Daily Features

Health-A weekly column prepared by Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital Dr Ritesh Kohli, MD – (Internal Medicine Specialist) When you wake up, you should feel well rested and ready to start your day.

A Gardener’s Diary I’d be interested to know whether most of us propagate plants just to save money, and this becomes very satisfying when we realise just how easy it is, and how inexpensive it is.

The View from Europe Is it possible for markets to serve the needs of the people as much as those of companies and shareholders?

Business Page Introduction Perhaps not surprisingly the only feedback I received to last week’s column on tax evasion and tax avoidance was from persons who would generally be considered among the better off.

Latin View By Andres Oppenheimer MEXICO CITY — If you look at the culture pages in Mexico’s newspapers these days, there is little question about what’s the talk of the town in literary circles — old men having sex with young girls.

Ian On Sunday In any given situation we assume that people, including ourselves, will act sensibly.

By  Pandit Suresh Sugrim, NJASM, Inc. Humanitarian Mission Pandit Suresh Sugrim extends love and greetings to every human hearts as we celebrate the festival of Light (Deepavali) and asks at this time we renew the commitment to think of all those less fortunate individuals especially the children and seniors.

By Dr. Latchman P Kissoon The festival of Diwali has been celebrated for ages and grows in attraction by the year.

Legal Permanent Residents and Returning Residents Installment 93 Q: I am a Legal Permanent Resident (LPR) of the United States so can I travel freely between Guyana and the United States?

Oh yes, you’ll discover it easily. I tire of the national goings–on;  the “issues of national, significance”.

History this week – No 2009/36 Part 5 By Shammane Joseph This is the fifth instalment in a series of articles which gives a brief overview of the History of the British Guiana railway with particular reference to the Georgetown-Mahaica link.

Development WatchBy Tarron Khemraj Introduction In my previous column (Sep 30, 2009), I underscored the important distinction between competitive advantage and comparative advantage.

Tuesday’s Economic Corner By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA INTRODUCTION: The key factors to the economic development and sustainment of any country are simple and the same from the Egyptian Empire to the American Empire. 

In the Diaspora (This is one of a series of weekly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean) By Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is editor of the weekly In the Diaspora ColumnLast week Tuesday (October 6th), ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was interviewed on Canadian national radio, speaking through a translator and by phone from the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, where he has been holed up since he managed to slip back into the country.

From a youth, growing up at Vreed-en-Hoop and going to school at Main Street and then Saints, I read a lot.

Photos and interviews by Sara Bharrat GuyExpo, Guyana’s largest trade fair, began on October 1 and ended on October 6.

Why Trade Matters At times of global economic and financial crisis keeping trade open matters in this the new age of explosive globalisation.

Answer: the thickness of a prison wall Business Page That is how the former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK, Denis Healey defined the two related practices but which have distinctly separate consequences.

Consumer Concerns September 20-26, 2009 was regarded as Child Protection Week.

Ian On Sunday Towards the end of life – and when you are seventy-six and counting you are not very distant from the end – you become more reflective.