Latin View By Andres Oppenheimer MEXICO CITY — If you look at the culture pages in Mexico’s newspapers these days, there is little question about what’s the talk of the town in literary circles — old men having sex with young girls.
Ian On Sunday In any given situation we assume that people, including ourselves, will act sensibly.
Guyana and the wider world Last week I indicated that I would respond to three queries which readers have raised, before turning to evaluate the trade policy proposals of the G20 for resolving the current economic crisis and hopefully establishing a secure platform for the robust resumption of global trade.
Why Trade Matters At times of global economic and financial crisis keeping trade open matters in this the new age of explosive globalisation.
Answer: the thickness of a prison wall Business Page That is how the former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK, Denis Healey defined the two related practices but which have distinctly separate consequences.
Consumer Concerns September 20-26, 2009 was regarded as Child Protection Week.
Arts On Sunday How important are programmes to the theatre? Programmes in this context refer not to the proceedings themselves, that is, what is being performed, but those little documents that are usually handed out (or sold) at the door.
Ian On Sunday Towards the end of life – and when you are seventy-six and counting you are not very distant from the end – you become more reflective.
Health Dr Madhu Pandey Singh, MD (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) Every so often we see news items about very large babies being born.
Nicholas Stern is Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a member of the UK House of Lords.
Enlarged gums ContinuedPet Corner Last week we placed focus on sore gums (gingivitis).
The View From Europe For the most part, the sovereign nations of the Caribbean tend to look past their near neighbours in the non-independent Carib-bean.
Chess It was fighting chess throughout the National Qualification Tournament to determine the participants for the National Championships.
A Gardener’s Diary In Guyana one can look forward to boiling hot days and sleepless night due to the heat, made tolerable only by slowly revolving fans. Plants
-despite being in business just over a year, dubious market penetration Just over a year after it was launched, the Guyana Times is already receiving over 19% of state ads each month when Stabroek News was not given a single one for 17 months because the government alleged that it did not have sufficient readership.
Think of libraries! There are all kinds and degrees from the smallest village library to the great libraries of the world.
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In the coming weeks I shall seek to establish why it is I believe that trade policy, at the global and national levels, represents the third and final important lesson to come out of recent worldwide efforts to cope with the global economic recession, financial crisis and credit crunch (squeeze).
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