Stabroek Weekend

Here is the penultimate instalment of the Anatoly Karpov interview discussing Fischer.

It is probably true to say that the average person has little idea what international financial institutions like the World Bank or International Monetary Fund (IMF) do, beyond knowing that they are in some way responsible for having governments impose tough austerity measures and conditions in return for their support.

Thinking about salads to serve with Sunday lunch can cause some head scratching.

PANAMA CITY — We’ve known for a while that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was planning to stage an anti-US show at this weekend’s Summit of the Americas in Panama, but a copy of the draft final declaration of the meeting that I obtained this week shows that he will seek much more: a formal, region-wide condemnation of the United States.

  Hi Everyone,   There is a new twist to my love-hate relationship with the nightshade species that is also known as eggplant, aubergine, baigan, bolanger, brinjal, garden egg, and more popularly as melongene, in Trinidad and Tobago.

Once a month on a Saturday, between the hours of 6 am and 10 am, Dennis Street experiences a severe traffic jam.

Introduction   Last week I introduced the first in the present series of lessons explaining Guyana’s public investment management regime.

I’m not big on “long time” – I remember it as a lot of hard time – but there are instances where I suddenly regret some aspect of life from that era that’s no longer around.

Public policy analysis   The analysis of the individual performance of the commercial banks that are part of the Lucas Stock Index (LSI) will conclude when the 2014 annual report of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) becomes available.

The announcement of general elections in Guyana is a signal for an immediate increase in tension across the land.

Since the restoration of free and fair elections in Guyana, the only election results that have been accepted were those of 1992, even though they, and most other elections since then, were accompanied by violence, particularly after the elections.

Story and photos by Joanna Khan   Vriesland is a tiny village on the West Bank Demerara, which has been in existence since the late 1800s.

(Continued)   Let’s face it, the eye is a very vulnerable organ.

Sandra Granger is still getting used to being a politician’s wife but she firmly believes that her husband is the man to take the country forward, as he cares for the ordinary; she points out that there is so much wrong with the country and that those bearing the brunt of it are the young and the elderly.

            Easter 1916   I I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses.

Locally known as the Powis, the Black Curassow spends most of its time on the forest floor in search of fruit and insects. 

While US and Latin American officials say that Venezuela’s political crisis should be solved through upcoming legislative elections, recent testimony before the US Senate raised many questions: It said Venezuela’s voting registry includes the names of so many dead, many states have more registered voters than people.

The maritime security of the Caribbean is an issue not often written about.

Beautiful flowers are popping up everywhere in a rainbow of colours and you can tell it is that time of the year – Easter or Spring as they say in northern climates.

It is commonly felt that in chess as in life, when people cannot figure out what you are doing, they are kept in a state of confusion, uncertain and waiting.