Stabroek Weekend

By Dr Anirban Banerjee, MS, MRCS (Consultant Surgeon) In my last article we discussed about hernia especially about groin hernias.

‘Our money, our rights’ was the theme chosen by Consumers International for World Con-sumer Rights Day 2010.

The Bank of Guyana is currently hosting the 8th Intra-Regional Central Bank Games comprising nine sporting disciplines.

The Link Show  is “without doubt, Guy-ana’s leading satirical review,” to quote Ron Robinson’s Programme Notes for Link Show 26. 

Guyanese artist Stanley Greaves’s recent painting called ‘Easter Kite’ provokes a number of questions, says Leila Persaud.

Continued Surely I should have found something less taxing and more frivolous to share with you on this good Easter Sunday morning.

Everyone will have come across the term ‘old crock’; it is generally applied in a disparaging way to a variety of conditions.

Digression In this week’s column I shall temporarily digress from my originally intended topic, which was to continue the discussion centred on the fuzziness in the LCDS and other related official documents about the size of the total forest area that is being pledged under the strategy, as well as that found in the publication of recent data on Guyana’s deforestation.

Part 3 Introduction In the two preceding parts of this series on the state-owned sugar entity, my focus was on the 2008 financial statements which are contained in the annual report tabled in the National Assembly in late 2009.

We need new and more imaginative swearwords. We need to lift the level of vituperation – especially in light of the great financial meltdown with its cohorts of absurd villains.

Who will be The Man?  This has been the question of interest making the rounds. 

Monday March 22 was recognized internationally as World Water Day. Stabroek News carried messages from Guyana Water Incor-porated (GWI) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

During Carifesta X in Guyana in 2008, one of the usual   features, the Carifesta Symposia, assumed greater prominence than in most of the previous regional festivals. 

By Dr Prashant Pruthi, MD  (Paediatrics) Every year, on an average, 5% to 20% of the population gets the flu; many persons are hospitalized from flu complications; and people may die from flu.

Last week, I mentioned that stomach ailments, for example a gastritis episode, could cause vomiting.

Nearly everyone knows the eucalyptus, the clove, the Australian bottle brush, the myrtle and the guava.

In about a week’s time, the Bank of Guyana’s chess team will oppose their counterparts from the Caribbean in a regional chess competition at the 8th Intra-Regional Central Bank Games.

On or around May 6, the United Kingdom will have a general election.

The year is 1992.  After an eternity of travails, a hardy group of men and women stagger into the Promised Land.