Stabroek Weekend

Gardening in the tropics, including gardening in Guyana, often gets quick results that would take several seasons to achieve in a temperate country.

Change is inevitable and consumers should be prepared to accept the changes as they come.

When babies are born until they are around 7 years old, the brain is developing and improving the visual pathways between the eye and the visual cortex of the brain to give us sharp vision.

Umbilical hernia This is also called the navel hernia. We had already defined a hernia as a displacement of an organ or a part of an organ so that it protrudes through the walls of its containing cavity.

According to a recent news item (circulated by Reuters) in January 2008 academics in Germany believe they have “solved the centuries old mystery behind the identity of the Mona Lisa in Leonardo da Vinci’s famous portrait.”

Destiny perhaps, determined that some element of the great game of chess should feature significantly in the expiration of Bobby Fischer – Fischer, that iconoclastic self-taught genius who singlehandedly challenged the establishment and broke the powerful Soviet stranglehold on chess.

This is Game Six in the Fischer-Spassky match of 1972 in Iceland.

Introduction Following the Business Page article in Sunday Stabroek (13.1.08), which criticised the way the Private Sector Commission advocates on behalf of its members, the commission reacted by a clarifying press statement, without reference to the article and in a measured tone.

I do not like what happened in the EU-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement.

Until about a week ago I had never heard of carbon border taxes.

In setting the stage last week for a critical evaluation of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union (EU) and CARIFORUM (Caricom plus the Dominican Republic) I presented a schedule listing 15 “contentious planks,” on which the agreement is premised.

Most jobs are done because they have to be done – to earn a living, support a family, get on in the world, secure the future.

Not since William Demas’s anguished personal communication on the occasion of his discovery of the neo-conservative proposal known as the ‘Shiprider Solution: Policing the Caribbean’ in the Spring 1996 issue of the National Interest, which he circulated to those whom (I have since come to learn) represented every thinking West Indian he could reach, has there been such profound intellectual unease about the future direction of the region.

Introduction In a dramatic message, one of Barbados’ most successful prime ministers and perhaps a driving force behind the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME), was told unequivocally by voters this week – time for a change.

The world virtually buzzed last week with the ‘news’ that Christopher Columbus might have also ‘discovered’ syphilis in the new world and taken it to the old.

It was a smart move by a former government – I believe it was the Burnham government – to amend the Income Tax legislation to make it possible for the Income Tax Commissioner to assess taxpayers with unduly high assessments and prevent their appeals to the Board of Review unless a substantial part of the assessment was paid in advance.

The Guyana Annual 2007-2008, edited by Petamber Persaud and published by Guyenterprise (printed by Ramsaywack Arjun Printers and Graphics with layout and design by Robert Hoban) has been released, and went into general circulation following an official launching at Castellani House on Friday January 11.

Last week I was in Nassau. There I had the opportunity to listen to an address by the Bahamian Prime Minister, Hubert Ingraham, who recently assumed the role of Chairman of Caricom.

I’m concerned about cataracts. Should I wear sunglasses? In the eye, one of the structures involved in focusing the light onto the retina is called the lens.

We won’t deal with those maladies that affect puppies as well as older dogs, eg parvovirus, canine distemper, leptospirosis, etc.