Daily Features

By Paul Harris

An assessment of the main economic changes which occurred in British Guiana between 1914 and 1950   By Clyde W Thierens In 1914 the sugar industry was still the dominant sector in British Guiana’s economy.

– Anna Husarska is Senior Policy Adviser at the International Rescue Committee.

By Martin Feldstein – Martin Feldstein, a professor of economics at Harvard, was formerly Chairman of President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisors and President of the National Bureau for EconomicCAMBRIDGE – The European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the euro are about to celebrate their tenth anniversary.

Sebastián Edwards, a Professor of Economics at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management, was the World Bank’s Chief Economist for Latin America from 1993-96.

The Sunday seawall lime Interviews by Melissa Charles with photos by Sara Bharrat This week we asked the man/ woman on the street their opinion on the Sunday seawall lime, given the complaints from neighbouring communities about the loud noise associated with it.

One life: so many bridges, so many lessonsAlissa Trotz is Director of Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto, and editor of the In the Diaspora column.

Adjustment time in Trinidad and Tobago Introduction It has been a challenging week for Trinidad and Tobago where crime seems to dominate the headlines in the dailies.

The vindication of Hypatia Currently its most venerable member, I am delighted to learn that the Georgetown Club has at last burst gloriously into, let us say, the 20th century and admitted women as full members.

At the heart of the crisis response: the US Troubled Assets Relief Program The United States is clearly at the epicentre of the global financial crisis and credit crunch.

The Caribbean is heading for a severe economic contraction (Executive Director of the Caribbean Council for Europe) Slowly, ever so slowly the Caribbean is coming to recognise that it is far from immune from the global economic crisis.

Kanyadaam: Statements on various issues A considerable amount of attention is being paid at the present time to the problems of domestic violence and domestic abuse. 

The map quest to your Pap test A weekly column prepared by Balwant Singh’s Hospital Inc.

Cannas are an eyecatcher In Britain, and I suspect in many other places on this planet, the doyenne of Indian cookery is a marvellous lady called Madhur Jaffrey.

Half-way point We have now passed the half-way mark of the National Championships and still a clear winner among the Seniors cannot be identified.

Ringworm ‘Ringworm’ has nothing to do with a worm. It is a fungus disease.

Water: The liquid of life As children growing in British Guiana we had few choices for drinking water.

Keeping him safe’ Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica.

– Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.