Stabroek Weekend

Demerara Distillers Limited 30 June 2007 Interim Report Demerara Distillers Limited’s 2006 financial statements showed that cash and cash equivalents stood at an all time low.

In this week’s column I shall continue the discussion started last week on governance.

The gap between the Caribbean and Europe over the text of a regional Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is narrowing.

Of all the expressions of unconsolable loss I have read concerning the death of anyone greatly loved, the following lament by Henry James, the novelist, when his older brother, William James, the scientist and philosopher, died is the most heartfelt: “I sit heavily stricken and in darkness – for from far aback in dimmest childhood he had been my Elder Brother; and I still, through all the years, saw in him, even as a small timorous boy yet, my protector, my backer, my authority and my pride.

Oswald Hussein staged a sensationally dramatic entry into the top echelons of Guyanese art when he achieved a memorable victory in the National Visual Arts Exhibition of 1989.

Breast cancer is a cancer of the glandular breast tissue. Worldwide, breast cancer is the fifth most common cause of cancer death (after lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, and colon cancer).

I noticed recently I can’t see clearly up close. Why is that?

The month of October is designated Credit Union Month. October 15 is designated Credit Union Day.

It is claimed that it all began in the Bible with a man and a woman in a garden, and ended up with the kind of revelation with which we are all only too familiar.

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.