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Artificially acquired immunity Artificially acquired immunity is of two types. Either it is an active immunity or it is a passive immunity.

You can make your own seed trays I always try and use a standard seed tray box for sowing seeds.

Competition at Oasis and practice at Saints Proprietors of the Oasis Cafe, William and Nisa Walker, sponsored a grand knockout chess tournament over the past two weekends that attracted some of the strongest chess players in the country.

Some Afro-Guyanese considerations Achievement, identity, then what? On this the 170th Anniversary of the Full-Freedom Emancipation (1838) of African slaves in the Guiana colony, please do not conclude that today’s approach is derived from my occasional laziness.

The impact of abolition and apprenticeship on female slaves and apprentices (Part 1) By Cecilia  McAlmont Introduction Nearly eighteen months ago, in March 2007, Guyana and the rest of the English speaking Caribbean commemorated the Bicentennial of the Abolition of the Trade in Captured Africans.

Robert’s a no show at UK agri fair Grow more! grow more!

The Moseley ban Photos and interviews by Sara Bharrat and Melissa Charles This week we asked the man and woman in the street their opinion on the Gordon Mosley ban.

Scotiabank Caribana: Economy’s Culture Peter Hudson is a writer currently researching the history of North American banking in the Caribbean.

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.

The role of the Privatisation Unit in the QAII dealIntroduction The President’s postponed Privatisation and Taxation Seminar finally gets underway this Tuesday at Le Meridien Pegasus, on a by-invitation only basis.

Global trade reform and food pricesBy Dr. Clive Thomas World food markets When discussing recently rising food prices most persons do not refer solely to their day-to-day experiences purchasing food items, but to the frequent media reports of prices in the major global markets for food as well.

Naming is not knowingBy Ian McDonald In Guyana getting a good education is defined as getting good exam results.

The region’s new global development partner By David Jessop In the past week Venezuela has clearly emerged as by far the Caribbean Basin’s single most important global development partner.

With Errol Tiwari Carlsen v Eljanov Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, plays host to one of the most fancied invitational chess tournaments in the world in January of each year.

War and literature By Al Creighton’s Here in the twenty-first century wars, insurgencies, terrorist violence, guerrilla warfare, genocidal dislocation, massacres, murderous attacks against humanity, war crimes and criminal carnage of various sorts rage unchecked right in your backyard. 

GT&T sends letter to its Essequibo customersBy Eileen Cox Some time ago this column published a report on the state of the telephone service on the Essequibo Coast, Region 2. 

Sexually transmitted diseases: The ‘deeper’ and the ‘darker’ insight By Dr Soumyaroop Dash  MD,  DNB (Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist) What is a sexually transmitted disease (STD)?

Immunity By Dr Steve  Surujbally I had said last week that one cannot really understand the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases if the concept of immunity is not grasped.