Stabroek Weekend

The Sexual Offences Act 2009, which came into effect on May 24 this year, creates many new offences.

Inexhaustibly, it becomes more evident that some poems are applicable to real social and political situations.

Dr Ramesh Vadapalli, MS (Orthopaedics), Fellow in Arthroplasty Movement is life and life is movement.

Firstly, there are many who argue that the liver is really a gland, since it secretes bile.

Britain has a new foreign policy. Its coalition government has begun to enunciate a more pragmatic approach that recognises the ways in which the world has changed, political and economic relationships overlap and new centres of power are emerging.

During the past fifty years there has been a quiet revolution in the commercial production of pot plants.

“Chess is a versatile model for decision-making.” – Garry Kasparov, How Life Imitates Chess The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) took a step closer towards the inevitable recognition of the ancient game in Guyana recently by staging, successfully, the FIDE-rated tournament which sought to include our players on the world stage.

My heart has grown heavy and heavier yet in recent times, as I have contemplated what seems to be the gradual fading of the dream of West Indian unity.

Introduction This week I shall conclude my discussion of the global carbon market and the hopes many place on it for helping to provide a solution to the problems of global warming and climate change.

Following two de-cades and a bit more of inactivity on the international circuit, chess seems to be finding its way back into the Caribbean limelight through Guyanese participation in two recent FIDE-ranked tournaments.

Exactly 50 years ago, on July 11, 1960, the best-selling novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee was published in the USA by JB Lippincott.

Continued Eating stool (Coprophagia) We have been writing a lot about constipation over the last two months.

Introduction I extend sincere apologies to readers for the unavoidable non-appearance of this column last week.

When I was asked by Cricinfo to join the panel choosing an all-time West Indies Cricket XI my first inclination was to decline.

Talk of coalitions and leaders has raged in Guyana for the past several weeks. 

Introduction On reflection, several readers have communicated to me over the past few weeks, in different ways, the grave difficulty they were having in trying to fathom the interconnections between the global carbon market, the LCDS, and the resolution of the global climate problem.

Tourism employs directly and indirectly one in every nine persons in the Caribbean and is the largest employer after the public sector.

Last week consumers were introduced to the Sexual Offences Act, 2009 which is now in force.

The work of celebrated Guyanese author Wilson Harris was once again brought into focus recently when the British decided to show recognition for his contribution to English literature by honouring him with a knighthood. 

Part 1 By Dr Anil Menedal, MS (Orthopaedics) Elbow fractures in children When a child falls on an outstretched arm, the velocity of the fall combined with the pressure of hitting the ground could be enough to fracture or break a bone around the elbow.