Daily Features

Introduction Last week Business Page began a discussion on the just concluded two-year US$6.7 million Guyana Threshold Country Plan/ Implementation Project (GTCP/IP) funded by the US Government Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

With an estimated 4 billion acres of forests worldwide covering 30 per cent of the earth’s land area, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has reported overall progress in recent years in the utilization of sustainable forest management practices.

By Dr Neeraj Jain, MD, DNB, MNAMS  (Ophthalmology) Glaucoma constitutes a diverse group of disorders associated with elevated intraocular pressure that culminate in a characteristic pattern of optic nerve atrophy, loss of visual field eventually leading to blindness.

Last week we published the first part of an article on physical activity and health, and this week we reproduce the second part.

This game is taken from the German Bundesliga, which is the strongest team championship in the world.

Well, dear readers, last week we concluded the huge topic associated with the ailments of the oral cavity.

No one should be in any doubt about the critical importance of Venezuela’s PetroCaribe programme.

Believe it or not the rain forests of the Amazon basin can be very dry places. 

America! Oh America! This is my briefest layman’s assessment of Guyana’s attempt – real or cosmetic – to decentralize socio-political, economic authority into the hands, minds and brains of the people who live throughout the length and breadth of our Blighted Republic.

Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi, a visiting professor of law at the Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, served as Iraq’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2004-2007 and was principal drafter of its interim constitution of 2004.

Mo Ibrahim is the founder and Chair of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.

By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA Introduction With local elections around the corner, I dedicate this essay to all of us who want to come together to make our nation a better place for everyone and especially our children.

Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.

By Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column On February 19th a motion was filed in Guyana’s high court to challenge a law that criminalized cross-dressing, and under which seven persons were arrested in 2009 and charged with wearing female attire.

When you’re listening to a good band, while your ear is caught by the lead instruments, or the singers, the foundation of the music is that combination of drums, bass, and chording instruments – what musicians call “the rhythm section”.

Interviews by Tiffny Rhodius and photos by Jules Gibson The 40th anniversary celebrations of Guyana as a Republic climaxed with the Mash Day parade last Tuesday and we asked the man and woman in the street their thoughts on this year’s celebrations.

In my column last Sunday I indicated that the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) recent assessment of the state of the world’s forests had observed that, on balance, progress is being made around the world in giving priority to the sustainable management of forests.

The blame always lies with someone else.  The recent Police Conference for Inspectors and Sergeants offered evidence of this worn-out routine. 

Cy Grant,  November 8, 1919 –  February 13, 2010Cy Grant had an extraordinary life experience with Britain that began in a village in Demerara, British Guiana, in November 1919 at the end of the First World War and ended in London on Saturday, February 13. 

Introduction It was interesting to see almost the entire Cabinet turn out on February 17 at a ceremony at the Georgetown Club to mark the end of the Guyana Threshold Country Plan/Implementation Project (GTCP/IP).