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A  Festive Amazon (Amazona festiva) in the Botanical Gardens, Georgetown (Photo by Kester Clarke)
A Festive Amazon (Amazona festiva) in the Botanical Gardens, Georgetown (Photo by Kester Clarke)

Bird Watchers Corner

The Festive Amazon (Amazona festiva), also known as the Festive Parrot, is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family.

Ruimzigt

Story and photos by Dacia Whaul Ruimzigt is a small village located a few miles from Vreed-en-Hoop on the West Coast of Demerara between Windsor Forest and Wallers Delight.

Swordtail Bromeliad

Vriesa splendens commonly called Swordtail or Flaming Sword comes from the bromeliad family and originated from Venezuela and the Guianas where it grows in trees in the rainforest. 

Venezuela’s Maduro faces hard choices

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s disastrous government is in much bigger trouble than most people think, not because of the student protests that have already resulted in at least 19 deaths, but by a 56 per cent annual inflation rate — the world’s highest — that may soon turn his country ungovernable.

A woman’s reflection on a society

 Birdshooting Season   Birdshooting season the men make marriages with their guns My father’s house turns macho as from far the hunters gather   All night long contentless women stir their brews: hot coffee chocolata, cerassie wrap pone and tie-leaf for tomorrow’s sport.

Chess blunders

A blunder in chess is a disastrous move, a move which confers misery on its perpetrator, and which causes in most instances the immediate termination of a game.

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