Daily Features

A Gardener’s Diary

A mini-pumpkin and morning glory By John Warrington I often think that with a climate like ours you could almost live forever.

The race for the White House

Covering Obama A year ago, his saying that in ‘hot pursuit’ he would breach Pakistan’s sovereignty to attack bin Laden is snatched up by Hillary Clinton as a ‘gotcha’ moment.

Frankly Speaking

Our governments and food Now, ‘Heroes’ and ‘Unions’ by A.A. Fenty And “Carifesta Considera-tions”.

Desmond Haynes

History This Week

Remembering the glory days of West Indies cricket (Part 11) By Winston McGowan Ardent Caribbean cricket fans will never forget the period between 1980 and 1995.

Wednesday Ramblings

Citizen Jagdeo –case study Patient name: Bharrat Jagdeo, former President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana Age: 46 Employment: 2011 to 2012: Micro-manager for Micro-loan project in Micronesia (dismissed for excessive oversight) March 2012 to Sept 2012: Quality control officer for local firm producing control switches for control panels.

An earthquake in Chinese politics?

By Jing Liang BEIJING – Now that the aftershocks from the great Sichuan earthquake appear to have dissipated, it is time to ask what shocks, if any, the earthquake delivered to China’s political system.

In The Diaspora

`The glue that keeps us going is our culture’This is an edited version of remarks given at the Tourism Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) Awards Dinner in Guyana in April by Dave Martins In 1967, the year when Tradewinds became popular with Honeymooning Couple, I came back to Guyana for the first time and when the plane touched down I had tears in my eyes.

What the people say about

Using computers Photos and interviews by Sara BharratNikki Dey, cosmetologist I use the computer to browse the internet, send text messages and to download and listen to music.

Guyana and the wider world

Much ado about little: Biofuels and climate change By Dr Clive Thomas Last week I labelled as risky business, the drive by governments to make the production of biofuels mandatory. 

Business Page

Another try at preventing money-laundering By Christopher Ram Introduction The current select committee review of Bill No 18 of 2007 Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Bill 2007 took me back to the Hansard report of the debate on The Money Laundering (Prevention) Bill 1998 which was piloted by then Attorney General Charles Ramson when he famously announced how proud he was to be associated with a government that had “zero tolerance for corruption.”

John McCain

The race for the White House

All about Obama By Wayne Brown As the reader may have noticed, this year’s presidential election is almost entirely about Barack Obama — so much so  that poor John McCain only ever seems able to get attention when he’s talking about the junior senator from Illinois — a fact that’s, ironically, resented by both sides.

Ian On Sunday

Reflections at the Seven Ponds By Ian McDonald Long ago when David Rose died under forty tons of iron scaffolding in London and came home for his state burial it was the time of Diwali and it was night when they bore him into town from Timehri.

Iceland’s first Ambassador to Guyana, His Excellency Hjalmar Hannesson, plays a game of chess with Shiv Nandalall, Treasurer of the Guyana Chess Federation. Watching the game is chess enthusiast Annelisa Persaud of the Richard Ishmael Secondary School. Iceland hosted the famous Fischer-Spassky chess match of 1972, and is one of the world’s foremost chess-playing nations. Ambassador Hannesson presented his credentials to President Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday accrediting him as his country’s Ambassador to Guyana.

Chess

The match of all time With Errol Tiwari The following story is inspired by an interview I had with Iceland’s Ambassa-dor to Guyana, His Excellency Hjalmar Hannesson.

Dave Martins

Arts On Sunday

A vintage act in an appropriate setting By Al Creighton As Guyana steadily steps up the pace towards Carifesta X, the nation presented one of its vintage acts in a very appropriate and significant setting.

The View From Europe

The region is on the verge of disintegration By David Jessop Is the Caribbean, as one of the region’s elder statesmen recently noted to me, about to enter the darkest period in its history since the collapse of the West Indies Federation?

Consumer Concerns

Be a responsible pet owner By Eileen Cox The Guyana Society for the Preven-tion of Cruel-ty to Animals has kindly provided an article on ‘How to be a responsible Pet Owner.’ 

Health

Computer Vision Syndrome – from the eye doctor’s window By Dr Neeraj Jain MD (ophthal), DNB, MNAMS (Consultant Ophthalmologist) Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) is described as a group of eye and vision-related problems that result from prolonged computer use.

Pet Corner

More factors influencing infectious diseases By Dr Steve Surujbally (Continued) 6.

Frankly Speaking

An education?  For what? -and Criminal Ignorance By A.A. Fenty These observations were prompted by the editorial in this week’s Sunday Stabroek (SS July 13, 08).

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