Daily Features

Feline Viral Respiratory Disease Complex  aka Feline Influenza General comments Ailments associated with the respiratory tract are pretty common – and understandably so.

We need to find a quick solution to the problem of the conditions in lock-ups, jails Did you read the article ‘Brickdam lock-ups unfit for humans, former detainee says’? 

Personal odyssey Among the most recent new books of poetry is In a Boston Night  poems  by Guyanese poet and fiction writer Sasenarine Persaud, published by TSAR in Canada in 2008. 

Blind arts teacher a beacon of hope to others visually impaired “Being blind does not mean that it’s the end of the world, neither does it mean that a blind person cannot achieve his or her fullest potential,” says Mrs Ingrid Donna Daphnee Waithe-Peters.

Bougainvilleas and ixoras love hot,dry weather For quite a few weeks the weather has been blisteringly hot, and no one should be surprised that their bougainvilleas are flowering prolifically.

The dayworld and the nightworld So it’s here at last, ‘the most important election in our lifetime,’ after a gruelling campaign from which, however, few could look away for long, since moment after moment seemed filled with such significance, both for the US and the world.

-From the Labour Party to FITUG – and ‘Burning Spear” In The White House?

The beginnings of rice cultivation in Guyana (Part 1)By Winston McGowanThis article has been prompted by a recent Government Information Agency (GINA) press release which stated that next month a Rice Festival will be hosted at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence.

Lawlessness and order– one month of crimes Ok, all you people behaving badly stop!

Ban Ki-moon is Secretary-General of the United Nations. By Ban Ki-moon NEW YORK – Amid the pressures of the global financial crisis, some ask how we can afford to tackle climate change.

John Delury is director of the China Boom Project at the Asia Society, New York.

This week we asked the man and woman in the street about the eating habits of Guyanese.

Walter Rodney, October 1968 and the Caribbean Quest for Self Expression and Self Emancipation (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)By David Hinds October 16 marked the 40th anniversary of the so-called Rodney riots that accompanied the banning from Jamaica of Walter Rodney, the eminent historian, scholar, thinker and revolutionary.

Curbing corruption: The Corruption Perception IndexConclusion Introduction Today we conclude this three-part article arising out of the publication of the 2008 Corruption Perception Index of Transparency International which ranked Guyana at a lowly 126 out of a total of 180 countries surveyed, with a score of 2.6 out of 10.

EPA, sign or else: Exploding the myth of a partnership of equalsPredictably, the opening act of the increasingly sordid saga of the African Caribbean Pacific group (ACP) – European Commission (EC) – EPAs has come to a tawdry conclusion with two recent developments in relation to the Cariforum-EC, EPA.

When one hears of an epidemic, what comes to mind almost immediately is an extremely prevalent disease spreading throughout the population in a locality.

The complex value of the wordI love poetry. It is the quiet passion of my life.

Bolts from the blue On Saturday October 18, two new bills hit consumers like bolts from the blue. 

Little government, private sector awareness in the region of recession implications Three weeks ago there was an almost tangible sense of fear in Europe.

A dramatic spike in support for Obama Last week, in a gun store in West Virginia, sales abruptly went through the roof.