Daily Features

Progressives and Pan-Africanists: Our collective duty to Zimbabwe (Horace Campbell is a Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University.

A state-owned big bus service By Sara Bharrat with photos by Jules Gibson This week we asked the man and woman in the street what they thought about the state resuming a big bus service.

Rising food prices, inflation and oil prices By Dr Clive Thomas Last week’s column posed the question: has the era of cheap food really ended?

Facing the threat of rising oil and food pricesBy Christopher Ram IntroductionOil seems to have a talismanic role in the world’s psyche.

Living in darkness By Eileen Cox The Guyana Power & Light Inc seems committed to improving its service. 

There is a change in political mood about trade liberalization among small states By David Jessop As this is being written Caribbean Heads of Government are meeting in Barbados.

Don’t hold your breath By Cheryl Springer Women, women’s organizations and anti-violence advocates may just have felt a sliver of hope three weeks ago, when the government launched its much-touted national policy on domestic violence, titled ‘Break the Cycle – Take Control.’

The filthy rich By Ian McDonald I have been asked why I criticize the way rich countries treat poor countries.

River Bottom: Reflecting current popular trends in theatre The theatre of Oliver Samuels as it is today has many things to tell us about itself and its development over three decades, but it can also say quite a bit about Jamaican and Caribbean theatre over the same period.

Obama swerves right By Wayne Brown Talk about a campaign of shocks!

The Casuarina is a good barrier against salt-laden wind By John Warrington When the rain is bucketing down and everything is awash and bedraggled it can often be enchanting.

Of moans, groans and kidney stones! By Dr Badhri Veerappan Sivaji, Consultant Radiologist What are kidney stones?

Infectious diseases By Dr Steve Surujbally ContinuedTransmissionThere are several different routes that an infectious agent (germ) can take to enter a new host and make it ill.

Where was chess With Errol Tiwarti Who invented chess? Where did it come from?

-On Festas and Carifesta By A.A. FentyReceived an invitation I did, sudden and relatively last-minute, to visit the Roraima city of Boa Vista in neighbouring Brazil.

By Kenneth Rogoff (Kenneth Rogoff is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and was formerly chief economist at the IMF.)

The achievements of the women descended from the 19th Century Chinese Immigrants (Part 1) By Cecilia McAlmont and Margery Kirkpatrick Introduction One hundred and thirty years ago, thirty one members of British Guiana’s plantocracy subscribed the sum of about 8,647 pounds sterling to charter the ship “Dartmouth” to transport a group of Chinese immigrants from Canton.

Caribbean Congress of Labour recommendation on the Economic Partnership Agreementand Its social and labour dimensions This is a very important week for the CARIFORUM- European Union Economic Partnership Agreement when the Caricom Heads of Government meet in Antigua and Barbuda.

Interviews and photos by Shabna Ullah This week we asked persons to share their views on the Lindo Creek murders and got the following responses: Pravinchandra Deodat, chairman of Number 66 Fisheries `I do not think that the Joint Services would be involved in such brutal killings.