Stabroek Weekend

A Gardener’s Diary Gardeners in present day Britain are experiencing a fairly new phenomenon: a preoccupation with size which has got to competition level.

Tony Blair is a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1997-2007.

– for that million dollar smile By Dr Kiran Koora, MDS – (Paedodontics)HealthIntroduction Your smile is the first thing someone notices about you, and people often make a judgment about your personality based on your smile; A great smile is not just for celebrities and Hollywood actors; anyone these days can get the smile they’ve always dreamed of with the help of an experienced and trained dentist.

Business Page Introduction The word ‘merry’ fits in with Christmas as horse goes with carriage.

‘Dirty secrets’ I hope that I have already indicated clearly Norway’s double standards in its climate change and global warming actions.

Surely I am not the only one to have noticed that not long before India’s Test team rose to No.

By Dr Ritesh Kohli, MD  (Internal Medicine Specialist) A stroke is caused by the sudden loss of blood flow to the brain or bleeding inside the head.

As you read this, the New Year is just around the proverbial corner.

The intention of the Guyana Chess Federation is to transform chess from backroom obscurity to a Goliath like cricket in popularity among sporting disciplines in Guyana.

By Dominique Moisi PARIS – “Do not forget India.” That warning made sense 10 or 15 years ago; not any longer.

Tears For The New YearI have always thought of tears as redemptive, irrigating my bone-dry spirit, disposing it to bloom again, unfurling astonishing, frail flowers of hope.

Brindley Horatio Benn, CCH, former High Commissioner to Canada, Chairman of the People’s Progressive Party, Deputy Premier and Minister of the Government died on December 11, aged 86.

As 2009 comes to a close Sunday Stabroek takes a light-hearted look at the 2010 prospects for some of our leaders according to the astrological charts.

I was interested to read that gardeners throughout Britain are being urged to collect and save trimmings of their yew trees (Taxus baccata) for processing into the anti-cancer drug, Taxol.

Christmas is a time of joyful preparation. Over the centuries this has tended to become the shining-up and decoration of homes, the stocking up of food and drink for family and friends, joining in the merry round of parties.

I hope that by now readers would have realised that Norway can in no way be looked upon as Guyana’s Santa Claus.

Brightening prospects Introduction Today’s column draws heavily on the Business Outlook Survey 2010, an annual survey which Ram & McRae has been carrying out for sixteen years.

Vitamins are important for health. Information on vitamins is found in cook books.

There are some plays in the  corpus of Guyanese drama that need to be seen. 

It’s Christmas time, the season of goodwill and reflection, so we’ll take time off from the more stodgy issues of diseases and their cures.