Stabroek Weekend

The parotid gland In dogs, there are four main pairs of salivary glands.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – The horrors of Haiti’s earthquake continue to unfold.

Is the Doha Round dead? That is a question that few want to ask or answer, not least because of what it implies about changing global relationships.

The ixora is one of the most popular of flowering shrubs of the tropics, and in particular the dwarf forms which have gained enormously in popularity in the last twenty years or so, as their potential for use in the sunny hot spots in the garden have been realised.

Part 3 Introduction To begin today’s column I conclude with two of the provisions relating to supplementary appropriations in the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act 2003, (FMAA).

Solution or source of  global climate change In this week’s column I shall wrap up the discussion over the past few weeks of the key lessons that should be learnt from the recent Copenhagen climate summit.

In my home, a step down off the dining room, overlooking the beautiful garden my wife has created, I have my studiolo. 

Honduran President Porfirio Lobo’s inauguration was a pretty lonely affair, with most Latin American presidents shunning the ceremony because of the country’s 2009 coup.

In an old introduction to African poetry, Nigerian poet and playwright Wole Soyinka who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 comments on some of its themes and characteristics. 

The maze was very popular in the UK five hundred years ago. 

Tonsillitis Continued Symptoms Last week, I mentioned the type of tissue that makes up the tonsils.

Ma Jian’s most recent novel is Beijing Coma. By Ma Jian LONDON – When former Czech President Václav Havel knocked on the door of the Chinese embassy in Prague to demand the release of the writer Liu Xiaobo, I had an eerie sense of déjà vu.

Who pays to promote the Caribbean as a destination that tourists should visit?

Former national junior chess champion Taffin Khan holds the lead in the Trophy Stall Chess Tournament after four rounds with the maximum four points, ahead of a field which includes the national champion Wendell Meusa.

A Guyanese returned to Guyana recently and was horrified when he saw the state of Georgetown, a city that used to be the pride of the West Indies.

Setting up of two funds Occasioned by the walkout of the opposition from the National Assembly as it considered Supplementary Appro-priation (No.3 of 2009) Bill 2010, for $8,245,758,278, some of which had already been spent (Contingen-cies) and to be spent (Supplementary Appropriations), I began an examination of the whole business of the constitution and the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act 2003 (FMAA).

In a recent column I remembered my old friend HL ‘Bertie’ Taitt, one of a group of us who regularly met for rum, curry lunch and unending talk more than forty years ago.

Thus far over the past two weeks I have highlighted in these columns what I believe are six very important lessons, which should be learnt from the recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Part II By Dr Anirban Banerjee, MS, MRCS (Consultant Surgeon) In continuation of our discussion on cancer, this week we will look at the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.