Stabroek Weekend

During the Trophy Stall chess tournament, the youths demonstrated an appreciation for each other’s games by sometimes physically supporting their colleagues. In this photograph, University of Guyana geological engineering second year student Owen Mickle (right) playing the white chess pieces, takes on Ghansham Allijohn of St Stanislaus College. The two onlookers are Kristoff Prashad with glasses and John Wong. The entire entourage has its roots in the robust St. Stanislaus College’s Chess Club.
During the Trophy Stall chess tournament, the youths demonstrated an appreciation for each other’s games by sometimes physically supporting their colleagues. In this photograph, University of Guyana geological engineering second year student Owen Mickle (right) playing the white chess pieces, takes on Ghansham Allijohn of St Stanislaus College. The two onlookers are Kristoff Prashad with glasses and John Wong. The entire entourage has its roots in the robust St. Stanislaus College’s Chess Club.

Professional chess players use time to their advantage

Playing chess is like having psychic powers. We look deep into the game and figure out what our opponents are going to do, before they actually do it.

Grafting and budding

(Continued) If you would like to try grafting and budding, you would need the following:Sterilized budding knife One healthy rootstock plant – disease free (approximately 18 – 24 months old) One healthy shoot (scion approximately 6 – 10 inches long) Budding tapeIn the case of citrus, a lemon rootstock can be used with a shoot (scion) from a lime tree.

A Spix’s Guan (Penelope jacquacu) perched on a branch near the Iwokrama Canopy Walkway.
(Photo by Kester Clarke / www.kesterclarke.net)

Spix’s Guan

Spix’s Guan resemble turkeys in their size and shape and are named after a 19th century bird scientist who collected the first specimen in neighbouring Brazil.

One of the badly deteriorated roads

Prospect

Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj Prospect means outlook, scene, or vision but our first view of the East Bank Demerara village was not a clear one.

Where the Valentines differ

With Valentine’s Day in the air and personal relationships under the microscope, it’s appropriate to note (as my Bajan columnist friend Vic Fernandes did recently) that if you see no difference between the male and the female brain, either you haven’t spent much time around women or you haven’t been paying attention.

The very best are never satisfied

I wish I could convey in particular to young people, whose mental appetites seem whetted so easily these days by the transitory and the trashy, the quiet depths, the delights, the leaping excitements of great poetry.

Green and yellow

In the National Assembly last week, an opposition PPP MP, Alister Charlie, criticized the use by the government of green and yellow as the colours to paint various public objects, such as car tyres around plants and trees.

Grafting and budding

(continued) The choice of the rootstock depends largely upon being resistant to nematodes and gummosis disease, which is a serious problem in the Caribbean.

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