Daily Features

Declining fortunes This is no time for naysayers to gloat about the declining fortunes of the gold industry and the conundrum of the rice industry.

Two weeks ago, on ACP day – an event to the best of my knowledge not widely celebrated – an unusually frank and honest lecture was delivered at the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM).

Continued from last week Haematomas/Seromas I had promised last week (and the week before) to deal with ear haematomas.

A fair number of elite grandmasters, including world champion Magnus Carlsen, Anand, Caruana, Karjakin and Judit Polgar have been doing chess battle at the World Rapid and Blitz championships in Dubai, UAE.

The Black capped donocobius is a cheerful and conspicuous bird along the canals in the Botanical Gardens in Georgetown. 

I am sure that it has not escaped your consciousness that most of the recipes shared in ‘In Good Taste’ are based on experimentations.

Cassia fistula commonly called Golden Shower tree or Indian Laburnum as its name suggests, originated from the Indian sub-continent and South-east Asia.

It’s no secret that the quality of education being offered at President’s College has deteriorated.

Hello friends, today’s lecturette is both brief and also my personal search for assistance with regard to the issue raised in the caption.

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.

We politicize everything in this society. Unless we see institutions as dynamic, organic bodies, each working to achieve unique goals unhinged of sinister political motives, we would not move forward.

By U.S. Ambassador D. Brent Hardt   GEORGETOWN – As my tenure in Guyana draws to an end, I was saddened to hear the recent outburst from a prominent religious leader suggesting that his fellow citizens with different sexual orientations should be sent to live on an island.

The demand by some PPP supporters for the PNC to apologise for its misdeeds, or to at least admit that it made mistakes, demonstrates more of a triumph for PPP propaganda than for reality.

In part 1 of the column, I argued that cultural practices have to be observed within the constraints of politics and economics of the Guyanese society.

Contributed by Dr Thomas Singh, Lecturer in Economics at the University of Guyana   Last week we discussed briefly the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry, the Anti-Money Laundering Legislation and Local Government Elections as issues of morality for us as a nation.

Editor’s Note: Last Friday, June 13th, was the 34th anniversary of the assassination of Walter Rodney.

Interviews and photos by Dacia Whaul This week the man and woman in the street shared their thoughts on the decision by the West Indies Cricket Board to pull the third Test of the New Zealand vs West Indies series from Guyana.

The Integrated Financial Management System (IFMAS), which the Guyana Government implemented in 2004, has been under the microscope in recent days in the Kaieteur News.

Story and photos by Mario Joseph   Whether it’s a hot sunny day or a cool afternoon, sweet ripe coconut water is always on sale at Priestman’s coconut stall on the edge of Friendship, on the East Bank of Demerara.

In honour of Father’s Day, Sunday Stabroek interviewed Wil Campbell, teacher and counsellor, on the challenges of being a father and what the role demands.