Stabroek Weekend

Naming is not knowingBy Ian McDonald In Guyana getting a good education is defined as getting good exam results.

The region’s new global development partner By David Jessop In the past week Venezuela has clearly emerged as by far the Caribbean Basin’s single most important global development partner.

With Errol Tiwari Carlsen v Eljanov Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, plays host to one of the most fancied invitational chess tournaments in the world in January of each year.

War and literature By Al Creighton’s Here in the twenty-first century wars, insurgencies, terrorist violence, guerrilla warfare, genocidal dislocation, massacres, murderous attacks against humanity, war crimes and criminal carnage of various sorts rage unchecked right in your backyard. 

GT&T sends letter to its Essequibo customersBy Eileen Cox Some time ago this column published a report on the state of the telephone service on the Essequibo Coast, Region 2. 

Sexually transmitted diseases: The ‘deeper’ and the ‘darker’ insight By Dr Soumyaroop Dash  MD,  DNB (Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist) What is a sexually transmitted disease (STD)?

Immunity By Dr Steve  Surujbally I had said last week that one cannot really understand the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases if the concept of immunity is not grasped.

A mini-pumpkin and morning glory By John Warrington I often think that with a climate like ours you could almost live forever.

Covering Obama A year ago, his saying that in ‘hot pursuit’ he would breach Pakistan’s sovereignty to attack bin Laden is snatched up by Hillary Clinton as a ‘gotcha’ moment.

Much ado about little: Biofuels and climate change By Dr Clive Thomas Last week I labelled as risky business, the drive by governments to make the production of biofuels mandatory. 

Another try at preventing money-laundering By Christopher Ram Introduction The current select committee review of Bill No 18 of 2007 Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Bill 2007 took me back to the Hansard report of the debate on The Money Laundering (Prevention) Bill 1998 which was piloted by then Attorney General Charles Ramson when he famously announced how proud he was to be associated with a government that had “zero tolerance for corruption.”

All about Obama By Wayne Brown As the reader may have noticed, this year’s presidential election is almost entirely about Barack Obama — so much so  that poor John McCain only ever seems able to get attention when he’s talking about the junior senator from Illinois — a fact that’s, ironically, resented by both sides.

Reflections at the Seven Ponds By Ian McDonald Long ago when David Rose died under forty tons of iron scaffolding in London and came home for his state burial it was the time of Diwali and it was night when they bore him into town from Timehri.

The match of all time With Errol Tiwari The following story is inspired by an interview I had with Iceland’s Ambassa-dor to Guyana, His Excellency Hjalmar Hannesson.

A vintage act in an appropriate setting By Al Creighton As Guyana steadily steps up the pace towards Carifesta X, the nation presented one of its vintage acts in a very appropriate and significant setting.

The region is on the verge of disintegration By David Jessop Is the Caribbean, as one of the region’s elder statesmen recently noted to me, about to enter the darkest period in its history since the collapse of the West Indies Federation?

Be a responsible pet owner By Eileen Cox The Guyana Society for the Preven-tion of Cruel-ty to Animals has kindly provided an article on ‘How to be a responsible Pet Owner.’ 

Computer Vision Syndrome – from the eye doctor’s window By Dr Neeraj Jain MD (ophthal), DNB, MNAMS (Consultant Ophthalmologist) Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) is described as a group of eye and vision-related problems that result from prolonged computer use.

More factors influencing infectious diseases By Dr Steve Surujbally (Continued) 6.