Daily Features

‘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.

by Derva DavisPITTSBURGH – In 1971, President Richard M Nixon launched a “war” against cancer.

by Jeffrey D. Sachs   NEW YORK – The world economy is being battered by sharply higher energy prices.

When greed overpowers need                    – on ‘corruptocracy’ and kleptocracy This commentary just cried out last weekend to be written by me.

Around the museums of Guyana Lloyd F Kandasammy Louis Lemieux defined the museum as “an institution that collects and preserves objects that will compose its collections, that studies these objects in order to establish their importance and significance as part of the society’s cultural heritage, and disseminates the knowledge thus acquired by means of various educational formulas.”