Stabroek Weekend

For me, chess is life and every game is like a new life.

Op-ed celebrating International Women’s Day On a trip to China eleven years ago, I met with women activists who told me about their efforts to advance conditions for women in their country.

Hi Everyone, One main ingredient, with very similar modes of preparation, creates two dishes that represent two different religious foods in Guyana.

If a loss of public moneys should occur and, at the time of that loss, a Minister or official has caused or contributed to that loss through misconduct or through deliberate or serious disregard of reasonable standards of care, that Minister or official shall be personally liable to the Government for the amount of the loss.

By Andres Oppenheimer When I told a friend from Latin America recently that I had just seen a new movie called Slumdog Millionaire, he looked at me as if I were living in the Stone Age − he had seen it a long time ago, on a pirated DVD.

Recession proof! The grimness of the global economic environment is so intense that those who shout “make-believe” economics will sooner, rather than later as the saying goes: “have to eat their words.”

(Executive Director of the Caribbean Council for Europe) The global order is changing. 

The world is bankrupt. The Great Regulator in the Sky for some good reason has put His people everywhere into receivership and the impact will be more devastating and more universal than the Flood.

The year 2009 has seen the very important return of The Link Show to the Guyanese stage. 

The end of February saw the heaviest snowfalls in England for 18years, and there is more to come.

Continued Cataracts If the lens of the eye loses its transparency, for whatever reason, one can speak of a cataract. 

A weekly column by Dr Balwant Singh’s Hospital Inc By Dr Balwant Singh Jr Perhaps the principal reason male menopause has never been in the public spotlight is because men who experience the characteristic decline in virility during middle age are reluctant or even unwilling to acknowledge the condition.

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

On February 14, Parliament Office published an invitation to the public for written and oral submissions on the ‘Impact of Global Food Price Increases.’

Stanford 20/20 smoke and mirrors and an update on Clico Introduction The columns of Business Page have reported on far more financial scandals that it would have liked.

The Caribbean has to look beyond the pain of the economic crisis and ask what kind of model they wish to have Whatever the outcome, it is clear that the case brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission against Sir Allen Stanford in relation to some US$8B of certificates of deposit sold through Stanford International Bank (SIB), has resulted in a huge reputational blow with far-reaching and long-term consequences for Antigua, the region and its financial services industry.

Leaders and language: There is a close correlation between the inspiring use of language and getting great deeds done.

Budget 2009: From ‘voodoo’ to ‘make-believe’ economics ‘Voodoo economics’ Economics is essentially a discipline based on commonsensical principles and ideas.

Eye ailments Continued So far, we have discussed problems associated only with the ‘outer eye’ (the eyelids, the cornea, etc).