Daily Features

Pet Corner Conclusion   The dog with impaired vision I keep explaining to anyone who would listen that dogs have a pronounced sense of hearing and an acute sense of smell.

Health By Dr Pankaj Kshatriya, MD (Physician) Many people who smoke, suffer from breathing problems and lung cancer.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Guantanamo military  prison guards call it a “cocktail,” the mix of faeces, urine and  spit that inmates hurl at them and that dramatizes the  soldiers’ view that they are serving on a battlefield.

Thieves at the top – But why no response to Thomas and Ram?

Reasons for the Rapid Growth of a Black peasantry in British Guiana and Trinidad immediately after 1838 (Part One) By Clyde W.

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

Christine Lagarde is France’s Minister of Finance. By Christine Lagarde PARIS – The World Monetary and Economic Conference took place in London 76 years ago, in June 1933, with 66 countries meeting to put an end to the unfolding monetary disorder and trade wars while trying to draw the lessons of the Great Depression.

Janet Jagan:  An Important and Complex Political Legacy Cary Fraser teaches at Penn State University, and is a regular contributor to the Trinidad and Tobago Review.

By Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States Next month, President Obama will travel to Trinidad and Tobago to meet his colleagues from across the Western Hemisphere at the Summit of the Americas.

photos by Jules Gibson This week we asked the man/woman in the street if they believed in the supernatural and whether they’d had such an experience.

Guyana and the wider world Smelling the stench In recent years, individuals who have had their ears close to the ground in Caricom’s financial, accounting, business, professional, and other expert circles, could not avoid being aware of the sordid doubts and deep misgivings swirling around corporate governance at the Stanford Financial Group.

Ian on Sunday When you go well past three score years and ten you are in overtime and a penalty shoot-out looms which you know you cannot win.

Latin View by Andres Oppenheimer Don’t get me wrong: I’m more than enthusiastic about the upcoming April 17 Summit of the Americas that will mark the first collective meeting between President Barack Obama and Latin American leaders.

The View from Europe (Executive Director of the Caribbean Council for Europe) Washington is a city of think tanks, each vying to influence policy.

Health A weekly column prepard by Dr Balwant Singh’s Hospital Inc.

Violence against women is not confined to a specific culture, region, or country, or to a particular group of women within a society.

Consumer Corner The 01 February 2009 issue of Codex News, which is published by the Codex Secretariat, Guyana National Bureau of Standards, carries the headline ‘What you need to know about genetically modified foods (organisms) (GMOs).’

A Gardener’s Diary It is hard to believe but in spite of promises from various friends I have still not acquired a plant of the breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis, which used to be Artocarpus communis).

Pet Corner More miscellaneous eye problems 1)  Dermoid cysts This is a tumour (not a malignant one though).