Planning for the good life
By Ian McDonald
Having retired after 52 years in the sugar industry, including working closely with governments and regional institutions along the way, if there is one thing I have learned it is the extreme frailty of all grand plans.
Yesterday’s May Day
Critchlow, Cheddi and Chand – and Melas
It was Labour Day again yesterday.
“East Indian Immigration, 1838-1917 in Guyana”
By Tota C.Mangar
May 5, 2008 commemorates the 170th Anniversary of the arrival of East Indian indentured immigrants in Guyana the former colony of British Guiana.
The pill that cures everything
“How do you spell phsycofrenia …scizo ….dammit
By Bruce Alberts
SAN FRANCISCO – Science provides an invaluable source of guidance to individuals and governments.
Pit bulls in Guyana
Interviews by Zoisa Fraser and photos by Jules Gibson.
‘Slogging up to Calvary’
On Tuesday night, CNN’s Jeff Toobin got it right.
By Anne-Marie Slaughter
SHANGHAI — Immediately after taking office last month, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ordered the release of the 60 judges who had been detained by President Pervez Musharraf since November.
Aimé Césaire: The passing of the doyen of letters
By Linden Lewis, a Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, USA.
Wordworth McAndrew passes on
By Oscar Ramjeet
Guyana has lost one of its greatest cultural and folklorist icons who died at the South Orange Hospital in New Jersey.
Do the interim EPAs create opportunities for Caricom?
By Dr Clive Thomas
We saw last week that as the WTO-waiver deadline approached at the end of last year, the stratagem that might best describe the process of hasty initialling of interim EPAs was “the aversion of disaster at all costs, with agreement reached nowhere.”
Freedom for the collision of views
By Ian McDonald
Whatever happened to the National Broadcasting Authority Bill?
Nostalgia 373
By Godfrey ChinDuring 2003, I encouraged the Guy-Aspora to record ‘the street where they lived’ in Guyana.
Illegal disconnections: GPL should put its house in order
By Eileen Cox
The Guyana Power & Light Inc wastes no time when it wishes to disconnect a customer but takes its time when a reconnection is to be done.
The region needs a unified position on the global debate over climate change
By David Jessop
New international fault lines are emerging at the point where concerns about climate change, agriculture, food and energy meet.
Masquerade is an appropriate form for Carifesta
By Al Creighton
Carifesta X has been launched in Georgetown.
Roundworms
By Dr Steve Surujbally
Roundworm infections in dogs and cats occur pretty frequently.
Go easy on the chemicals
By John Warrington
I briefly talked about using chemicals towards the end of last week’s column.
Epilepsy: The brain’s ‘electrical storm’
Continued
By Dr Santosh Mhetre (Paediatric consultant)
What to tell your doctor
Most doctors will never see your child have a seizure; they don’t happen often in the doctor’s office.
Chess develops decision-making skills
With Errol Tiwari
‘Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny’Making those critical and irreversible decisions over the chessboard determines the outcome of our game.