Stabroek Weekend

Infectious canine hepatitis Infectious canine hepatitis (ICH) is a highly contagious viral disease, which, as the name suggests, attacks predominantly dogs, although the virus is known to cause illness in foxes, wolves and coyotes.

Don’t refuse to accept the change to metric It’s metric time again.

Tournament to identify candidates for the National Championships begins Sunday The preliminary chess tournament to decide the candidates for participation in the National Championships begins next Sunday at the St Stanislaus College on Brickdam.

 Obama pulling away Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica.

The First World War (1914-1918) changed the course of human history in significant ways.

A weekly column prepared by Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital Inc. Key ‘whole’ surgery: changing with the timesBy Dr Anirban Banerjee, MS (General & Laparoscopic Surgeon) Laparoscopy and laparoscopic surgery Laparoscopy, also known as minimal invasive or keyhole surgery is a procedure used to examine the abdominal (belly) and pelvic organs and also to remove the diseased organ from the abdomen.

‘One year’s seed equals seven years’ weed’ Any man who calls a spade a spade ought to be forced to use one regularly.

Guyana: Trade-in-goods only In last week’s column I had indicated that I would for the next couple of weeks be evaluating the Guyana Consultation on the Cariforum-EC, EPA held on September 5 and its aftermath.

A bigger threat than terror We have to look forward to a long and terrible age of increasing and fearsome devastation. 

The institutional arrangements in the EPA are of importance Tucked away towards the end of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that will be signed shortly between the Caribbean and Europe is a section that deals with what are known as the institutional arrangements.

A look at the Trinidad and Tobago Budget 2008-09 It was like a baptism of heat for new Minister of Finance Karen Nunez-Tesheira of the twin island state of Trinidad and Tobago as she presented the first budget of the re-elected Patrick Manning government and more personally, her first since her surprise appointment as the country’s first female Minister of Finance.

By Legal Analyst In her letter in Stabroek News of September 22, 2008, which responded to allegations of unconstitutional delay by the President in assenting to certain parliamentary bills, Minister Gail Teixeira makes, and repeats, an interesting observation.

One of the fond memories of my childhood involves my grandmother, who, I believe, was a woman way ahead of her time.

Hail Mary passes Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica.

Danger to swimmers! On Sunday September 7, 2008, a glorious Sunday, 23-year-old Gloria Nedd and her boyfriend, Royston Seecharan, went to the sea-shore between Pegasus and the jetty for a swim in the Atlantic.

Some plants can be propagated using leaf cuttings In the middle of September the nights get particularly cold in England, and further north in Scotland it is not unusual to experience the first frosts.

‘My life, my country’ There exists a slim, neat volume of some fifty pages, unobtrusive and unheralded, whose worth is several times more than its unassuming appearance and deserving of much more attention than it has ever been given. 

Distemper Here is another disease against which we can vaccinate, thus offering our dogs meaningful protection.

The hard burn of heartburn By Dr Ritesh Kohli, MD (Consultant Internal Medicine) What is GERD?