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Gingivitis (Sore gums) Continued Last week, it was promised that we would continue our discussion on gingivitis (sore gums) with the treatment of this ailment.

For decades Europe has sought to establish an overarching policy relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Rio de Janeiro’s successful bid to host the Olympics in 2016 crowns Brazil’s remarkable rise over the past decade from a near basket case to an economic and diplomatic heavyweight.

– Peer Steinbrück is Germany’s Minister of Finance. by Peer Steinbrück BERLIN – What went wrong with global financial markets?

Struggling with my pride and patriotism As one born within these Guyana borders who decided to let family go (most reluctantly) and live all my life here where I even have the outline of my own final farewell service to take place in Georgetown, I know I have a right to criticize and lament what my only native land has become.

– Jean-Paul Fitoussi is Professor of economics at Sciences-po and President of OFCE (Sciences-po Center for Economic Research, Paris).

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – “Things develop ceaselessly,” said Chairman Mao Zedong in 1956, noting how much China had changed in 45 years.

– Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.

Development WatchBy Tarron Khemraj Introduction The National Competitiveness Strategy (hereafter NCS or the strategy) paper was completed in 2006 (see website: http://www.summit.org.gy/ncs.html).

By Bernd Debusmann When Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderon, ordered 2,500 troops and federal agents into border city Ciudad Juarez 17 months ago to tamp down drug violence, the monthly murder rate ran at an average of 66.

Tuesday’s Economic Corner By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA Introduction: On July 21, 2009, I wrote a column titled, “Low Carbon-Measuring the Economic Impact”, where I concluded that Guyana needs to retool its LCDS to fit with a national consensus on a national strategy developed with the involvement of all stakeholders, and incorporating additional input such as the Guyana 21 framework.

– John O’ Brennan is Director of the Centre for the Study of Wider Europe (www.widereurope.ie

By Pamela Cox Pamela Cox is the World Bank’s regional vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Photos and interviews by Cathy Richards Shelley Boston –  ‘I have been living in this community for over 25 years now and back in the day when you had the white people running things, things were good; now things have deteriorated a lot.

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 Honor Ford-Smith and Alissa Trotz Honor Ford-Smith teaches in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Canada.

For any practitioner of the arts, the question of censorship, of what is acceptable for public display and what is not, has always been on the table, and societies down through the ages have been grappling with this issue. 

Business Page Introduction How can a financial institution that just a few months ago boasted about a “liquidity of 40% of the total assets or 47% of members’ funds, a position exceeding the approved industry standard” – whatever that means – suddenly start telling current and potential loan customers to come back in six to eight months time?

Ian On Sunday At thirteen, I think it was, I was reading love poetry.

Guyana and the wider world Optimism The current state of the global economic crisis, one year after the financial meltdown of last September (2008), provides a crucial backdrop for consideration of the third, and final lesson to be learnt from global and national efforts to cope with economic recession, financial crisis and the credit squeeze.

To change an established street name is not something which is ever lightly done in any civilized country.