Stabroek Weekend

A White-throated Toucan (Ramphastos tucanus) perched along a back road in Linden. (Photo by Kester Clarke / www.kesterclarke.net)
A White-throated Toucan (Ramphastos tucanus) perched along a back road in Linden. (Photo by Kester Clarke / www.kesterclarke.net)

White-throated Toucan

The loud, dog like yelping calls of the White-throated Toucan can carry for a long distance. 

Tradewinds arriving at Guyana National Service base in Kimbia, Berbice River, 1976
(L-R) Freddy Abdool, Terry Dyal, Clive Rosteing, Dave Martins, Maurice Pierre, Vibert Cambridge  (Officer presenting garlands, unidentified)

Forty-one years ago

On Tuesday this week I’m walking up Carmichael Street about to turn into Lamaha, and a man comes running out of the business on the corner and hails me: “Boy, I’m glad I ran into you. 

‘A local oil refinery would make a marginal (less than 0.1 %) addition to global oil refining capacity’

Introduction If one began with the standard industry description of an oil refinery that was earlier introduced, which is: “an industrial plant or complex that manages hydrocarbon molecules extracted from crude oil, natural gas liquids and national gas” (in the case of Guyana, at the Stabroek bloc Liza wells), that complex could produce an assemblage of different petroleum based products that can potentially reach several thousand.

Poetry and the real world

Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, whose marvellous collection of essays The Redress of Poetry I like to re-read, writes that W H Auden’s elegy for Yeats was “a rallying cry that celebrates poetry for being on the side of life, and continuity of effort, and enlargement of the spirit.”

Is it an illusion?

(Conclusion) Rule out Perhaps among the main reasons for agriculture remaining a priority is the contribution that it makes to the economy beyond making food available for consumption. 

China and the Americas

A few days ago, China struck a remarkable deal:  it agreed with the state of California to work on projects that will help lower US greenhouse gas emissions. 

Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco) in the Botanical Gardens, Georgetown. (Photograph by Kester Clarke / www.kesterclarke.net)

Toco Toucan

The Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco), also known as the Toucan or Common Toucan, is the largest and probably the best known species in the toucan family.

The ready body

The apparent natural path to follow that guarantees a fulfilled life for any woman, according to society’s standards, entails becoming a mother.

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