What’s most shameful about Latin Ameri-can presidents’ sche-duled visit to Cuba for a regional summit on Tuesday is not that they will visit one of the world’s last family dictatorships, but that they most likely won’t even set foot at a parallel summit that the island’s peaceful opposition plans to hold at the same time.
Change in structure A particularly interesting feature of the Guyana economy is the growth that it has exhibited over the last several years.
(Continued from last week) Mealy bugs can be devastating There are two types of nealy bugs: they are either white or pink.
Last year the world lost one of its great poets. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) of Ireland rather quietly commanded a place at the helm of contemporary poetry, although he received overwhelming acclaim and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1995.
Hi Everyone, There is way too much misinformation about food out there.
By Dacia Whaul with photos by Arian Browne There was no one out in the streets when Sunday Stabroek visited Anna Catherina recently.
Professional musicians can operate in the large developed cities of the world without ever leaving the familiar comforts of their home town, but when, through recordings, they become known internationally, being “on the road,” as musicians term it, becomes a significant part of the way they live.
Some of the best-known international institutions have just released their economic forecasts for Latin America in 2014, and most of them agree that this will be a better year than 2013 in the region.
In little over a week’s time the second summit of CELAC, The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños) will take place in Havana.
Recently I paid a visit to Trinidad and while there made a remarkable discovery.
The modest participation by Guyana at the chess Olympiads in 1978 and 1980 reverberated well among other Caribbean nations owing to its stellar performances.
Business focus A new year has begun and many businesses are getting in stride with implementation of the plans that they would have developed for execution in the unfolding operating period.
Comedy is hard work. It is also very deceptive. The current success that it enjoys on the Guyanese stage, and the apparent lightheartedness of it all, the fun, the hilarity, the shooting nonsense to make people laugh, deceives everyone into believing that it is easy.
Pest attacks are common in both indoor and outdoor plants. If you allow them to get out of hand, serious damage can result.
Continued from last week Hernias Colloquially, all over the English speaking world, people describe hernias as ‘ruptures’.
Examining the last century or so of the industrial life cycle of Guyana’s sugar industry, it is observed that the period up to the late 1960s and early 1970s marked the phase of its maturity.
Sunday Cartoons
Hi Everyone, with the end of the Sorrel season quickly closing in, I wanted to share with you a way in which you can still enjoy the flavour of sorrel beyond the season.
Story and photos by Gaulbert Sutherland If you’re scared of leaping cows, don’t go into the corral.
Introduction As testimony to the present dire state of Guyana’s sugar industry and its continued importance to the socioeconomic, political, and cultural life of the country, last week I began a third series of columns on this topic in the space of only three years.
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