Daily Features

The World Team Championship 2010 was contested during the period January 3-14 in Bursa, Turkey, and comprised teams from Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Israel, USA, India, Brazil, Egypt, Turkey and Greece.

During the Easter weekend, the Bank of Guyana will be hosting the 8th Intra-regional Central Bank Games in Georgetown, and chess is one of the disciplines to be featured.

Part I By Dr Anirban Banerjee, MS, MRCS (Consultant Surgeon) What is cancer?

Frankly Speaking…By A.A. Fenty Oh, poor doctor Narine Singh This may be regarded as a teaser with respect to the 2010 Mashramani festival for which preparations are currently in full swing.

History this week… No. 2/2010 By Cecilia  McAlmont Introduction It was thirty years ago (in the month of February to be exact) that the party then in power, the People’s National Congress (PNC) introduced a new constitution called the People’s Constitution.

Introduction It is obvious to all of us that the current PPP government has shed all of Dr Jagan’s values of taking care of the working class.

In the Diaspora By George Mentore George Mentore teaches anthropology at the University of Virginia Imagine this country, really as our own, to do with as we pleased. 

Interviews and photos by Shabna Ullah This week on What the People Say we asked residents of Berbice to comment on what they are hoping for in the New Year.

You will hear me say from to time that one of the things that bothers me, wherever I find it, is shoddiness, and the truth is you find it a lot. 

Every moment in our lives is embedded in the extraordinary architecture of our minds.

The Banks Group Comment Ram and McRae has identified and announced as one of the activities and initiatives for its 25th anniversary being observed this year, an award for the best Annual Report by any Guyanese company.

As I have pointed out earlier, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Government of Guyana and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway and its associated Joint Concept Note are best evaluated in the context of the outcomes of the recent United Nations Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change and global warming.

By Dr Santosh Mhetre, MD  (Paediatrics) What is gastroenteritis (commonly called gastro)?

Last week we published the provisions of the National Insurance and Social Security (Amendment) Bill 2009.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – US law enforcement agencies are reporting a surprising drop in crime last year,  with homicide rates in some major cities plunging to levels not  seen in four decades, despite a deep and prolonged recession.

The annual Hastings tournament ended in a four-way tie for first place between grandmasters Mark Hebden, British champion David Howell, Andrei Istratescu of Romania and Romain Edouard of France.

Continued Laryngitis The larynx is the organ (really a cavity) in the upper part of the windpipe (trachea) which has cartilaginous walls, and which when moved by associated muscles will vary the tension of the vocal cords, and hence the quality of the sound produced.

By George Soros NEW YORK – We are at a moment when the range of uncertainties facing the global economy is unusually wide.

To almost no one’s surprise the United Nations two-week long Climate Change Conference held in December in Copenhagen ended without any binding agreement being reached on how to regulate global carbon emissions.

Visitors to our gardens include birds and small mammals which make their homes with us.