Daily Features

By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE – The sub-prime mortgage crisis has demonstrated once again how hard it is to tame finance, an industry that is both the lifeline of modern economies and their gravest threat.

by Shashi Tharoor (This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world)As the world reacts to China’s crackdown in Tibet, one country is conspicuous by both its centrality to the drama and its reticence over it.

The cost of living Interviews and photos by Shabna Ullah Sugar workers in Berbice recently protested the high cost of living and this week we asked persons to comment on how the issue is affecting them and got the following responses: Nigel Abbensetts, farmer “It is very hard for people to survive with this high cost of living.

“A disservice to the Caribbean, indeed” By Alissa Trotz The title of this week’s column borrows from an editorial in the Jamaica Observer (April 18), which targeted those involved in what it described as “an orchestrated campaign against the recent Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).”

The challenges of the interim EPAs By Dr Clive Thomas This series of Sunday columns assessing the CARIFORUM-EU, EPA started on January 20 and after fourteen weeks it remains incomplete without an appreciation of some key issues surrounding the several interim EPAs, which were initialled in Africa and the Pacific at about the same time.

The Caribbean can learn from Iceland By David Jessop It is hard to imagine nations less like one another than the islands of the Caribbean and Iceland.

Miracle By Ian McDonald My sister, Gillian Howie, who lives with her husband Doug in a beautiful house on a cliff overlooking the ever-changing, blue-green, coral-shadowed sea on the north coast of Antigua, is a lover of West Indies cricket.

Always remember our feathered friends By John Warrington The trouble with an automatic watering system starts when you take your plants off it and start watering by conventional ways, say using fresh water in a watering can.

Making chess friendships stronger On Sunday, some unlikely chess players from grassroots Berbice began a cultural intercourse with the Guyana Chess Federation.

By Ralph Ramkarran, Speaker of the National Assembly In March 2008, Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh objected to a motion moved in the National Assembly by Mr Winston Murray, the Shadow Finance Minister, which sought to impose a limit of $10 million on the aggregate of debt obligations that may be forgiven, postponed or reduced by the minister without the approval of the National Assembly in any fiscal year.

Obama stumbles (Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica.

Epilepsy: The brain’s ‘electrical storm’  Part I By Dr Santosh Mhetre, MD  (Paediatric consultant) (Dr.

Worms By Dr Steve Surujbally Sorry folks! From one gruesome topic to another.

GPL guide for estimating consumption under question By Eileen Cox We are not convinced.

Recognition for a novelist and scholar David Dabydeen’s latest work has just been released. 

Carifesta, songs and bananas and a challenged Capital  By A.A. Fenty Just as I decided to repeat a few facts and statistics about the economics of Carifesta (s), I came across a piece written a few months ago by an old friend, international correspondent Bert Wilkinson.

West Indies – Sri Lanka Test Cricket: A historical perspective (Part IV – Final Instalment) By Winston McGowan This fourth and final instalment of this article will focus on the two Test series between the West Indies and Sri Lanka which immediately preceded the recently concluded tour by Mahela Jayawardena’s team.

No one die for four months Re-entry was hard…a switched plane in Piarco caused the customary cussing and the tired retort to the tannoy: “They would not do this to anyone else but Guyanese, dem eyes pass us…” Then turbulence over the gradually muddying  waters, combined with the surliest flying waitresses, slapping packaged cornbread onto the trays, more eye pass …they would not do that to ….

By Glauco Arbix (This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world) SÃO PAULO – Less than a decade ago, Brazil’s economy faltered at the first sign of instability in international financial markets.