Daily Features

Crisis in the USA: Is America too big to fail? September has been a disastrous month for the US whose leading presidential candidates like to refer to it jarringly as the greatest country on earth.

World champion Viswanathan Anand loses to Levon AronianAnand, V (2798) – Aronian, L (2751) Grand Slam Final Bilbao ESP (8), 10.9.2008 1.e4

The Guyana National Consultation on the Cariforum-EC, Economic Partnership Agreement   As a participant and presenter I might have been biased, but I believe that by any reasonable standard the Guyana National Consultation on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) held on September 5 at the National Convention Centre was a success. 

The whole point is not to talk or think I avoid as far as I can any party, club, reception or event when or where rap music is likely to be predominant.

The region’s leaders need to ensure delivery on the EPABy David Jessop Some time on or around October 15 the Economic Part-nership Agreement (EPA) between Europe and Cariforum will be signed in Barbados.

Palin filin Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica.

Canine Parvovirus (CPV) Continued   Last week, we began with the big theme of specific infectious diseases against which we can vaccinate.

Coconut: The perfect answer for the idle gardener The largest seed most of us have had to handle in Guyana is the coconut.

Caesarean  section: The easy way out?By Dr Soumyaroop Dash, MD (Consultant Obstetrician and  Gynaecologist) Caesarean section refers to a major surgical procedure where a baby is removed from the uterus by making a cut into the abdomen, then into the uterus.

So was Carifesta X worth the effort? Carifesta X is already fading from the headlines but it will take a much longer time before it begins to show any signs of fading from memory. 

By Nigel Westmaas It was forty years ago this October that Walter Rodney was banned from Jamaica and set off  disturbances that came to be known as the “Walter Rodney riots.”

Reprinting the past ARF Webber  Centenary history and handbook of British Guiana.

Some significant national disagreements -And from Carifesta 10 to Mashramani 2009 You’re Guyanese to the core.

Celebrating the Sugar Patrimony – Tales from the Sugar Estates Part 2 By Lloyd F Kandasammy Life at Ogle Occupying 893 acres, Ogle Sugar Estate was considered by many to be a pioneer of technological innovation in the production of sugar, during the period of British occupation.

By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE – The world economy has seen globalization collapse once already.

Kishore Mahbubani is Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

The dump Photos and interviews by Sara Bharrat This week we asked the residents of Princes Street  how the nearby dump site is affecting them.

The National Agricultural  Research Institute (NARI) and the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA) reiterated  in a recent release that  the tax free temporary cost of living adjustment is not applicable to all staff.

Unnatural Disasters By Maya Trotz Maya Trotz teaches environmental engineering at the University of South Florida, Tampa.

Near-term prospects for the Guyana economy: The internal environment US financial intervention The recent unprecedented and spectacular intervention of the US Federal Government into that country’s financial markets is testimony to how serious the risk of financial meltdown is in the USA, and around the world.