Stabroek Weekend

In the Gulf of Mexico, oil continues to haemorrhage from a deep sea well nearly a mile beneath the ocean and about forty miles off the US coast. 

When I was young I showed an aptitude for games. After a lot of hard practice I played tennis best, but I was also for my age a fair centre-half in football, I was a good swimmer, I could hold my own among the athletes especially in middle-distance running, and I played reasonably good games of table tennis and badminton.

Last week’s column noted that the unprecedented and spectacular growth of the global carbon market in the space of a few years makes it one of the most dazzling symbols of the awesome power of market expansion contained in globalization.

This article is an extensively edited version of work presented at the University of Guyana and at the Octavio Paz Room in the Mexican Embassy by Visiting Lecturer Ellif Lara of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico).

Continued Last week I suggested the use of an enema to help evacuate impacted faeces.

Scale and scope The global carbon market is the most recent and perhaps the most glamorous ‘poster-child’ of globalization ever.

Introduction In Oslo, Norway two Fridays ago, speaking to a reporter from Stabroek News, President Jagdeo added to the growing confusion about the Amaila Falls Hydro-Electricity Project in what was intended to be a clarification.

In August 2009 NAMILCO the National Milling Company issued a press release introducing Health Line of Products. 

Continued Treatment Right at the outset, allow me to state clearly that this is one instance when you really don’t want the pet owner to try, on his/her own, to relieve the constipated animal.

It is frustrating, not to say humiliating, to think how much one is missing by not knowing any language except one’s own.

The time has come for a change; one that is graceful and quick. 

Carnival TuesdayIt was not the decrepit fence, falling gate I faced, that shouted that was the place. 

George Horace Roy Jackman, SC, CCH, a former Director of Public Prosecutions, died on May 20, aged 81.

Part 3By Dr Vineeth Naja, MS (Gen Surgery) MCh (Urology) (Consulting Urologist and Andrologist) This is the concluding part of the article and deals with ureteric and  bladder stones and preventive aspects of kidney stones.

On May 27 President Obama sent a new US national security strategy to Congress.

 It is the palm tree which gives the tropical landscape its distinctive look and along with beautiful sea and sand beaches features in the brochures enticing people to holiday in the West Indies. 

The DDL Topco Juices annual mid-year chess tournament is underway and the second round will be played this morning from 10am at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club.

Growing old, I do not miss the rampagings of youth. Let those rest in the memory of other times.

The PPP men recently sunk to a new low: they sent two women to do a dirty job.