Daily Features

The 8th Intra-Regional Central Bank Games were played last weekend at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall and the National Stadium.

By Dr Ritesh Kohli, MD (Internal Medicine Specialist) Flu is the common name for influenza, a virus that attacks the respiratory system.

Frankly Speaking… By A.A. Fenty And some Americana for immigrants To begin with, let me admit that at the most personal level, I‘ve long succumbed to my cynicism which has manifested itself in my reluctance to cast any vote for any party or leader around these days.

History This Week… No.13/2010 (PART 1) By Hazel Woolford This is the first in a two part series that explores the issues of climate change and the movement of people to Guiana.

By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Freedom in America will soon be a fading memory.

By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA Introduction Economic growth requires a partnership between the public and private sectors.

By Peter Singer Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora column On Saturday the Stabroek News carried a small report on a Guyanese doctor trained in Cuba (one of a larger group of 64) who had been posted to the Lethem Hospital.

To spend more than five minutes in a vehicle in Guyana is to realise that drivers here have contracted hornitis. 

Stabroek News found out last week how the man/woman in the street planned to pass the long Easter weekend.

I wish I could convey in particular to young people – whose mental appetites seem whetted so easily these days by the superficial, the transitory and the trashy – I wish I could convey to them the quiet depths, the delights, the leaping excitement of great poetry.

Whenever the President’s men gather, there is lots of cursing, long intervals of laughter, and more cursing. 

Part 4 Introduction In part 3 last week dealing with GuySuCo’s 2008 annual report, I opined that Ms Geeta Singh-Knight’s role in the collapse of Clico the insurance giant, and the loss to Guyana of close to G$7 billion made her unfit to be a director of the state-owned entity.

Recap In last week’s column I made a digression to deal with a few issues raised by Ambassador Brattskar, head of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative and the lead negotiator for the Norwegian government as they were reported in the Stabroek News, (March 21, 2010).

By Dr Anirban Banerjee, MS, MRCS (Consultant Surgeon) In my last article we discussed about hernia especially about groin hernias.

‘Our money, our rights’ was the theme chosen by Consumers International for World Con-sumer Rights Day 2010.

The Bank of Guyana is currently hosting the 8th Intra-Regional Central Bank Games comprising nine sporting disciplines.

Guyanese artist Stanley Greaves’s recent painting called ‘Easter Kite’ provokes a number of questions, says Leila Persaud.

Continued Surely I should have found something less taxing and more frivolous to share with you on this good Easter Sunday morning.

Everyone will have come across the term ‘old crock’; it is generally applied in a disparaging way to a variety of conditions.