Daily Features

Fiddling while Rome burnsWayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica.

You can sterilize loam yourself In Guyana seeds germinate very quickly; the climate is so perfect, sometimes it can occur in just a few days, and in no time at all you are replanting seedlings into boxes or pots, and in the case of some seedlings, straight into borders.

Writing for the popular audience By Al Creighton’sBut Naughton Henry was very much determined to exploit whatever other devices he could to appeal to a popular audience. 

Functional respect for an office On Presidents….And Other Personalities By Allan Fenty I feel entitled to a brief post-birthday waffle today.

Eusi Kwayana and National Politics in British Guiana(Part 2)By  Estherine Adams This is the second instalment in a series of articles which gives a brief overview of Eusi Kwayana’s involvement in national politics in British Guiana between 1950 and 1961.

– Joseph E. Stiglitz, professor of economics at Columbia University, and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, is co-author, with Linda Bilmes, of The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Costs of the Iraq Conflict.

Ian Deary is Professor of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh.

(This is one of a series of fortnightly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean) Dr Neville Trotz, Science Adviser to the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, served as a member of the IPCC in the capacity of a Review Editor of Chapter 16 of the Fourth Assessment Report on Small Island Developing States.

This week we asked the man/woman in the street what they had to say about the police campaign to remove offensive slogans and names from mini-buses.

Economic challenges in the first half of 2008: Rising food, fuel prices and the bio-fuels bubble In this week’s column I shall begin a review of Guyana’s economic performance during 2008, principally through evaluating the impact of three major shocks and economic challenges which rocked the economy during the first half of that year.

Integrity Commission on shaky groundConclusionRe-cap Last week we ended the column with the offices listed in Schedule I to the act, the holders of which must automatically file with the Integrity Commission, declarations of their income, assets and liabilities of themselves, their spouses and minor unmarried children by June 30 of the following year.

The love of reading lasts foreverThe year 2008 slipped by with devastating swiftness and already another year is well advanced.

De-globalisation through inertia?In these last weeks, a new word has entered the English language.

Two acts in one bill The title of the bill dealing with driving under the influence of alcohol may have puzzled some consumers.

Obama’s Muslim tossAs the reader may have noticed, what usually passes for the real world has wasted no time in brusquely overrunning the celebratory mood of Barack Obama’s inauguration.

Ailments of the eye(Continued) Last week, we discussed problems associated with the third eyelid (the nictitating membrane). 

We reproduce below excerpts from the address given by Dr Ian McDonald at the Frank Collymore Literary Awards in Barbados, on January 10, 2009 We must never for a moment doubt that it is absolutely vital that a nation should foster and honour its writers.

Diagnosis of typhoid fever: Revisiting the Widal testBy Dr Amrish Kamboj, MD (Pathology) Typhoid fever is a bacterial disease, caused by Salmonella typhi.

Bats can be garden friendly Since early childhood when I lived in the Lake District of England in an old farmhouse I have been afraid of bats.

What freedom of information? -Reminiscences and Repasts I’m still in places where it’s cold.