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Our low- carbon future

Nicholas Stern is Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a member of the UK House of Lords.

A wistful look seems to suggest that this male dog might be giving up hope that he would ever find a permanent home. Will some kind animal lover who can offer him a good home please come down to the GSPCA and make him happy again. (He has been neutered.)
A wistful look seems to suggest that this male dog might be giving up hope that he would ever find a permanent home. Will some kind animal lover who can offer him a good home please come down to the GSPCA and make him happy again. (He has been neutered.)

Oral ailments

Enlarged gums ContinuedPet Corner Last week we placed focus on sore gums (gingivitis).

Errol Tiwari

Fighting chess

Chess It was fighting chess throughout the National Qualification Tournament to determine the participants for the National Championships.

Guyana’s Delayed Political Independence

History this week –  No. 2009/35 (Part 2) Estherine AdamsThis is the second instalment in a series of articles which aims at explaining, briefly, why the grant of political independence, which was expected earlier, was not realised in British Guiana until May 1966. 

Dave Martins

Just asking

So It Go By Dave Martins From time to time I notice something, or experience something that leaves me wondering in a kind of bemused or intrigued way about it. 

Palestinians simmer, but no Intifada for now

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Peace talks with Israel are in  deadlock and tear gas and rocks are flying at Jerusalem’s holy  sites, but for all the mounting frustration in the West Bank  talk of a Third Intifada seems premature to most Palestinians.

Guyana Times already getting over 19% of state ads

-despite being in business just over a year, dubious market penetration Just over a year after it was launched, the Guyana Times is already receiving over 19% of state ads each month when Stabroek News was not given a single one for 17 months because the government alleged that it did not have sufficient readership.

Coping with crisis: trade matters

In the coming weeks I shall seek to establish why it is I believe that trade policy, at the global and national levels, represents the third and final important lesson to come out of recent worldwide efforts to cope with the global economic recession, financial crisis and credit crunch (squeeze).

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