Stabroek Weekend

Yes, it blows hot, it blows cold, and falls asleep at crucial times for embarrassing intervals. 

Politicians love to praise themselves or arrange for others to praise them.

These are the concluding remarks in the Pharmacy Council’s advice to consumers.

By Dr Ramesh Vadapalli, MS (Trauma & Spine Surgeon) Low back pain (lumbago) is a common musculoskeletal disorder affecting 80% of people at some point in their lives.

Continued Last week, we mentioned those important factors which influence the well-being of the older dog.

All gardeners know that water evaporates from the garden during hot dry spells. 

Sasenarine Persaud is among the established contemporary Guyanese writers.  He settled in Canada for several years before moving to the USA and has published six collections of poetry and three books of fiction as a novelist and short story writer. 

Guyana’s Taffin Khan set the tone for future Guyanese participation in chess within the region when he made an impressive showing at the UMADA Cup recently in Trinidad and Tobago.

-Tea-infuser obsessed Hi Everyone, I have a ridiculous obsession with tea infusers!

I was born at Hague and spent the very early part of my life there, but in my teenage years the Martins family lived at New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop.

If you think about it carefully it seems impossible to reconcile two things which most people would very much like to believe – one, that they enjoy free will and in some ultimate sense are masters of their fates, and, two, that the God of all creation is omnipotent and has a master plan for us all which is beneficial.

Objective achieved It would be reasonable for readers to conclude that, despite withering criticisms directed at it, stress-testing of banks in the United States and the European Union (EU) has achieved its principal objective, which is restoring a large measure of public confidence in their respective banking systems.

Now what is an ‘old dog’? I don’t want to get philosophical and equate the question with the one usually directed to humans (How old is old?)

The FIDE elections seem to be galloping towards a spectacular finish as we observe the two candidates for President, the incumbent Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Anatoly Karpov campaigning through the Caribbean and the world, to make an impact upon voter countries.

The month of August is usually given over in the Caribbean to the commemoration of emancipation. 

Hi Everyone, last week, I wrote about the hits and misses of various foods that I have been having during my visit to Guyana.

I lived for more than 25 years in the Cayman Islands where tourism is almost 50% of the economy.

PR exercise Last week I pointed out that official US stress-testing of its biggest banks seemed to have ‘worked’ because a large measure of confidence has been restored in the banking system.

ContinuedIntroduction Last week I wrote that the Government of Guyana through the instrumentality of President Jagdeo was about to enter the tourism sector as a major investor while simultaneously getting out of a major lucrative investment in the telecommunication sector from which it, or rather the increasingly infamous NICIL, received some $3,458,000,000 in dividends.

Nothing can compare with the beauty and warmth of life at home.