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Celery originated from the Mediterranean. It was originally used for medicinal purposes as the seeds contain oil.

Guyana’s participation at the important 2014 Norway Chess Olympiad, scheduled for the beginning of August, represents a milestone for the sprinkling of local practitioners of the ancient game.

Continued from last week In last week’s column, in my haste to conclude the painful and distressing topic of tumours/cancers, I omitted mentioning two of the most frequent ailments in our tumour/cancer discussions, namely those associated with the vagina and the breast.

Butter Potatoes are simply potatoes cooked in butter. They make an elegant side dish and I generally reserve them for making at holidays or on special occasions.

The glittering sapphire jewel weaving though the dark, humid forest is not an illusion.

Killed on a city street in our capital while committing a robbery earlier this week, Kevin Fields achieved the kind of notoriety in death that he seemed determined to attain during his young life.

Two most brief lecturettes today as senior years muse on values and virtues lost, providing origins and causes for our socio-national decline.

How could we cultivate and foster goodwill in our nation? We see each other through broken lenses of distrust, suspicion and across divides.

  This Ask the Consul article addresses the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) Section 212(a)(6)(C)(i) visa ineligibility for non-immigrant and immigrant visa applicants.

Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change to submit a weekly column on local government and related matters.

No one vaguely familiar with liberal foreign policy analysis could fail to ponder the possibility of an expanding liberal zone of peace.

The 2012 preliminary census report – already two years late – is probably more famous for what it conceals than what it reveals.

By Reginald Dumas Reginald Dumas received his academic education at the Chaguanas Government School, Queen’s Royal College, Cambridge University, and the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales (Graduate Institute of International Studies), Geneva, Switzerland.

The recent award of the contract for the expansion of the East Coast Demerara Road from Better Hope to Belfield has attracted much criticism from the Opposition political parties.

This week we asked Lindeners to comment on the state of the roads in their various communities.

Introduction   Alongside the debates about the roles/functions of government in the Guyana economy, there has been another equally enduring economic debate as to whether presently the government is too big, too little, or just about right-sized.

A little over a week ago, Cari-com Heads of Government met in Antigua.

Whitefish refers to any fish that has white flesh. However, the texture of the flesh can vary from delicate to medium to firm when cooked.

Inconsistent   The disclosure that another hotel with an international brand will be built in Guyana has raised once again questions as to what the government’s real interest is in encouraging such types of foreign investment in Guyana.

The census figures substantially confirm the analysis I made in an article ‘The future of the PPP’ published in November, 2012.