Daily Features

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

Are Guyana’s companies built to last? By Christopher Ram Introduction If we look across the Caribbean we see a number of companies that have extended well beyond their borders with Grace Kennedy, Republic Bank and Trinidad Cement being very prominent, burnishing their Caribbean credentials by cross-listing on the regional stock exchanges.

By Dr Clive Thomas As promised last week I propose to cover some of the considerations that lie behind spiralling global food prices, as a final issue in this fairly extended discussion on rising food prices, the government’s relief package in response to it, and the impact of the Value Added and excise legislation on the pain we all feel when we have to purchase food.

By Ian McDonald I think I am right in feeling increasingly agitated at the impression one gets that governments everywhere, and certainly in the Caribbean, are simply skipping from one headline problem to the next without time, thought and energy given to the deeper, persistent crises gathering forte like huge, hidden tsunamis.

by Jeffrey D. Sachs (Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

The anglophone Caribbean could learn from the Scottish parliamentary model By David Jessop (Executive Director of the Caribbean Council for Europe) A little over a week ago Caribbean High Com-missioners to the United Kingdom paid a formal first visit to the Scottish Parliament which is located in Edinburgh.

Roy Heath: ‘A writer of prodigious talent’ Al Creighton Anne Walmsley sent a note on May 15 to say, “You, like so many of us, must have been reeling from news of the sad loss of one great Caribbean writer after another:  Césaire, Archie Markham, OR Dathorne, Wordsworth McAndrew in quick succession. 

Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy Cheryl Springer If you have not had it, you really, honestly do not want it.

Tapeworms By Dr Steve Surujbally Conclusion  Control and treatment You will notice that I have said ‘control’ and not ‘prevention.’

On to November (sort of) Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica.

GT&T should refund contributions paid by Essequibo residents for new telephone system By Eileen Cox A letter in the Stabroek News of June 13, 2008, brings the curtain down on an experiment by Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Ltd on the Essequibo Coast, Region 2. 

The smoker’s zone:  Are you in a fool’s paradise? By Dr Ritesh Kohli, MD (Internal Medicine Specialist) People have many questions about tobacco that can sometimes be hard to answer.

Try green manuring By John Warrington  Bougainvillea ‘Mary Palmer’ is attractive, sometimes stunningly so, but when variegated can be wayward and unpredictable.

Shirov v Svidler Norway’s teenage chess wizard, 17-year-old Magnus Carlsen, has won the prestigious Aerosvit invitational tournament in the Ukraine with a round to spare. Carlsen

GETTING TO KNOW GUYANA   – As The Bandits Do Regard this brief offering today as my own “Friday Ramblings.”

Remembering Walter Rodney By Winston McGowan Last week marked the 28th anniversary of one of the most tragic events in the modern history of Guyana.

What happens in Orinduik stays in OrinduikWe have always had some affection for The PM.

(Stephen Lande, former Assistant United States Trade Representative (ret.), is President of Manchester Trade and has 40 years trade negotiating experience dating to the 1960’s Tokyo Round of the GATT.

Interviews and photos by Shabna Ullah This week we asked persons: If you had one concern to raise with the president what would it be?