Daily Features

Ask the Consul Installment Eighty-eight The Consular Section of the U.S.

Dr Bertrand Ramcharan, Ph.D. (LSE), Barrister-at-Law, is a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists and Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Development Watch Part 2 By Tarron Khemraj Last week we underscored that the concept of macroeconomic stability – which is often touted as a success by IMF reports and pro-government commentators – is at best tenuous. 

Tuesday’s Economic Corner By Peter R. Ramsaroop Introduction: I have visited many areas that will be affected by the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS). 

Tracy Robinson is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies.

In the Diaspora By Cathal Healy-Singh (Cathal Healy-Singh is an Environmental Engineer who lives in Trinidad and Tobago.)

So It Go by David MartinsWe grow up in Guyana, and the Caribbean generally, with this notion of jumbie, soucoyant, ol’ higue, etc.

Interviews by Sara Bharrat and photos by Jules Gibson This week we asked the man/woman in the street if they have been following the GT&T Jingle Competition and who their favorite competitor was?

Wanted: A United Nations Economic Security Council G20 – leading the charge In last week’s column I argued that the global economic crisis had become very complex, involving immense human and social suffering, thereby constituting a grave threat to past global developmental efforts. 

The Allied Health Professions Bill The Parliament Office has been advertising the Allied Health Professions Bill 2009, which was committed to a Special Select Committee of the National Assembly.

A review of the Low Carbon Development Strategy Introduction To all Guyanese, from Cabinet to Canal # 1, the announcement that the people of Guyana are willing to act in placing our rainforests under “globally-verified forest and other land use governance standards and transparent, accountable deployment of forest payments” must have come as a great surprise, if not a shock.

The extraordinary value in everythingAll my life I have had an urge to preserve the extraordinary value of everything that I experience.

The law suit which threatens a nation It must be rare if not unique for a law suit to threaten the viability of a whole nation.

Introduction The Office of the Historian of the United States State Department recently published Volume 10 of ‘Foreign Relations with the United States’ covering the period 1969-1972.

Water, water everywhere?When, many years ago, VS Naipaul referred to the land of his birth as “the little island in the mouth of the Orinoco,” Trinidadians resented what they interpreted as an intentionally belittling description.

Ailments of the nose Continued from last week Difficult breathing in short-nosed dogs Certain breeds like the Pekinese, the Bulldog, Cocker Spaniels, Boston Terriers, and a ‘new’ type we are now calling the ‘Pom-Pek’ (you know, those dogs with faces looking as if they had a run in with a concrete wall and came out second with caved-in faces) seem to have a genetically-based predisposition to experience difficult breathing.

Planting bulbs in the lawn I have scribbled a few notes about tasks which most of us have to do at some time during the year, so here goes.

In November last year the Schomburgk Pavilion and pond were officially launched in the Botanic Gardens.

Preparing for the national championshipsWendell Muesa has won his third chess tournament for the year following his victory in the Sasha Cells eight-round swiss tournament.

Frankly Speaking          by A.A. Fenty– And thieving in the Kleptocracy Yes, my own July-August holidays laziness kicks in here today, but with a purpose.