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Chess with Errol Tiwari Almost fifty years ago, the average age of a chess player was about 35 years.

Sir Robert Schomburgk and his Guyana explorations (1835-1839)By Tota C Mangar By far the most intensive and painstaking explorations of Guyana, the former colony of British Guiana, were those conducted in the third and fourth decades of the nineteenth century by the German, Sir Robert Herman Schomburgk.

Howard Stein, a professor in the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan, is a member of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue’s Africa Task Force and G-8 Working Group.

– Mehdi Khalaji, who studied for 14 years in seminaries in Qom, Iran, is a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East policy.

– Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne.

Parliamentarians should be nothing more than the people’s representatives (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 Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is Director of Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto, and edits the weekly In the Diaspora Column.

This week we asked the man/woman in the street if lie detectors should be used at workplaces to determine honesty and if they would be prepared to take a test Althea Edwards, Self-employed: ‘I don’t think that any company should be allowed to give their employees lie detector tests.

A crisis of credibility No easy remedy Behind the sound and fury in public debates, self-serving government pronouncements, and the studied misdirections and deceptions in statements made by various economic authorities, readers should be reminded that presently we are witnessing the confused economic responses of a state, whose essential dynamic continues to be a vehicle for criminal enterprise.

Stimulus package – to do or not to do? I had promised to write this week about the role in and implications of the Clico fiasco on the NBS and the NIS. 

Faithful to the causeI venture to suggest that there is no West Indian cause so sacred as the success of the West Indies cricket team.

Anglo-American rivalry and the Venezuela-Guyana border controversyCedric L Joseph  Anglo-American Diplomacy And The Re-Opening Of The Guyana-Venezuela Boundary Controversy, 1961-1966 (Trafford Publishers, 2008.

Suddenly, ‘crunch time’If this column has a doppelganger, it’s that of the NYT’s columnist Bob Herbert.

Floaters and posterior vitreous detachmentBy Dr Neeraj Jain, MD (Ophthalmology), DNB, MNAMS What are floaters?

Eye ailments Continued Eye infection in the newborn pups A couple of months ago, the Pet Corner column addressed the issue of Conjunctivitis – that inflammatory process of the membrane which covers the inner side of the eyelids and part of the surface of the eyeball.

The giant passion fruit has a spectacular flower Looking back over my records of A Gardener’s Diary I note that in March 1998 we were suffering a prolonged period of drought and were concerned about conserving all the water we could.

Enter a new super-power to the regionWhen Jamaica’s Usain Bolt effortlessly won the one hundred metres in the August 2008 Beijing Olympics it became one of the defining moments of an event that cemented China’s global presence in the minds of hundreds of million’s around the world.

Parliaments of the past -and Air Force One at Timehri!? Perhaps two Parliament-related incidents, quite disparate – and, to me, most unfortunate –prompted me to pen this piece.

Sally Satel is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine.

– Yuliya Tymoshenko is Prime Minister of Ukraine. By Yuliya Tymoshenko KYIV – Since World War II’s end, France has consistently risen to the challenge of restructuring Europe in times of crisis.