Stabroek Weekend

Southern House Wren (Troglodytes musculus) singing in the Botanical Gardens, Georgetown. (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)
Southern House Wren (Troglodytes musculus) singing in the Botanical Gardens, Georgetown. (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Southern House Wren

  The Southern House Wren (Troglodytes musculus) is a common backyard bird, found over nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. This

Hurricane horrors

Before I went to live in Grand Cayman in 1980, I felt that I had some idea of what a hurricane would be like – high winds, plenty rain, houses boarded up, stores closed, and, in the case of low-lying islands such as Grand Cayman, a few feet of sea-water coming ashore. 

A bleak prognosis?

The government is silently leaning the economy towards Burnham’s socialist control system, to cooperativism and poverty, where the sugar workers suffer and the private sector has no influence.

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