Daily Features

Lately I made a visit up the great Essequibo to rest the body, refresh the mind and remind the soul of the beauty in this world.

Continued Dry mouth Last week, we described the condition of the increased production of saliva (hypersalivation or Ptyalism) which was characterized by profuse drivelling and drooling.

Carlos Gervasoni is Professor of Political Science at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Tale of another crossing Last year, Brigid Wells, a descendant of the British doctor who sailed with the first Indian immigrants to this country on the Whitby in 1838, visited Guyana.

There is nothing sillier than sticking a handful of leaves into your mouth and setting fire to them.

By Dr Rishu Agarwal, MD (Pathology) The pap smear also called a pap test is the standard test used for early detection of cancer, and precancerous cells of the cervix.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Frankly Speaking… By A.A. Fenty So eleven days from today “they”, we celebrate – or observe – the fortieth year since our Guyana changed from the British monarchy’s domain to our fully Guyanese, Constitutional Republican status and freedom.

History This Week – No. 6/2010 By Cecilia McAlmont Introduction Frustrated by the biased representation or no representation of blacks in American history books, the Harvard Scholar, Dr.

By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA If yuh plant plantain, yuh can’t reap cassava. 

By Honor Ford-Smith The first time I met Rex Nettleford was when he came to our Kingston High school in 1968 around the time of the Rodney uprising to speak to our 6th form about Black Power.  

In years past, hearing outside about my country’s difficulties, I would come home to Guyana with Tradewinds to play music, or just to visit, always concerned that I would find a joyless, dispirited people.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Guyana’s Republican status and 40 years of celebrating Mashramani.

An eight-page, abridged version of Ram & McRae’s Focus on the 2010 Budget will appear in Thursday’s Stabroek News.

Local government elections are coming later this year, possibly as early as April.

I trust that readers who have been following my rather extended discussion on lessons to be learnt from the failed Copenhagen Climate Change Conference will agree that a careful assessment of the LCDS and the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Government of Guyana and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway must be located in the broader context of global negotiations to complete an agreement on climate change and global warming.

By Dr Amit Verma, MD (Anaesthesiology) The word anaesthesia comes from a Greek word meaning absence of sensation.

A landlord refuses to allow her tenant to install a meter in his apartment. 

The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss.

Phyllis Carter, December 9, 1932 – January 28, 2010 Phyllis Carter, née Howard, widow of the National Poet Martin Carter and member of the Committees of the National Gallery of Art and the Cheshire Home, died on January 28 aged 77.