseph This instalment gives a brief overview of the History of the British Guiana West Coast Railway from 1896 to 1971.

By Tarron Khemraj Introduction In the previous column, I argued that the relative stability of the exchange rate since around 2004 could be the result of moral suasion, which implies the authorities persuade the price leader – the trader which dominates the exchange rate formation – to set rates in line with the social objective of price stability.

Dr Bertrand Ramcharan, Ph.D. (LSE), Barrister-at-Law, is a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists and Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

In some measure, in some aspect, in whatever country you find yourself, life on a daily basis can be a source of anxiety – sometimes depressingly so.

By Yarimar Bonilla Yarimar Bonilla teaches anthropology at the University of Virginia.

Interviews by Tiffny Rhodius and photos by Orlando Charles This week we asked the man and woman in the street their thoughts on the ICC 20/20 series.

In the Diaspora By Yarimar Bonilla Yarimar Bonilla teaches anthropology at the University of Virginia.

Do you find, as I do, that as time passes you accommodate a vast sludge of useless information which remains stored in the brain for no purpose whatsoever?

By current standards, the Synergy dispute has lasted a long time, as talk and almost daily revelations continue without pause.