Daily Features

Traveling With Children (Part I) My husband will be traveling to the U.S.

Celebrating 100 years of public library service: A Historical Perspective of the National Library of Guyana By Gwyneth George and Gillian Thompson This article is the first installment in a two-part series that gives a historical perspective of the development of the Public Library Service in Guyana.

The author is the Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development, and Director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

Vandana Shiva is an Indian feminist and environmental activist. She is the founder/director of Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology.

– Robert Skidelsky, a member of the British House of Lords, is Professor emeritus of political economy at Warwick University, author of a prize-winning biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes, and a board member of the Moscow School of Political Studies.

Guadeloupe: Chronology of a Strike Thanks to Pablo Morales, editor of the  NACLA Report on the Americas (www.nacla.org),

What are some of the issues of concern you face in your area?

Guyana and the Wider World Next in importance to the damaging effects of the global economic crisis on Caricom’s exports of goods and services, and possibly also public and private investment flows to the region, I predict that when the information is finally forthcoming, the contagion effects of the global crisis on the region’s financial sector will be the most devastating.

Ian on Sunday Running anything – whether it is a national government, vast state industry, world-circling multi-national, small family business, or private club – involves making choices.

International Viewpoint By Jonathan Powers Of all the words said and written about torture in the current debate very few have bothered to look up the history of the birth in 1984 of the UN’s Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

A Gardener’s Diary ( by John Warrington) At home in New Providence my own answer to the energy-sapping heat which we get from about 9am is to start work early (at approximately 5.30 am) when the air is like wine and really hard work is not a strain at all.

The View from Europe It is not easy to obtain accurate and up-to-date statistics on the value of the food that the Caribbean imports, whether to feed its own population or the many visitors who come to the region each year.

Consumers Concerns ( Elieen Cox) Consumers living in the city of Georgetown and the towns of Guyana do not appreciate how fortunate they are to have backyards in which they can plant some vegetables and fruits.

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

Chess (with Errol Tiwari)What is a grandmaster? Where did the term ‘grandmaster’ come from?

Pet Corner (Dr Stever Surujbally) Continued Tick infestation on the ear Throughout the year, it is possible to find ticks abounding on the ear flap (Pinna), and to a lesser degree in the ear canal (ticks do not wander deep into the ear canal).

Capitalism –for and against workers...So, how “polarised” are we?Even as I suspect that my typical economically–challenged working class employees, have little time to consider intellectually/analytically, the profundities of systems, theories and ideologies, as they fight to survive daily, I still share with them these thoughts on (practical) capitalism and its challenges these days.

History of the British Guiana Railway  System– Georgetown to Mahaica (Part 3) By Shammane Joseph This is the third 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.

Alissa Trotz is from Guyana and teaches Caribbean Studies and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.