Stabroek Weekend

Knee replacement surgery in the elderly

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.

Wayne Brown
Wayne Brown

In the US racist hysteria grows

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.

Since he returned from Barbados earlier this year, Wendell Meusa has won four chess tournaments so far for 2009, more than anyone else. Recently, he took the DDL Topco Juice Emancipation tournament without conceding a game. In photo, Kenrick Brathwaite (right), Secretary of the Guyana Chess Federation, presents Meusa with his cheque and first prize trophy at the conclusion of the tournament.
Since he returned from Barbados earlier this year, Wendell Meusa has won four chess tournaments so far for 2009, more than anyone else. Recently, he took the DDL Topco Juice Emancipation tournament without conceding a game. In photo, Kenrick Brathwaite (right), Secretary of the Guyana Chess Federation, presents Meusa with his cheque and first prize trophy at the conclusion of the tournament.

Essequibo teachers and students should share what they learnt

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.

Centennial dinner, 2009, with Prime Minister Samuel Hinds

Scouting in Guyana 1909 to 2009

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.” 

Miscellaneous ailments of the nose

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.

Keeping score on Obama

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.

Poverty, anger fuelled Nigerian sect uprising

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.

Gaiety cinema burnt 1926

The rise and fall of Guyana’s cinemas

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.

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