Daily Features

Ear ailments (Conclusion)  Deafness An animal can be born deaf (congenital deafness) or it could acquire the deafness during the course of its life.

Is growth limitless? From time to time, leaders from the financial services industry are invited by a well known intermediary to brief prime ministers and key ministers from the Caribbean. 

When it comes to colonial governors, many are reviled and few are admired.

The silent majority Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica.

A player to watchWendell Meusa, a 21-year-old Guyanese who has been living in Barbados for ten years, and who recently returned to Guyana, gave an impressive display of chess talent during last Sunday’s one day rapid tournament that was held at the YMCA.

Cut down your Acalyphas on a tree-year cycle It is my experience living in the quiet backwater of New Providence that a few yards can make a whole lot of difference in terms of weather.

Labelling and the cigarette industry The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) will be hosting a public consultation on “Specification for the labelling of retail packages of tobacco products” on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 from 8:30h to 12:00h at Hotel Tower, Main Street, Georgetown, where a decision will be made on the new and improved Guyana standards for the packaging and labelling of tobacco products in Guyana.

– Mira Kamdar is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and a fellow at the Asia Society.

Enforcement and prosecution   The Hustle, the “Runnings” It was just six months ago that I wrote about an issue I described as the “Enforce-ment hustle”.

Rudy Rabbinge is a Dutch agriculture expert who until 2007 was a member of the Dutch Senate.

– Paul J. Crutzen received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1995 by Paul J Crutzen For the past three centuries, humans’ effects on the global environment have escalated.

So It Go by David Martins Now that I’m living in Guyana again, I’ll be writing a regular column for Stabroek News.

By Sara Bharrat with photos by Jules GibsonThis week we asked the man/woman in the street when they’d last written a letter and whether they sent text messages?

IN the Diaspora (This is one of a series of fortnightly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guy-ana and the Carib-bean) By Nigel Westmaas Nigel Westmaas is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College, New York, and is a former WPA executive member The recent passing of renowned historian, linguist, anthropologist, and philosopher of the first order, Ivan van Sertima, allows for some preliminary musings on the subject of Guyanese philosophy, its tradition and “acceptance.”

The IMF Consultation on the Guyana economy in 2008 Introduction Using its stock-in-trade jargon the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund in a Public Information Notice issued on May 19, 2009 gave a very favourable report on the performance of the Guyana economy for 2008.

Hiccups on the road to economic recovery! Last week’s column referred to two important ongoing debates concerning the future course of the global economic crisis.

Professor Richard Allsopp, January 23, 1923 –  June 3, 2009Professor Stanley Reginald Richard Allsopp, CHB, PhD, retired Reader and Honorary Professor of Caribbean Lexicography at the University of the West Indies, died on June 3, 2009, aged 86.

A new AmericaWayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica.

Spearmint and old crocks In England it is called ‘flaming June.’

What has happened to the Doha Round? David Jessop is the Executive Director of the Caribbean Council for Europe What has happened to the Doha Round at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the multilateral trade negotiation that was meant to encourage development through liberalising trade in goods and services?