Stabroek Weekend

The year 2007 has been a difficult one for our consumers.

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

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world CAMBRIDGE – Will the political resurgence of labour unions throw a wrench into the wheels of globalization?

Dr Vaughan Lewis, a native of St Lucia, is the Professor of International Relations of the Caribbean at the Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad.

The statistics are shocking: One in seven women in the United States will be treated for pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) over the course of her lifetime.

I’m 41 and my optometrist told me I need bifocals. I don’t want the old-fashioned ones with the lines.

Introduction As civil society in Guyana has taken – or rather been given – an increasing role in public-spirited tasks such as fighting floods, AIDS, poverty and discrimination – perceived and real – providing legal aid or cheap meals for the poor, those civil society organisations seeking to formalise and institutionalise themselves face more than the usual challenges of resource limitation and fundraising.

From today Mr Christopher Ram, the senior partner of Ram and Mc Rae resumes authorship of the Sunday Business Page.

Tomorrow this tired old year will give birth to a brand new one.

I started to see blurry and the optometrist told me I am beginning to get something called keratoconus.

The publication of a list of the most serious concerns faced by consumers during the current year may, with a little luck, induce some improvements for the coming year.

Overfeeding – continued We had begun dealing with this last week.

What is pterygium? A pterygium is a wedge-shaped fibro vascular growth of the conjunctiva (the surface tissue of the white of the eye) that extends onto the cornea.

It was on Sunday, March 18, that two chess players took a daring step and announced a chess tournament; the first for well over a decade.

Introduction This will be my last column as a regular writer for these pages.

It is reported that as many as 20,000 politicians, officials, international functionaries, journalists and activists attended the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, better known as the Bali Conference.

PARIS – Once, as I picked up the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen at his hotel, the receptionist asked me if I was his driver.

Last week I exposed several of the myths and fallacies surrounding money laundering operations in Guyana.

One of the significant things to be noted about social traditions is that the ancient ones are fading and tend to be somewhat cryptic.

Last week’s column intimated that at least three items we have been discussing for some time now, are directly related to the significant roles played by two of the World Economic Forum’s “problematic factors,” namely, “crime and theft” and “corruption” in the poor results obtained by Guyana in the 2007-2008 Global Competitiveness Report.