Health
By Dr Tejaz K. John, MBBS, MS (Orth) Joint Replacement Fellowship Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon)Knee replacement surgery can help relieve pain and restore function in arthritic and severely diseased knee joints in the elderly.
In Our Time
It’s a thought to madden a Manichaean, but the usual outcome of any struggle between ‘good’ and ‘evil’ isn’t victory for one or the other, but stalemate.
Chess
The Guyana Chess Federation continues to foster the enhancement of chess countrywide by reaching out to those communities which never had an opportunity to learn and play the ancient game.
Nostalgia 460
By Godfrey Chin
“On my honour, I promise that I will do my best, to do my duty, to God and my country, to help other people, and to keep the scout law.”
Consumer Concerns
The Special Select Committee of the National Assembly earlier this year invited submissions dealing with the impact of global food price increases.
Pet Corner
By Dr Steve Surujbally
Rhinitis
Any inflammatory process (whether sudden = acute, or present for a long period of time = chronic) of the nasal passages may be termed a rhinitis.
Chess
The national qualification chess tournament for entry into the national championships promises to be a long exhausting struggle, as participants compete for one of seven places to progress into the nationals.
In Our Time
Six months ago, Barack Obama came to office with his plate overflowing: a stricken US economy, two wars, and ambitious (and politically expensive) plans to reform health care and move the US towards (clean) energy independence.
LAGOS (Reuters) – An uprising by a radical Islamic sect in northern Nigeria may ostensibly have been about religion but such bloodletting will recur unless underlying issues of poverty, unemployment and education are addressed.
Guyana and the wider world
In last week’s column (July 26) I had urged the importance of the symbolism for developing countries, which the United Nations Conference on the Global Financial and Economic Crisis held in New York, last June represented.
Nostalgia
Part 2
Gone with the Wind…By Godfrey Chin
In 1939 David O Selznick produced Gone with the Wind, winner of 9 Academy Awards and one of the best movies ever made, and the biggest box Office Draw until Spielberg Jaws in 1975.