Stabroek Weekend

by Robert V McRae, CPA On the Line: Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Annual Report 2008 – revisite Background Several weeks ago the Bank of Guyana (BoG) publicly and the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) management privately in a letter to me, responded to a guest Business Page published in Stabroek News of April 12, 2009 under my name.

‘No ill or wrong will overmaster this’ There are some things that keep out the darkness that continually threatens in anyone’s life.

Across the Caribbean, from Guyana to Belize, once peaceful and well ordered societies have become hosts to narcotics trafficking, money laundering, extortion, gun crime, kidnapping, robbery with violence, and more recently, those who would support acts of international terrorism.

Interview with Mexican Ambassador Fernando Sandoval Ambassador Fernando Sandoval of Mexico presented his letters of credence to President Bharrat Jagdeo on February 26 this year.

Ear ailments Maladies of the ear flap (pinna) (Continued) 1.   Splitting of the ear tips Usually, an underlying infection or some other form of irritation (mange, foreign body stuck in the ear flap, horse fly bite, etc) can precipitate this condition which, as the name suggests, is a fissure (a split) on the tip of the ear.

The Consumer Protection Bill On Monday, May 11, 2009 the Consumers Affairs Division in the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce invited the Consumers Association to examine the Consumer Protection Bill 2006.

The Chelsea Flower Show The Chelsea Flower Show always takes place during the third week in May in the grounds of the Chelsea Royal Hospital, and as I write it will probably have ended.

Wayne Brown is a  well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica.

There have been some complaints about the very popular Radika Invasion, the latest in a long line of productions in Guyana featuring chutney-soca performers from Trinidad.

A young man’s game All other things being equal, confidence wins games.

The ‘whys’ and the woes of the stye By Dr Neeraj Jain, MBBS, MD (Ophthal), DNB, MNAMS What is a stye?

Conversation Tree has become a landmark on the East Coast Highway, and since some tree or other has been there for as long as anyone can remember, all kinds of myths have grown up surrounding its age and origins.

After the EPA: Lessons to be learnt There is a wise old adage: ‘Ne-ver cry over spilt milk.’

Legalising Poppy Growing in Afghanistan Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine who lived 460-357bc, concluded that diseases were naturally caused and were cured by natural remedies.

New challenges for the Caribbean By David Jessop ( Executive Director of the Caribbean Council for Europe) For much of the last week, European and Central American ministers and trade negotiators have been in dialogue in Prague and Brussels.

The addiction of competition And here is fascinating thought. Medical studies suggest that in situations of great stress, great danger, in a battle, for instance, with death a fraction away, the body is able to generate something akin to heroin.

There is a tide in the affairs of men… The Stabroek News of Sunday, April 26, 2009 carried a report on the Annual General Meeting of the New Building Society (NBS).

Why not a bit of flowering meadow? Some time ago I mentioned the depletion of fertilizers from our soil after heavy rainfall, and the loss of nutrients from our gardens and the fact that we have the opportunity to replace some of that loss.