Stabroek Weekend

This weekend Guyana celebrates the 51st Independence Anniversary, offers national awards to worthy citizens on their contributions to Guyana and welcomes the uplifting message of Ramadan.

Usually I come to this space with a column percolating in my mind; occasionally something crops up that catches me. 

Mark McWatt’s multiple prize-winning work of fiction Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement  provides an extremely unique way of handling the issue of Guyanese Independence, which is perhaps the most remarkable direct treatment of such a theme in Guyanese literature since Independence. 

Blue-and-yellow Macaws usually mate for life.  They prefer to nest in dead palm trees as is the case here in the Botanical Gardens and they feed on a wide range of fruits, particularly palm nuts and leaf buds.

Melons of all sorts are in season and coming in to season.

Perhaps the most accurate player who ever lived, Paul Morphy would beat anybody today in a set match.

Last week I rescued approximately a dozen or more new plants that people received for Mother’s Day and did not know what to do to save them after they started to turn yellow. 

Hi Everyone, It was a holiday and we were invited to lunch at the home of friends.

Earlier on in April, ACED Design –a Chicago based company introduced the ‘RompHim’ to the market.

With underwhelming new releases on offer this week, I opted to veto a review in favour of examining something more intriguing–the cinema experience itself.

“I can’t sit down. I just have to get up, I have to get up and get.

Central Amelia’s Ward is a quiet village in Linden. It is well laid out because it was built as a housing community and was never subject to squatting.

The collapse of the Palmyra foundation structure intended to support an Indian Arrival Monument which was unveiled on Arrival Day was reported by the Stabroek News on April 27.

My son Tony, who writes for an ad agency in Ottawa, Ontario, is working on a book about Tradewinds, and I have had some interesting exchanges with him on a range of topics that fall under that remit. 

‘There is a local feeling connected with this occasion, too strong to be resisted… ‘ – Daniel Webster (1782-1852), American lawyer and orator during an address commemorating the 200th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims.

Ode To Autumn Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

On Mother’s Day many of you would have received potted plants and flowers. 

Today’s column starts with an offering of a few concluding comments on the topic considered over recent weeks: local content requirements/policies (LCRs) in the petroleum industry, as Guyana prepares for its own industry, scheduled to come on-stream post-2020.

Intangible Intellectual property (IP) is one of those intangible things that is important to the production structure of any country.

Last Easter I tweaked my Cross Buns recipe that originally had its flour to yeast ratio from my Butterflap recipe.