Daily Features

The Guyana stakeholder consensus offers a way out of the EPA deadlock By Norman Girvan The Cariforum EPA was initialled last December under extreme pressure of time and the threat of imposition of punitive tariffs on Caribbean exports in EU markets.

by Shlomo Ben-Ami TOLEDO, Spain – Does the war in the Caucasus herald the coming of Cold War II?

Auditor General’s Report Conclusion Introduction Today we conclude our 3-part review of the Auditor General’s report for 2006.

A high stakes gamble What should one make of the fiasco over the date of the signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe?

Near-term prospects for the Guyana economy: A tale of ‘falling prices’ (Continued from last week) Recap Several persons have expressed consternation to me over the Bureau of Statistic’s data indicating an overall increase in the price level of consumer items for the second quarter of this year of only one per cent (1%). 

A festival Caricom badly needed Carifesta X was a splendid and significant success.

The last redoubt America has been changing fast demographically of late — nearly a third of Americans are under the age of 20, and nearly a third are now either black or Hispanic — but you wouldn’t have known it from the mainly old and overwhelmingly white crowd gathered in the Xcel Energy Center in St Paul, Minnesota, on Thursday evening to cheer on Republican nominee John McCain, at 72 the oldest candidate ever to run for US president.

Was Carifesta worth the effort and expense? Among the most memorable features of Carifesta X in Guyana were the interventions of the major writers, and, generally, that is how it should be. 

Working towards producing a Guyanese grandmaster ‘I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in (to a tournament).

Vaccination schedulesOne can extract from last week’s Pet Corner that there is no correct vaccination protocol.

We need a culture of reading across the country September is Education Month and September 8, International Literacy Day.

A weekly column prepared by Dr Balwant Singh’s Hospital Of girls, boys and safe toys By Dr Santosh Mhetre Ever found yourself in a children’s toy store… surrounded by tens… maybe hundreds of toys… with all sorts of attractive colours… but not knowing which one would be the right one for your child?

The gems that make it good to be aliveThe bulb is a development in plants which is designed to assist them survive long periods of dormancy.

– Per Pinstrup-Andersen is Professor of Food, Nutrition, and Public Policy at Cornell University and Professor of Development Economics at Copenhagen University, Denmark.

‘Somebody make some noise!!’ Basics about criminal networks Past sixty I am, but very young at heart.

By Ian Martin KATMANDU – Nepal’s Maoist leader, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, known as “Prachanda,” has now been sworn in as the first prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, having won an overwhelming vote in the Constituent Assembly elected in April.

Remembering the 1823 Demerara slave uprising By Winston McGowan Each year in the month of August some Guyanese remember an important event in our country’s history.

Joseph S. Nye is Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and author, most recently, of The Powers to Lead.

by Naomi Wolf (This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.)