Stabroek Weekend

Shift in focus Following on this coverage, this week’s column begins a shift to a new area of focus.

The Guyana Chess Federation is preparing to host a FIDE- titled chess tournament which will enable its players to receive world chess ratings. 

“Good fences make good neighbours” is an ironic statement made by a farmer in the poem Mending Wall by American writer Robert Frost. 

I had mentioned in the Pet Corner of April 4, that an accumulation of hair in the stomach, over a period of time, could create a massive hair ball.

Business Page today interrupts its series on the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation to present an overview of the annual reports and accounts of two of the country’s financial institutions which will soon be holding their annual members’ general meetings at which the presentation of the annual reports is a major agenda item.

Before last December’s climate change conference in Copenhagen, global public opinion was clearly supportive of an internationally agreed initiative to address the man-made aspects of global warming; now it is more divided.

Wrap up This week I wrap up that part of my assessment of the LCDS that focuses on the several misstatements and computational errors found in the draft text and related official documents, especially as they pertain to such basic data as the area under forest and estimated rates of deforestation for Guyana.

A friend asked me how important a part poetry plays in my life.

A sudden flurry of words and actions has poured from government corners recently. 

“Not because I say so it’s so.”  This phrase used by Dr Ptolemy Reid when addressing members of his party is indelibly printed in my memory.

A dramatic performance called Choo Kong and Pennie Tell It Like It Is presented by Raymond Choo Kong Productions of Trinidad and Tobago, which is currently on stage in Port of Spain, draws attention to a number of issues in Caribbean theatre.

We have been discussing maladies associated with the digestive system over the last few weeks.

The rains can be very welcome to the gardener, but large trees can have very serious problems when they have to carry enormous weights of water on their limbs and leaves during the rainy season.

The 8th Intra-Regional Central Bank Games were played last weekend at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall and the National Stadium.

By Dr Ritesh Kohli, MD (Internal Medicine Specialist) Flu is the common name for influenza, a virus that attacks the respiratory system.

I wish I could convey in particular to young people – whose mental appetites seem whetted so easily these days by the superficial, the transitory and the trashy – I wish I could convey to them the quiet depths, the delights, the leaping excitement of great poetry.

Whenever the President’s men gather, there is lots of cursing, long intervals of laughter, and more cursing. 

Part 4 Introduction In part 3 last week dealing with GuySuCo’s 2008 annual report, I opined that Ms Geeta Singh-Knight’s role in the collapse of Clico the insurance giant, and the loss to Guyana of close to G$7 billion made her unfit to be a director of the state-owned entity.

Recap In last week’s column I made a digression to deal with a few issues raised by Ambassador Brattskar, head of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative and the lead negotiator for the Norwegian government as they were reported in the Stabroek News, (March 21, 2010).