Stabroek Weekend

While there has been a kind of cooling off in the offer of plays on the popular commercial market, there has been a stepping up of activity on the Guyanese stage.

In this week’s edition of In Search Of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at the forgotten scoreboard of the 1975 Shell Shield Match between Trinidad & Tobago and the Combined Islands.

The headline above is not really the name of this dish; it is more representative of the number of steps involved in preparing the dish.

Minister within the Ministry of Education Nicolette Henry (left) receiving a contribution of souvenirs and memorabilia from Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry’s (GBTI) Public Relations and Marketing Manager Pamela Binda.

Passengers disembarking the ferry from Essequibo at the Parika Stelling on Sunday.

 Sunday Cartoons

By Satyendra Persaud MBBS DM (Urol) FCCS Registrar, Department of Urology San Fernando General Hospital, Trinidad and Tobago We have already noted that there are several ways in which we can treat prostate cancer confined to the prostate.

Hi Everyone,   It didn’t just happen but it is only now that I have come to fully understand how much arthritis has affected and changed the use of my mother’s hands in the kitchen.

I almost choked on my tea when I came across Shabeau’s Spring 2016 cover as I was scrolling through my Facebook timeline.

As the acting principal of the Government Technical Institute (GTI) Renita Crandon-Duncan faces two major challenges: she is young and she is a woman.

Global demand The world is bombarded with claims of free trade and its virtues. 

I do not get the impression that the governance of the world is good or that it is getting better.

John Gladstone, the owner of Plantation Vreed-en-Hoop, was regarded as a prime mover for indentureship.

Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj   Success, East Coast Demerara, has a population of just about 2,000 people, many of whom work at the La Bonne Intention Estate will soon be shifted to the Enmore Estate.

It’s the middle of the day on Alexander Street in Kitty; as I’m walking across the road a voice calls out from one of the parked cards I’ve just passed; “Dave.” 

Resolute action Between Earth Day 2016 and Earth Day 2017, 55 national instruments of ratification will have to be submitted to the Paris Agreement before it comes into operation.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour fuses fact with fiction to compose a diary of wicketkeeper Cyril Christiani’s participation in the 1935 Series against England.

By Nigel Westmaas   How the Poor Live “…There has been a good deal said on all sides, but personally I sympathise with all the laboring sections in the colony and my organisation as well as myself feel not alone for the sections we approached the Chamber of Commerce on behalf but also for the much underpaid clerks, who as well toil faithfully and hard for their meagre stipends, and are exposed to the same cruel, vicious nefarious and highly immoral profiteering system existing.

Volume 1: The Foundation (Hansib Publications Limited, 2015) by Clem Seecharran A review by Winston Mc Gowan   This book is the first of a three-volume history of cricket in Guyana from 1865 to 1966.

If you are looking for something special to make for breakfast on this Mother’s Day morning or for afternoon tea, these cheddar-scallion biscuits would be ideal.