Daily Features

Carifesta: For whom? Nicholas Laughlin is the editor of The Caribbean Review of Books.

The Auditor General’s Report for 2006 Introduction It is now established that the Report of the Auditor General was late by more than ten months.

Kamsky v Gelfand The Mikhail Tal Memorial Tournament is being played (August 17-31) in Moscow.

Whose convention? (Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica.

The Pre-Carifesta programme has paid off As the Tenth Caribbean Festival of the Arts gets into full stride, the public awareness campaign in Guyana seems to have already begun to show some positive returns.

Not all Railway Line occupants are squatters The caption in the Stabroek News of August 19 ‘Railway Squatters to get moving help from gov’t’ gave hope that serious attention was being given to a serious problem. 

Feline vaccines Well, I had promised that we would deal with the specific diseases today, but there was a change of mind.

Put poetry on the buses I favour the reintroduction of public transportation.

The Yeast in you uncovered By Dr Soumyaroop Dash, MD (Consultant Obstetrician Gynaecologist) Yeast infections are one of the most common infections occurring in women.

Hydrangeas and heliotrope It is at this time of the year that the hours of daylight start to slide towards equality with my home in Guyana, and in a few months it will be winter.

World economic uncertainty: Cause or consequence This analysis of the recent rapid increases in global food and fuel prices along with the strong surge in bio-fuels production and their combined impact on the Guyanese economy would be incomplete without taking into account major uncertainties that have been confronting the global economy in recent times.

Welcome Caribbean, to Celegacy To the usual, to the different “Celegacy?”

The 1968 General Election campaign in Guyana: An American perspective By Dr.

The Olympic Games Interviews and photos by Melissa Charles and Sara BharratThis week we asked the man/ woman in the street about their favourites at the Olympic GamesCollin Christie, GPL employee: ‘I’m waiting for the boxing to begin.

Little keys can open up mighty doorsBy Alissa Trotz Early yesterday morning, while shopping at Caribbean Corner, the Jamaican owned grocery store in Toronto’s Kensington market (one of the oldest shops of its kind in the downtown core), my partner posed the question, to no-one in particular: Is anyone watching the Olympics today?

GO-INVEST – Investment and reality Introduction As we conclude the series of columns on the QA II privatisation, we turn our attention to the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-INVEST), an entity established in 1994 under the Public Corporations Act 1988 to replace GUYMIDA, an agency with similar objectives closed down soon after the change of government in 1992.

Necessary but dangerous: Non-tariff barriers in action in the EPA Last week I had indicated that this week’s column would illustrate the way in which non-tariff barriers are addressed in the Cariforum-EC, Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).

Will any record ever go unbroken? It seems impossible that Michael Phelps’s record of winning fourteen Olympic gold medals, with more to come in London in 2012 when he will only be 27, will ever be broken.