Stabroek Weekend

The Bicoloured Wren (Campylorhynchus griseus) is found from northern Colombia through Venezuela, interior Guyana and the extreme north of Brazil in Roraima.

In mid-July, HBO released a brief press release about “Confederate,” an upcoming show from David Benioff and D.B.

Introduction As indicated last week, today’s column aims to update my earlier (October 2016) assessment of Guyana’s petroleum discovery.

Pakistan sits snugly between Windsor Forest and La Jalousie on the West Coast Demerara approximately nine kilometres from the Vreed-en-Hoop Police Station.

There was a time when air travel for Guyanese didn’t offer many choices, and even jetways were scarce ‒ on my first trip outside, Toronto didn’t have them; it was come off the plane in sub-zero weather and walk to the terminal ‒ in my case, run.

Introduction   Today’s column revisits my previous estimate of the likely crude oil price at the time Guyana’s first oil is anticipated to be fully on-stream (2025).

There are approximately 2,000 prisoners in the five facilities in Georgetown, New Amsterdam, Mazaruni, Lusignan and Timehri.

There are few problems in Guyana which are more intractable than the problem of bureaucracy in all its deadly guises.

Any and everything Almost every conversation about sustainable development or climate change gravitates towards energy. 

There are several ways in which to put eggs and cheese together to make a sandwich but my favourite way is old fashioned by today’s standards, and harkens back to my childhood.

This week we will continue to look at nutrition, exploring some foods which will fuel your workouts and along with the exercises, aid in your fitness efforts.

Theatre has been a staple product in Carifesta throughout its history.

Roses, botanic name Rosa were said to have originated mainly in Asia, China to be precise, though the Egyptians were also thought to have been among the first to cultivate them.

Chinese woman chess grandmaster Hou Yifan, 23, a former chess prodigy and three-time Women’s World Champion, emerged victorious in the 50th Biel Chess Festival in Switzerland last week.

The White-fringed Antwren lives mainly in wooded areas and edges. The adult male has dark grey-brown upperparts.

I left “Dunkirk” with the word “liminality” on the tip of my tongue.

New Forest is one of the last villages you get to when heading into East Canje, Berbice. While many claim that New Forest is located directly after Gangaram Village, residents of the area told the World Beyond Georgetown that New Forest is actually located further down; after Gangaram there are several other villages with just a few houses before New Forest.

In a recent column I mentioned Nick Hammond who was my tutor at Cambridge.

Being away for the past six weeks allowed me the luxury of leisurely contemplating Guyana from afar.

Several years ago, at a Tradewinds night in Orlando for the Guyanese American Cultural Association of Central Florida, I gave a speech on ‘Being Guyanese’ that went around the world online and appeared in the Chronicle here.