Daily Features

Continued We said last week that, in addition to a few other infectious agents, two virus groups are primarily involved in this Respi-ratory Disease Complex that affects cats.

Ministerial Power, Hopeless Poor-Publisher David, The Mighty Sparrow One of my intended sub-titles for my lead caption was “Ashamed to be a minister”.

By Winston McGowan The first instalment of this article traced the beginnings of rice cultivation in Guyana from the earliest efforts by enslaved Africans during the period of Dutch colonial rule in the 17th and 18th centuries to the early 1880s.

Immigration and Children Installment Sixty-Nine Along with the excitement of receiving an immigrant visa from the U.S.

A giant has fallen It is with deep sorrow this column notes the passing of a giant among us, David de Caires.

Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries by Naomi Wolf NEW YORK – Is this the Age of the Conspiracy Theory?

David de Caires – Witness to history and the search for a politics of meaningIt was with deep sadness that we learned of David de Caires’ passing.

A Mr. Guyana Pageant This week we asked the man/woman in the street: if there was a Mr.

The quiet sport Not many people guess right when asked “What is the most popular sport in the world?”

A new US policy towards the Caribbean? By the morning of Wednesday November 5, the world should know who the next President of the United States will be.

The financial crisis and credit crunch As promised last week, in this week’s Sunday Stabroek column I shall start a fairly extended discussion of the staggering financial crisis and worsening credit crunch facing the global economy, The epicentre of these is the United States.

National Championships begin on Saturday Fourteen games will be played in the National Chess Championships which begin on Saturday at the Ocean Spray Hotel.

Radicals regarded it as their ritual duty to yell “Limey go home” on encountering British soldiers in British Guiana in October 1953, fifty-five years ago.

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.