Stabroek Weekend

Hi Everyone,  When one goes home to visit, the list of needs is small but important.

My six-week love affair with Russia has come to an end.

Hosororo, a small community within the Mabaruma sub-district of Region One (Barima/Waini), exudes serenity.

Today’s column continues consideration of the likely cost-price relation that might be anticipated during Guyana’s coming time of oil and gas production and export.

This past weekend I was in Orlando hosting the Caribbean American Passport Connection event (I had the name wrong in my previous column) where they honoured outstanding Guyanese contributors to America as part of our Jubilee Year celebrations. 

]Stiff penalties A few months ago, a few persons, expressed an interest in cultivating industrial hemp as part of the economic production of Guyana. 

Against all expectations, Donald Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States of America.

Gym bag? Check. Water bottle? Check. Gloves? Check. Hair Tie? Check Snack?

The National Drama Festival (NDF) 2016 is now in progress. Among its key objectives are the grand exhibition of the best of Guyanese theatre; the advancement of the dramatic arts and the improvement of theatrical skills; the promotion of new theatre both in terms of written plays to enlarge the corpus of Guyanese drama and extending the frontiers of theatrical form, dramatic styles in both writing and directing techniques; providing instruction through drama; and addressing national and social issues through the use of the stage.

I am sometimes accused by bloggers, and often gently told by friends, that I am inclined to view life, and particularly life in Guyana, through a glass not darkly, but one beautifully rose-coloured.

Three weeks ago in my Tastes Like Home column, Nuttier for Coconuts, in celebration of all this coconut, I mentioned making potato pie and using fresh homemade coconut cream instead of dairy cream to make the pie.

Silver-beaked Tanager   Adult male Silver-beaked Tanagers are velvety crimson black with a deep crimson throat and breast.

During the 1960s into the 70s, even today when someone says you are playing chess like Tal, that person is paying you an enormous compliment.

Pruning can improve the look of all plants that are leggy, lopsided or too large.

Dispossessed by economic globalisation, faced with growing economic inequality, and wanting change, the people of the United States have elected Donald Trump to be their President.

Hi Everyone, What’s Cooking is a series in which I answer questions you may have about food or cooking but are too shy to ask.

The news that Donald Trump was triumphant at the recently held elections in the USA found me whilst I was having lunch with a group of friends who were in support of him.

I  was a country boy of almost 21 when I migrated to Toronto, but almost immediately after my arrival there I began to notice the disposition in Guyanese to improvise, to fix things, to repair and recondition, which was not nearly so widespread in the Canadian community where there was a tendency to discard and buy new, instead of restoring or repainting or patching up. 

The government has expressed concern about the level of gun ownership and has linked private gun ownership to the high crime rate involving the use of guns.

Nothing worthwhile can be achieved without the right people in place to convert words into action.