Daily Features

Ian On Sunday

Leaders and language: There is a close correlation between the inspiring use of language and getting great deeds done.

Guyana and the wider world

Budget 2009: From ‘voodoo’ to ‘make-believe’ economics ‘Voodoo economics’ Economics is essentially a discipline based on commonsensical principles and ideas.

Pet Corner

Eye ailments Continued So far, we have discussed problems associated only with the ‘outer eye’ (the eyelids, the cornea, etc). 

Consumer Concerns

Women’s cricket is still neglected In April 2007 Terry Holder, Public Relations Officer of the Guyana Cricket Board sent a letter to the Stabroek News concerning women’s cricket.

The Obama era

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

Dr Joshua Ramsammy

Obituary

Joshua Ramsammy, April 5, 1928-February 11, 2009 Dr Joshua Reuben Ramsammy, CCH, former senior lecturer and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Guyana, died on February 11, aged 80.

David Khan and Kenrick Braithwaite concentrate on their game last Sunday at the beginning of the Topco Juice Mashramani tournament hosted by the Guyana Chess Federation. The tournament is sponsored exclusively by Demerara Distillers Limited under the Topco Juice brand. At the end of three rounds, National champion Kriskal Persaud is leading among the seniors and Khalid Gajraj among the juniors. The remaining four rounds to conclude the tournament will be played on Sunday, March 1.

Chess

Kamsky v Topalov The FIDE Candidates’ qualifying match to determine a challenger for world champion Vishy Anand between Bulgaria’s Veselin Topalov and the USA’s Gata Kamsky is under way.

Frankly Speaking

Rebellion, Republicanism, and yes, Mashramani Black History? African Heritage? I was in my mid-twenties, a school teacher and reasonably conscious of our local politics when Forbes Burnham opted for a Republican Guyana in 1970.

History This Week

Reasons for planters in the British Caribbean opposing amelioration proposals of the British Gov’t after 1822 (Part 2) By Clyde W.

The morning after Israel’s vote

Fania Oz-Salzberger is Professor and Chair of Modern Israel Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and Director of the Posen Research Forum for Political Thought at the Faculty of Law, Univeristy of Haifa, Israel.

Josh Ramsammy, in a Sunday Graphic picture on January 2, 1972, about to enter the car in which he was shot three months earlier

In the Diaspora – A memory of Josh Ramsammy

Nigel Westmaas is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College, New York, and was a former WPA executive member By Nigel WestmaasNo one column or no one individual can piece together the many dimensions of Joshua Ramsammy’s life.

Guyana and the wider world

Taking their toll:  external shocks and the Guyana economyIn last week’s column I had introduced the first of eleven economic shocks/challenges that rocked the Guyana economy in the second half of 2008.

Ian On Sunday

Anxiety grows in meLet me make another trawl in the deep sea of reading which lies all around us and see what bright catch comes up.

The View From Europe

The new tourism market is becoming more segmentedAcross the Caribbean, governments and the tourism industry are developing new strategies and initiatives aimed at trying to offset the fall in visitor arrivals that most nations expect from April onwards as a consequence of the global economic crisis.

Consumer concerns

Explanatory Memorandum for the Integrity Commission ActWe have already noted that the Explanatory Memorandum of a bill gives reasons for the introduction of a new bill.

The political caution which served Obama well in the campaign may now be his Achilles heel.

The Obama era

What’s in a word?History teaches that, in times of crisis, ingrained prejudices can, by themselves, make all the difference between success and ruin.

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