Stabroek Weekend

To the average person, asthma means difficulty in breathing. Although asthma may occur for many different reasons, in this article we will discuss the most common form of this condition – bronchial asthma.

The eminent West Indian Nobel laureate Sir Arthur Lewis did not hide his disappointment in delivering his address at his installation as Chancellor of the University of Guyana in January 1967.

It was on August 19 this year that I chose as my topic for this column capacity building.

As you all know roses are very vigorous growers, and always seem to prefer to be planted out in the ground rather than confined for their lives in containers which they quickly outgrow.

How often should I check my eyes? It is difficult to function in society as a visually impaired person.

were some who ran one way were some who ran another way were some who did not run at all were some who will not run again.

A general meeting to re-establish the Guyana Chess Federation will be held on Monday, February 18, 2008 from 6 pm at the Ocean Spray Hotel, Vlissengen Road.

Last week we considered the first contentions plank on which the EPA is based.

There are always tragedies in the world. The children of Somalia with flies settling on their dying, emaciated faces make us turn away from the TV screen with grief and horror.

There is no making sense of the events of Saturday, January 26; events that have added yet another bloodstained blotch to our country’s history.

The World Day of Prayer (WDP) is celebrated on the first Friday in March and not in February as I incorrectly reported in my column in Sunday Stabroek on January 6 this year.

The first contentious plank of the EPA is its emphasis on reciprocity and trade liberalization between regions of vastly unequal development levels and capacities and 2) arriving at an agreement on many unresolved issues at the WTO, with the Doha Round of negotiations still incomplete.

I hadn’t seen them for half of the Christmas week, the egrets, and no one told me why they had gone, but they are back with the rain now, orange beak, pink shanks and stabbing head, back on the lawn where they used to be in the clear, limitless rain of the Santa Cruz valley, which, when it rains, falls steadily against the cedars till it mists the plain.

Should we believe the optimism of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Direc-tor General Pascal Lamy, when he suggests that global trade talks in the Doha Round are on their last lap and can be completed by the year’s end?

While most people think that having an anaesthetic is akin to being asleep, there are numerous operations that can be performed without being asleep.

The optometrist says my mom has low vision. What does this mean?

I can hardly believe that we are already in the month of February.

Yes acne. Of course, we should call it by its real name: Puppy Pyoderma, or Pyogenic Dermatitis.

A press release from Universal Event Promo-tions (UEP) in Germany has announced that World Chess champion Viswana-than Anand (India) will defend his title against Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) in Bonn, Germany from October 11-October 30, 2008.

Cost and benefits Export allowances were introduced as an incentive for companies engaged in foreign exchange earnings, and looking at the countries where they are still available several years after their introduction, there must be some doubt as to whether they have achieved their objective.