Stabroek Weekend

The economy Guyana inherited at Independence in 1966 has remained largely unchanged.

Intermittently, and especially during memorable times up the immense and soul-redeeming Essequibo, I like to read Shelley – as we all should do from time to time since he is pre-eminently the poet of hope.

As a child, Sarju Persaud spent many of his days laid up in bed with various injuries which bled sometimes for weeks at a time.

“I just want to see my children. I miss them so much and it is almost two months since I have not seen them.

There are many misconceptions about vitamins and supplements and I would like to clear up some of them.

How might things have been different if Marvel had decided to produce a “Black Widow” film that opened in 2017 to explore the past of Natasha Romanoff?

It happen here a lil while back, in the middle of we MASH We ban some calypso outright friend, no more airplay, one lash But why they pick on kaiso man, I just don’t understand There are more important things now we should ban   The civil servant with a fancy house taking bribe left and right Ban that, immediately yes, ban that Some gutters up in Albouystown that block up day and night Ban that, oh yes, no argument, ban that And the ones that we have driving, drunk on vodka, rum or gin If you want to ban, right away, with that crowd, let’s begin Ban all the corruption, and the poor construction, look around and you’ll see Like pot holes in the road, ban that now.

Last Update: 808.97                                         Movement: 0.11% Current Update: 809.86                                   YTD Movement: 17.05%                                  LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index rose 1.558% during the fourth period of trading in July 2021.

Chess game White: Mark Taimanov Black: Bobby Fischer  Tournament: Candidates Quarterfinal.

Salt fish and rice is a combination that has been cooked in various iterations throughout the Caribbean for many, many years.

I have always found the word no, a hard one to roll off of my tongue.

As a young doctor in internal medicine Kamela Bemaul-Sukhu was troubled by the many patients with blood disorders who at times lay in hospital beds for long periods with no real help given to them; this drove her to become specialised and today she is the only hematologist in the country.

Twenty-one-year-old Keenan Prince had never heard the word hemophilia until her only child was diagnosed with the condition recently.

“If you think gold mining is hard, the mining industry is harder to regulate and harder to manage because there are so many people with so many agendas, it is difficult to keep yourself on the straight and narrow—but keep yourself you must, if you want change,” says Urica Primus, founder member and President of the NGO, Guyana Women’s Miners’ Organisation (GWMO).

Several observers have noted that the account in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York does not constitute the National Resource Fund (NRF).

Introduction Today’s column continues my rather extended interrogation cum discussion (over the  past several weeks) of the plethora of mis-representations, deceptions, and plain fake news put out ceaselessly in the social and print media by the local and external purveyors of noise and nonsense directed at Guyana’s emergent oil and gas sector.

In the previous installment, we noted that, as was the case with Josė Gomes d’Aguiar, Carl Wieting and Gustav Henri Richter, the founders of Wieting & Richter Ltd.,

Political leadership transitions can sometimes be full of drama. The transition to Desmond Hoyte after Burnham’s passing in 1985, was followed by the expulsion of its second most powerful leader, Hamilton Green, then a gradual but wholesale demolition the ‘left wing’ of the Peoples National Congress (PNC).

Towards the end of life – and when you are eighty-eighty and counting you are not very distant from the end – you become more reflective.

Going in, although this is the traditional Sunday space in Stabroek News for my SO IT GO column, I am operating merely as a conduit this week for my wife Annette and her very focused work as an environmentalist.as