Stabroek Weekend

Thandi Bryan of SOL (left), smiles broadly as she receives a plaque of recognition from the GCF’s Yolander Persaud. President of the GCF James Bond looks on.
Thandi Bryan of SOL (left), smiles broadly as she receives a plaque of recognition from the GCF’s Yolander Persaud. President of the GCF James Bond looks on.

The Guyana Chess Federation’s dinner

The executive committee of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF), led by its President James Bond, created an exquisite show for its fundraising dinner three Saturday evenings ago at the Promenade Gardens.

Plain-crowned Spinetail (Synallaxis gujanensis) along the road in Rockstone Village, Guyana
(Photo by Kester Clarke/www. kesterclarke.net)
Plain-crowned Spinetail (Synallaxis gujanensis) along the road in Rockstone Village, Guyana (Photo by Kester Clarke/www. kesterclarke.net)

Plain-crowned Spinetail

The Plain-crowned Spinetail (Synallaxis gujanensis)is found in the Guianas and much of Amazonia.

Guidelines

At the ripe old age of eighty-five, when one is very aware that it is time to make sense of what has happened in one’s life, I have become convinced about two major things.

Right under our noses

Living in Guyana again and becoming caught up in grumbling about this or that like most folks, it has begun to occur to me of late (partly from seeing a variety of video footage and still photographs) that we don’t seem to take the same note of the positives that exist here, right under our noses, along with the other stuff that rightfully draws our indignation. 

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