Daily Features

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.

`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.

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.

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. 

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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 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?

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.’ 

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.

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

Sowing with thunder and lightningBy John Warrington This week has been a busy kind of week.

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).

Remembering the glory days of West Indies cricket (Part 1)By Winston McGowan The West Indies recently completed the international phase of this year’s Carib-bean cricket season.

I want me Sharma in De Morning   It was good to see on Sunday morning as our kidneys were working overtime to eliminate a copious amount of Parbo beer from the previous night, that should one conk out we could now have it replaced at GPHC.

Homophobia and the Caribbean state Aaron Kamugisha is a lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados By Aaron Kamugisha Some weeks ago, Jamaican prime minister Bruce Golding appeared on BBC’s Hard Talk programme (you can see the full interview on http://www.youtube.com/results?search_

The prices Interviews and photos by Melissa Charles This week we asked the man and woman in the street which prices have gone up and how they are coping with the increases.