Daily Features

Ian On Sunday

  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.

History this week

“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.

Pakistan’s Black Revolution

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.

In the Diaspora

Aimé Césaire: The passing of the doyen of letters  By Linden Lewis, a Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, USA.

A Tribute

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.

Guyana and the wider world

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.”

Ian On Sunday

Freedom for the collision of views By Ian McDonald  Whatever happened to the National Broadcasting Authority Bill?

Consumer Concerns

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 View From Europe

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.

Arts On Sunday

Masquerade is an appropriate form for Carifesta By Al Creighton Carifesta X has been launched in Georgetown. 

Pet Corner

Roundworms By Dr Steve Surujbally  Roundworm infections in dogs and cats occur pretty frequently.

A Gardener’s Diary

Go easy on the chemicals By John Warrington I briefly talked about using chemicals towards the end of last week’s column.

Health

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

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.

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