Former national junior chess champion Taffin Khan holds the lead in the Trophy Stall Chess Tournament after four rounds with the maximum four points, ahead of a field which includes the national champion Wendell Meusa.
A Guyanese returned to Guyana recently and was horrified when he saw the state of Georgetown, a city that used to be the pride of the West Indies.
Frankly Speaking…By A.A. Fenty *In the year I was born… Come bear with my brief waffle on a subject which might well-find me out of my depth on this anniversary day.
History This Week – No.4/2010 By Dr. Mellissa Ifill This article is the second in a two part series that examines the transition from the private to the public model of accumulation during the immediate post independence period.
Ask the Consul – Installment Ninety-Six The U.S. Embassy welcomes information from concerned citizens who are aware of visa fraud.
By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA Overview We the citizens must have a tax cut in 2010.
In The Diaspora By Anil Persaud Anil Persaud is a historian with the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.
Living here again, a week doesn’t go by without someone asking what has struck me about life in Guyana compared to life outside.
To mark the observance of men’s week, we asked the man and the woman in the street if they thought men are living up to their responsibility in the home and in society.
Setting up of two funds Occasioned by the walkout of the opposition from the National Assembly as it considered Supplementary Appro-priation (No.3 of 2009) Bill 2010, for $8,245,758,278, some of which had already been spent (Contingen-cies) and to be spent (Supplementary Appropriations), I began an examination of the whole business of the constitution and the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act 2003 (FMAA).
In a recent column I remembered my old friend HL ‘Bertie’ Taitt, one of a group of us who regularly met for rum, curry lunch and unending talk more than forty years ago.
Thus far over the past two weeks I have highlighted in these columns what I believe are six very important lessons, which should be learnt from the recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) held in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Part II By Dr Anirban Banerjee, MS, MRCS (Consultant Surgeon) In continuation of our discussion on cancer, this week we will look at the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
The collapse of CLICO has left a number of senior citizens with the problem of maintaining their former standard of living.
The January Trophy Stall chess tournament promises a turn-out of the country’s strongest chess players. The
Continued Tonsillitis Let us first understand what tonsils are. You may have had a nail pierce your sole, and the result of that is a swelling in the inguinal area (the ‘groin’ as we call it).
By Michel Rocard PARIS – The United Nations’ General Assembly is the world’s only body in which all countries vote, with majority rule prevailing.
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