Stabroek Weekend

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Early diagnosis of prostate cancer is very important and there is a great deal all men can do to safeguard their health Currently, there is no scientific consensus on effective strategies to reduce the risk of prostate cancer.

The Economic Partnership Agreement negotiated between the European Union and Cariforum came into force on January 1, 2008.1 have not, I confess, read all thousand pages of its main text, appendices, annexures and schedules.

“Small nations, big ambition”: These are the words used by the Chairman of a major European company to describe the recently initialled Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe.

Recap In order to wrap up the present discussion on money laundering, let me recap on what I have covered so far.

Gardening is a bit like weather forecasting (based more on probability than certainty).

It is 1914. Nicholas II, Czar of all the Russias, is hosting a great chess tournament arranged by the St Petersburg Chess Society.

At the end of 2007, Castel-lani House quite fittingly mounted an exhibition of gifts: artwork received by the gallery from individual and corporate donors.

Last week I mentioned that a German group of ladies were highlighting Guyana for the World Day of Prayer.

Appendicitis is a common and urgent surgical illness with different manifestations.

My baby has a white spot in her eye and the specialist says it’s a cataract.

I was flattered recently when Ian McDonald in his Sunday Stabroek column of December 16 challenged, “Anyone can mention a subject to Godfrey – sweeties, seawall or sugar estates or dominoes or the old D’Urban racetrack or anything you like – and hardly pausing Godfrey could produce a Nostalgia which will make you laugh and wonder, and say ‘yes that is how it was.'”

Now that we have entered into the fresh and new year, let’s continue discussing the newborn (puppies, that is).

Introduction The statement made by Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) in a letter published in the Sunday Stabroek of December 30, 2007 “reiterating” the position of the PSC that it wanted the government to continue the present and unjustifiable 16% VAT rate and to apply it to reforming (reducing?)

One minute you’re in 2007; the next you’re in 2008. The point at which the second hand of the clock moves off 12 is all the difference there is between any two years.

As a New Year’s promise I am resolved to carry out some soil acidity tests, and to give my roses a heavy dressing of well-rotted cow manure once the pruning has finally been completed.

Every nation and culture has a knowledge of where it has come from, an awareness of shared experience and a sense of its place in world.

In childhood a year is a very large part of a lifetime long – but by old age a year has become fragment – brief.

As has been emphasised in this column money laundering is associated with all types of illegal activities, not only those arising from organized crime.

As every pet owner knows, companion animals reciprocate love unconditionally and irrepressibly.