Stabroek Weekend

Arrival Day was imaginative this year By Al Creighton Guyana’s Arrival Day was commemorated on May 5 with a series of events leading up to the weekend in celebration of Indian Arrival. 

By Stanley Greaves Wordsworth Albert MacAndrew is among those I refer to as a “Guy-anist,” one who exemplifies to a high degree love of country and all its people without any exemptions or reservations.

Hookworms By Dr Steve Surujbally I suppose all worms are, in one way or another, pernicious.

Jamaica’s government is showing vision and leadership over CubaBy David JessopOn May 4, Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, plus the island’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kenneth Baugh and its Ministers of Tourism, Agriculture, Housing and Health travelled to Havana.

Eye donation: The gift of sight By Dr Neeraj Jain, MBBS, MD (ophthalmology), DNB, MNAMS What is eye donation?

Covering the coverage By Wayne Brown It’s what the media often does: hype a story out of all proportion; fall to believing its own hype; and then be deeply dismayed to discover its audience has moved on, leaving it enisled in its own vaporous excitement.

It’s wisteria and honey suckle time in England By John Warrington It’s wisteria and honeysuckle time in England.

Caribbean nations need to create consensus-driven models of development By David Jessop (Executive Director of the Caribbean Council for Europe) ‘International NGO knocks EPA’; ‘Caribbean EPA held up as a model’; ‘Bernal departs Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery’: so read just three of the many thousands of headlines that accompany the hundreds of thousands of words about the Caribbean’s soon to be signed Economic Partnership Agreement with Europe.

With Errol Tiwari Demerara Distillers Limited will sponsor an eight-round Swiss System chess tournament this month for junior and senior chess players in recognition of Guyana’s 42nd independence anniversary under its popular Topco Juices label.

Derek Walcott: Distinguished Guest at Carifesta By Al Creighton’s As the focus on Carifesta X, to be hosted by Guyana in August 22-31, 2008, intensifies, there is increasing interest in what the highlights of the festival are likely to be.

The advantages of grafting By John Warrington Looking back through one of my journals I read a note I made a few years ago about my Pandanus baptistii screw pine which had finally died.

Wordsworth McAndrew, November 22, 1936-April 25, 2008 (Wordsworth Albert McAndrew, folklorist and journalist, died on April 25, 2008, aged 71.)

‘Et tu, Brute?’ The CW among American commentators is that anything a candidate or his/her surrogate does or says is ‘political.’

The law should be changed to protect citizens against dangerous dogs  By Eileen Cox Much has been said and much written about pit bulls and dangerous dogs.

 Roundworms By Dr Steve Surujbally (Continued) Today we’ll look at the specific symptoms of a roundworm infestation of our canine/feline wards, as well as comment on the possible treatment schedules associated with this scourge.

Limb lengthening A weekly column prepared by Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital Inc.

Can the EPAs be re-strategized?  By Dr. Clive Thomas Re-cap This series of articles assessing the CARIFORUM-EU, EPA sought to establish early on that the agreement rested on several contentious planks as a result of being based on: 1) lack of empirical evidence supporting several theoretical propositions implicit to its formulation;  2) several of the evaluations, assessments and interpretations utilized in the EPA are in strong dispute, lacking consensus among analysts and scholars and 3) design and architectural flaws, including those embedded in  its negotiating modalities.

  Planning for the good life   By Ian McDonald Having retired after 52 years in the sugar industry, including working closely with governments and regional institutions along the way, if there is one thing I have learned it is the extreme frailty of all grand plans.