Daily Features

Ask the Consul

Summer Travel Installment Sixty Two Q: How can I prepare accordingly for summer travel to the United States?

History This Week

The impact of abolition and apprenticeship on female slaves and apprentices (Part 2) Introduction In the previous article, the paradoxical consequences for women of the abolition act of 1807 were examined.

In the Diaspora

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

Guyana and the wider world

The harsh reality of global agricultural trade: Artificial competitiveness and the need for safeguards Most observers would argue that, technical and natural considerations apart, the most positive development favouring the stabilisation of global food prices in the long run would be the successful conclusion of the long drawn-out process of global trade reform.

Kenneth King

Obituary

Kenneth King, August 22, 1929 – July 30, 2008 Dr Kenneth Fitzgerald Stanislaus King, former ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium and Minister of Economic Development, died on July 30 aged 78 It was Kenneth King’s good fortune to have been appointed chief architect to lead the teams that designed the two most ambitious economic development plans in post-independence Guyana.

Consumer Concerns

Healthy eating Consumer Reports On Health, an American magazine, has prepared a vitamin chart which should be of interest to all consumers who are concerned about the food they eat.

George Simon’s Universal Woman (Gina photo)

Arts On Sunday

UG has a close partnership with Carifesta management We would like Carifesta X to showcase not only the great cultural talent that this region has spawned over the short period of Caribbean history, but the great philosophical legacy and diverse economic, productive and natural resource capacities that we as a region have to offer.

Ian On Sunday

An Olympic memory I am the ultimate sports junkie. If games were abolished by some satanic world dictator I would be almost as lost as if he banned all books.

The WTO headquarters in Geneva

The View From Europe

The collapse of the WTO ministerial leaves the Caribbean in limbo Set in a park with views across Lake Geneva to the snow-capped Alps, the elegant 1920s building that houses the World Trade Organisation is an unlikely, almost surreal setting for the intense multi-dimensional power play over global trade that ended suddenly last Tuesday afternoon (July 28).

Health

Diabetic foot: Prevention and treatment By Dr Ajay Gupta, MS (Consultant Surgeon) Foot infections are the most common problem in people with diabetes.

Mining the swamp may not be enough to save McCain

The race for the White House

Dirt flies; the race tightensBack in late February, when it dawned on the Clinton camp that they were suddenly on the cusp of defeat, the campaign pulled an astonishing switch.

Pet Corner

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

Nandalall (left) and Tiwari at work during the final game of the Oasis knockout chess tournament

Chess

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.

Frankly Speaking

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.

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