Daily Features

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at the forgotten scoreboard from the 1981 Shell Shield Match between Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.

T20 cricket, the way it has developed, is unbalanced in favour of batsmen.

One thing you need to get into your mind is that fitness results don’t happen by chance.

The term ‘fried’ in this recipe refers to the style of cooking we Guyanese employ when we talk about cooking vegetables – fried pumpkin, fried callaloo etc.

Mandevilla, a tropical beauty commonly called Rock Trumpet, originated in the forest of Brazil and comes from the Apocynaceae family Most Mandevilla species are also native to Central and South America Mandevilla was named after a British diplomat and gardener Henry Mandeville, who came across the species in this continent in the 18th century.

Following six rounds of scintillating chess, the Sinquefield Cup is off to a brilliant start in St Louis, Missouri.

The Least Grebe is a very small waterbird often found near freshwater ponds and marshes. 

The first time I was confronted with the reality of child sexual abuse was during my early teens.

This is brevity today. I promise. But every ten months or so I find reasonable cause to comment on our local trade unionism.

The silence is noticeably deafening. After all it’s very late Sunday, close to midnight, in a rather serious suburb in  northern western Trinidad, when I hear the shout from down Upper Conaree, “Where my Warriors family…?.”

It is about time that a country which faces substantial border problems on two fronts pays some attention to border studies and research.

Judging from the disastrous news surrounding the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the best thing that could happen to Latin American countries—or perhaps to all countries that apply to be hosts of future Olympic Games—is to lose their bids, and save themselves from a monumental waste of money.

By Mark Schuller   Mark Schuller is Associate Professor of at Northern Illinois University and affiliate at the Faculté d’Ethnologie, l’Université d’État d’Haïti.

It is easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.

Photos and interviews by Dhanash Ramroop With the growing popularity of T20 cricket, does test cricket have a future?

Introduction As I have opined before, the microeconomic information supplied in last Sunday’s column, depicting employment levels within the extractive forest sub-sector, generally conforms to what might have been anticipated, given the weak, erratic, and declining economic returns exhibited by the sub-sector, when analyzed from a macroeconomic/national accounts perspective, for the decade 2006-2015.

Combined efforts Having seen what has happened over the years to many economies of oil-producing countries, the thought has crossed the minds of many Guyanese as to what oil will do to this country.

I find it hard to believe that Donald Trump – whose candidacy was declared a year ago seemed a bad joke – is the Republican nominee for the presidency of the United States.

The official information is that Guyana’s petroleum deposits are estimated to be equivalent to 800 million to 1.4 billion barrels of oil from the results of two wells.

As has been widely reported, Cuba has entered a new period of austerity.