Stabroek Weekend

By Dr Amit Verma, MD (Anaesthesiology) Coccydynia is a painful condition of the human tail bone which is the lower-most bone in our vertebral column (backbone).

A consumer telephoned to complain about Guyana Power and Light (GPL).

  ‘He who would accomplish little must   sacrifice little; he who would achieve much   must sacrifice much; he who would attain   highly, must sacrifice greatly.’

Gingivitis (Sore gums) Continued Last week, it was promised that we would continue our discussion on gingivitis (sore gums) with the treatment of this ailment.

Dramatic and other theatrical productions in Guyana have always had little intermittent ‘seasons’ during which there is a varied menu of different offerings in between long periods of inactivity. 

By J. Bradford DeLong J Bradford DeLong is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

For decades Europe has sought to establish an overarching policy relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean.

When I was still a youngster I was introduced to my first encyclopaedia of gardening which was written by TW Sanders. 

Business Page Introduction How can a financial institution that just a few months ago boasted about a “liquidity of 40% of the total assets or 47% of members’ funds, a position exceeding the approved industry standard” – whatever that means – suddenly start telling current and potential loan customers to come back in six to eight months time?

Ian On Sunday At thirteen, I think it was, I was reading love poetry.

Guyana and the wider world Optimism The current state of the global economic crisis, one year after the financial meltdown of last September (2008), provides a crucial backdrop for consideration of the third, and final lesson to be learnt from global and national efforts to cope with economic recession, financial crisis and the credit squeeze.

To change an established street name is not something which is ever lightly done in any civilized country.

Arts On Sunday Critic, poet and scholar Eddie Baugh observed in 1971 that Caribbean poetry had unquestionably established itself.  

A Gardener’s Diary The largest seed most of us has to handle in Guyana is the coconut.

The View From Europe Nearly two decades ago, a former Caribbean minister with an unconventional background would try to shock those that he met into recognising that agriculture in the region was dying and that it was the services sector that represented the future.

Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Israeli foreign minister who now serves as the vice-president of the Toledo International Centre for Peace, is the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy.

Stomatitis (sore mouth) Pet CornerContinued Two weeks ago, we dealt with the symptoms and treatment of the classical stomatitis (‘sore mouth’) condition.

Health (Part-2) By Dr Kiran Koora, MDS The nutrition connection Eating sugar, as you probably already know, is a major cause of tooth decay.

Chess The elimination process for determining a national champion of chess for Guyana is underway. 

The scales are balanced heavily against local consumers when they purchase local fruit.