Stabroek Weekend

Ivan Crandon, former chairman of the Police Service Commission, president of the Guyana Legion and a military veteran of World War II, died on 27 September, aged 80.

The King’s Plaza Hotel, the Tower Hotel and the Ocean Spray Hotel are the venues for the 2007 National Chess Championships which begin on Saturday and go until the third week in November.

Last week, the column entertained the thoughts of a guest contributor, Dr Nicholas Waldron, on a very current issue which is provoking a furore, some of which is uninformed.

The current issues associated with the recent mauling of a citizen by a Pit Bull have promoted all sorts of emotions – some rational, others way off the radars of logic and scientific facts.

Recap In last week’s column I introduced the political economy of Guyana as the fourth distinctive feature of the state as it is presently being reconstituted into what I have termed a “vehicle for criminal enterprise.”

Introduction This time of year could be said to be earnings season for Guyana: the deadline for interim results ending 30 June looms and those companies with September year-ends start publishing their full-year results.

Cancer varies with the individual. The treatment and effectiveness of the treatment varies between patients even with the same type of cancer.

It is time to pull article 29 from its hiding place in the latest Constitution of Guyana (2002) and let all sporting organizations, all those who give assistance to sporting events, all Insurance Companies and other business places know that it is illegal to discriminate against women.

Language is what most distinctly differentiates man from animal. In his journey from slime to stars language has been the one essential tool that has accompanied man all the way.

What may be called Indian theatre in Guyana has had recent periods of ascendancy with more activity and more positive signals than in previous years.

A fundamental change is taking place in the global role of agriculture.

My child is blind and I was told he should learn braille.

You would hardly believe that the petunia could be a close relative of the potato, tomato, and tobacco, but it is a fact.

The ‘Chess In Schools’ programme, which has been assiduously promoted by this column and vigorously supported by Dr Frank Anthony, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport and Neil Kumar, Director of Sport, is quickly becoming a reality.

There are none so deaf as those who will not hear.

The first thing that we must decide upon is whether there, in fact, exists a problem during the giving-birth period (parturition).

This last few weeks have been really very hot, blisteringly so, and gardeners everywhere are looking forward to some relief.

In the face of a wide range of contending factors it is not easy to single out one as the most important contributor to the development of Guyanese theatre.

On Saturday evening, Sep-tember 29, it was all over. India’s Viswanathan Anand drew his 14th.

The optometrist told me my son is not seeing because of a scar in the back of the eye from toxoplasmosis.