Stabroek Weekend

Last week I listed the 12 different pillars on which the Global Competitiveness Index is based.

One of the more striking developments over the last eighteen months or so has been the rise and rise of investment interest in the Caribbean region.

When I first met J A (Tony) Downes, he was the youngest recruit, as a Booker cadet, into the early ranks of personnel officers of the then Bookers Sugar Estates.

By any measure, William de Weever Wishart (1873-1955) was one of this country’s most outstanding citizens.

This week we will conclude our three-part series on heart disease.

T he Last of the Redmen by Michael Gilkes will take its place, with The Legend of Kaieteur and Miriamy, at the summit of Guyanese cultural achievement on the stage.

In the concluding paragraph in his article entitled ‘Competition in the CSME needs a National Quality Infrastructure’ Dr Chatterpaul Ramcharan referred to the need for Guyanese manufacturers to overcome their reluctance and resistance and implement a quality management system which complies with the ISO 9001 international standard for the smaller enterprises which cannot reach the quality management system demanded of larger enterprises.

One of America’s most interesting and most modernist playwrights, Edward Albee, wrote a drama called The American Dream in which he directs one of his characteristic satirical gazes at the great ideal that he names in his title.

Being able to see though the fog of war and to think forward to a future beyond, is what sets apart great statesmen and women.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited September 30,2007 Annual Report It comes as somewhat of a shock that Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited’s (RBL) full year earnings increased just $59M over the $1,036M earned in the first three quarters of the financial year.

Life-style changes are an important part of any treatment regimen for the prevention of heart disease.

My baby looks as if he has crossed eyes. Will he grow out of it?

A talk given by Stanley Greaves to students of the Critchlow Labour College in Georgetown, Guyana on Tuesday, October 2, 2007.

It is hard to believe that the rain forests of the Amazon can be very dry places.

The National Chess Champion-ships come to a close today with the final two rounds being played at the Ocean Spray Hotel on Vlissengen Road.

We have reached the stage where the pups have been born, and we must now care for them during this harrowing period of their first few weeks of life.

This weekend, the National Chess Championships of Guyana will be decided.

The economic powerhouses of the world are still hoping to revive the DOHA round of WTO trade negotiations.

One of the most difficult aspects of writing about the negotiations with Europe for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is that events at a government level that are shaping their outcome may well have moved on by the time this appears in print.

Despite the cost of living increasing 2.7 times since 1992 – the US$ exchange rate has only increased 1.6 times Increase in the cost of living since 1992 A Stabroek Business article “Our purchasing power has fallen” (2 November 2007) prompted me to investigate the cost of living in Guyana.