Daily Features

Introduction Over the years this column has reported on its fair share of scandals in the financial world, often in the biggest this and biggest that.

How are the global economic reverses channelled to Caricom economies? Catching cold!

‘Open the clenched fist of the past’ It happens all the time in small, closely-knit groups – cabinets, party executives, boards of directors, church congregations or club committees.

In the present crisis national social partnerships have value A few days ago something quite extraordinary happened.

Ivanchuk v Leko A second rapid chess match between grandmasters Ivanchuk and Leko was held a few days ago in Mukachevo, Ukraine.

Israel in overtime Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica.

Diseases of the cornea We last dealt with conjunctivitis, an inflammatory process of the membrane which covers the inner side of the eyelids and part of the surface of the eyeball, (Pet Corner January 4, 2009).

Bird wive and mistletoe are relativesFor years I have had questions about an apparent disease on the underside of the leaves of the breadfruit fern, so named because of its similarity to the leaf shape of the breadfruit tree.

Are children really fooled? Santa Claus soared into the headlines of the Stabroek News in the early days of December.

Breast milk… best milk By Dr Santosh Mhetre, MD  (Paediatrics) This is especially for all new mothers and women who are planning a pregnancy.

– Joseph S. Nye Jr. is Distin-guished Service Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Govern-ment and author, most recently, of The Powers to Lead.

Mashramani 2009 survives CARIFESTA 10 – And the other side of entertainment Naturally, it had and has to.

The quest for democratisation in late 19th and early 20th centuries in British Guiana By Dr.

Kenneth Rogoff is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and was formerly chief economist at the IMF.

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

American Citizen Services Installment 73 Q: I am a U.S. citizen but do not have a U.S.

Expectations for the New Year This week we asked the man/woman in the street about their expectations for themselves in the New Year and what they expect the Government to do for the country in the 2009.

Afro-Guyanese and Rice By Wazir Mohammed Wazir Mohamed spent the formative years of his life as a community and political worker, and is engaged in academic research to find answers to Guyana’s seemingly intractable ethnic dilemma.