Stabroek Weekend

Chess At 18, Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is ranked number four in the world.

The Business Page Introduction After all the fears of economic Armaged-don, the Great Depression Mark II and no recovery until after mid-2010, the economies of the world have bounced back, and for the economists at least, the recession is over.

Latin View SINGAPORE — Perusing the newsstand in the Hong Kong airport on my way here, I saw something that caught my eye: most of the books were about China and Asia’s allegedly unstoppable rise to the world’s foremost superpower.

Ian On Sunday The memory of man is astonishing and mysterious.

Guyana and the wider world Recap There is no known way of successfully preventing future global economic crises and their negative impacts.

Health A weekely column prepared by Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital Inc.

Consumer Concerns As children, our parents instilled in us certain sayings that were meant to guide us through life.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australians Lesley and Doug  McGrath have for decades battled ocean swells that have eaten  away at the backyard of their multi-million dollar Sydney home.

Chess World chess champion Vishy Anand paid a surprise visit to Botswana three weeks ago as a guest of the Indian technology company NIIT, and the Botswana Chess Federation.

Arts On Sunday AJ Seymour started the prestigious Edgar Mittelholzer Lecture Series in 1976 with a narrative of how he received a visit from the ghost of Mittelholzer which gave him much insight into the man and his work. 

Pet Corner Last week we dealt with the symptoms of ailments in the mouth. 

In Our Time Seventy years ago last week, the armies of Hitler swept into Poland, in the opening act of what would soon be World War II.

The View From Europe By David Jessop (Executive Director of the Caribbean Council for Europe)In Europe and North America, governments and regulatory authorities are still debating how best to manage the behaviour of  financial institutions that have become so large that should they fail, their operations would pose a systemic risk to the nations in which they are located.

A Gardener’s Diary The dry season still seems to be producing a little rain but mainly during the night. 

Guyana and the wider world Expansionary impact Expansionary impact We saw last week that despite the high level of recognition readers have for stimulus packages as an economic policy tool, what it takes to make government spending a true stimulus is not widely recognised.

Ian On sunday In 2007 as many as 20,000 politicians, officials, international functionaries, journalists and activists attended the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, better known as the Bali Conference.

Jorge Lanzaro is Professor at the Institute of Political Science, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

A Gardener’s Diary I am presently in England again having been coopted into the heavy gang to move my son’s belongings from the London University hall of residence near the Strand to a place not many miles away in Clerkenwell,  in readiness for the start of his masters degree at University College London in October.

In Our Time Some time around midnight on July 18, 1969 (easy to remember the date, since it was my 25th birthday), on Chappaquiddick Island off Martha’s Vineyard, a ’67 Oldsmobile drove off the rail-less Dike Bridge, flipped and sank upside down in an inlet.

Pet Corner Over the last few weeks, we have been discussing problems associated with the lips in particular.