Stabroek Weekend

It has been approximately one month since I have been in Belgium and exactly one week since I tied the knot with my partner of four years.

When a government deliberately refuses to listen to the voice of its people it had better be on solid ground, e.g.

Story and photos by Roger Wong Hidden behind thick forest, about eleven miles off the Soesdyke-Linden Highway St Cuthbert’s Mission sits amid a vast display of flora and fauna and is home to more than 1,200 Indigenous Guyanese.

During last week Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams, reminded us that the current Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang is due to retire shortly.

Guyanese under 30 years of age will likely have no knowledge of it, but there was a time in our country when there was a ritual, common in many of the middle class homes, that involved the process of bringing wood floors to a shine by buffing them by hand using wax.

I have been thinking of my father. Since he died in 1995 at the age of 89 I have not written very much about him.

Is it helpful to describe Latin America and the Caribbean as if it were a single entity?

Fully supportive This column is the last in a series of nine successive columns devoted to addressing the United Nations (UN) Post-2015 Development Agenda and its related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Wide-ranging powers The National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) was formed in July 1990.

There are various cuts of lamb from which we get chops – shoulder, leg, loin and rib.

Allamanda commonly called Buttercup or Golden Trumpet originated in Brazil and comes from the Apocynaceae family.

Allergies associated with Rhinitis and Sinusitis Last week we dealt with Sinusitis and Rhinitis (in Greek, Rhis means nose) as being the result of nose infections, or as an accompaniment to special viral diseases of Canine Distemper, Parainfluenza, etc.

We have already commented that the ‘summer’ of 2015 was like a field lying fallow in the production of theatre in Guyana.

When the chess history of the year 2015 is written, the FIDE World Cup must be mentioned.

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Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj   In 1954, two-year-old Nebert Perch left her home in Buxton and travelled with her mother Una Bobb Samuels and four-year-old brother Rudolph to a tiny village called Supply, today known as Support.

In today’s column I shall start addressing the very last topic left in this extended series of discussions on the United Nations (UN) Post-2015 Development Agenda Summit and its related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Decree On May 26, 2015, the Government of Venezuela issued Decree 1787 which purported to annexe the territorial waters of Guyana off of Guyana’s Essequibo coast.

It was talked about frequently during the years I lived in the Cayman Islands, but it hasn’t happened yet.