Stabroek Weekend

Today we have global recognition that unsustainable patterns of consumption are leading to extremely serious social and environmental impacts worldwide.

Reporter: ‘Mike, how are you approaching this fight?’ Tyson: ‘ With bad intentions.’

The 6th Caribbean Writers’ Residential Workshop sponsored by The Cropper Foundation in Trinidad recently circulated invitations to new writers to send in applications for places in their 2010 workshop, and Poui, the Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing recently launched its latest issue, Volume 10, in Barbados.

Having discussed all the various tooth and gum ailments over the past weeks, we must now logically turn to the prevention aspect.

LA PAZ – Bolivian President Evo Morales  looks set to win re-election easily on Dec.

By Jeffrey A Engel Jeffrey A. Engel is Director of Programming, Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs, Texas A&M University.

It is probable that at some time in the next two weeks Europe will announce that a final deal on bananas has been achieved.

A Gardener’s Diary At this time of the year one is quite anxious about trying to get one’s hands on particularly choice plants now coming onto the market.

You gave me gifts, God-Enchanter. I give you thanks for good and ill.

Economy firewall malfunctions Today Business Page begins a short series on the Mid-year Report 2009 which the Minister of Finance is required to submit to the National Assembly under the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act, 2003.

As this column noted last Sunday, despite including nations which earlier had staunchly championed the cause of poor countries, the G20 since leading the coordination of international efforts to tackle the global crisis has turned out to be like the G7 before it, a serial violator of its pledges to help poor countries.

Part1 By Dr Pankaj Kshatriya, MD (Physician) How the heart works To understand heart disease, you must first know how the heart works.

The Parliament Office has notified the public that the Court of Appeal (Amendment) Bill 2008 has been committed to a Special Select Committee of the National Assembly.

Few things are as psychologically brutal as serious chess. You spend five or six hours in total concentration, at war with another mind.

The stage performance of Baghban (The Caretaker) directed by Neaz Subhan in the name of the Indian Arrival Committee is the latest attempt in a long endeavour by Subhan to create/promote Indian drama in Guyana. 

Oral ailments ContinuedPeriodontitis Let me fulfil my promise to continue with the symptoms and treatment of the disease, periodontitis.

The laboratory is replacing the potting shed Over the past few weeks I have dealt with some aspect of the propagation of plants, and it’s  obvious to me that there is no part of a plant which cannot be utilized for propagation, for the simple reason that every living cell possesses the genetic information of its parents.

It is a blessing that the rush to the precipice halted just in time to save West Indies cricket.

Several readers have expressed surprise and disappointment on reading in last Sunday’s column that the G20, which includes so many former champions of poor countries in the global economy are now flagrantly doing what the rich G7 countries had been doing for decades previously.