Stabroek Weekend

Coincidences can be an intriguing part of life. For the past two weeks, for example, I had been in a back-and-forth with a publisher, Desmond Roberts, of the Guyana Diaspora Times magazine, produced electronically in New York.

Introduction Last week I put forward the hypothesis that a paradigm shift is underway in international best practice in the area of financing for development.

The selection of Dr Bharrat Jagdeo by the Central Committee of the PPP as its nominee for Opposition Leader seals that party’s fate in opposition for decades to come, unless the APNU+AFC coalition underperforms or unravels.

What’s most worrisome about Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s xenophobic remarks about Mexicans is not that he actually made them, but the fact that they seem to have helped him among Repub-lican voters nationwide.

We are fortunate in Guyana that even in the worst times of party paramountcy the full ruthlessness of power was never exercised wholesale.

Cassia fistula, commonly called Golden Shower Tree or Indian Laburnum, as the name suggests, originated in the Indian sub-continent and South-East Asia.

Artists Stanley Greaves and Akima McPherson, in this their fourth Conversation, examine Gary Thomas’s sculpture, Retrogression.

A little over a week ago at least 38 holidaymakers died on a beach in Tunisia, and many more were injured in an appalling terrorist attack aimed at killing visitors and damaging terminally that country’s tourism industry.

Chops and steaks are quick-cooking cuts of meat, and they are ideal for the stovetop or a grill.

General considerations Quite unlike the eye, which we have already established is not the dog’s most important organ, the ear is of great value.

Garber to fellow policeman: “You won’t believe this.” Policeman: “You know me.

Last week we analysed the rise of two productions in the Guyanese popular theatre in the context of trends that have developed in the Caribbean region and in Guyana.

Sunday Cartoon

Hi Everyone, When you eat a fried pork chop, you can’t help feeling naughty.

Far too often in the fashion industry we override certain developments and movements because fashion has this crazy partisan attitude attached to it.

Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj This week, the World Beyond Georgetown visited a gem of a village tucked away between Sarah Johanna and Caledonia on the East Bank Demerara.

Introduction As promised, today I continue discussing the topic: financing for development and its linkage to efforts directed at recovering stolen public assets belonging to Guyana.

Most feared Every time one reads about the economic crisis in Greece, one cannot help thinking of how the world has changed.

I have come to the conclusion that it will never stop – persons telling you angrily that today’s music is “garbage”.

“The writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed – love and honour and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.”