Stabroek Weekend

Think about our own dilemma

It is sometimes the case, in this age of the extensive flooding of information on subjects of the day, that a particular item can be of such long standing and of frequent and vigorous treatment, that we lose sight of the original propulsion in the matter.

 Roderick Walcott
Roderick Walcott

The forgotten Walcott

There is a substantial body of work by a writer who was one of St Lucia’s most outstanding dramatists and who was quite dominant among West Indian playwrights throughout the 1960s into the 1970s. 

Roses

(Continued from last week) There are five classes of roses: Hybrid Tea, Floribunda, Miniature, Climbers or Ramblers and Shrub roses.

White-chinned Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla merula) under the Iwokrama Canopy Walkway. (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

White-chinned Woodcreeper

The white-chinned woodcreeper  (Dendrocincla merula) is a species of bird in the Dendrocolaptinae subfamily. It is found in  Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana,  Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and  Venezuela.

Our sports ambassadors

I have made passing reference to it previously in references to migration, but in the midst of learning new things about the country we’ve moved to, we are also often coming to realize, outside, something about the homeland, and one of the latter for me, during my years in Grand Cayman, was the powerful impression visiting Guyanese sports teams left on that country, year after year.

Travelling by the book

My tutor at Cambridge, Professor Nick Hammond, authority on the history of ancient Macedonia and on the life of Alexander the Great, used to coach me on what he called “exercises of the mind.”

 Sautéed Prawns (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

Sautéed Prawns

Fast food for me falls into two categories – traditional, as in foods that you buy from large chains that include things like, chicken and chips, burgers, pizzas and sandwiches.

A perspective on local content

Noise around local content Guyanese have been clamouring for local content provisions in their relationship with ExxonMobil since it became obvious that oil production will be undertaken by the multinational oil giant. 

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