Stabroek Weekend

Story and photos by Keneisha Fraser “I came to live here in 1975 when I married.

Fifty years after the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) came into existence it is a far cry from the vibrant force that once represented workers and played a pivotal role in decision-making in the country.

A police officer stationed at Mahdia and accused of harassing sex workers in the Region Eight area has been reportedly captured on video assaulting one of them and the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) plans to take up the issue with the senior officers of the police force.

Georgetown is already a disaster. An explosion of disease is all that remains to condemn the city as unsafe for human habitation.

I find it hard to accept that old age has come upon me.

The Red-shouldered macaw, at 30 cm (12 in) long and 165 gm (5.8 oz) in weight, is the smallest of all the macaws.

One of the edification spinoffs from being in the entertainment business is the number of lessons one learns that prove very useful in other businesses or circumstances.

Introduction As indicated last week that column was prompted by the seemingly orchestrated public statements by private organizations, steps being taken by the US Treasury against tax evasion in the region as well as diplomatic and other pressures brought to bear on the parliamentary “opposition.”

Impasse The impasse over the amendments to the 2009 Anti-money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism Act is a perplexing one. 

On November 13 the Xinhua News Agency, the official press agency of China, carried a report that indicated an important and seemingly strategic change in US policy towards the Caribbean and Latin America.

Alas, it was over for Viswanathan  Anand and one billion and more chess fans from India.

Continued from last week   Puppy septicaemia (blood poisoning) Last week, I mentioned that as a sequel to a navel infection, a septicaemia could develop. 

To end this series of comments on Guyana’s Third National Drama Festival held in November, 2013, we consider the way the festival closed with four new plays produced by students of the National School of Theatre Arts and Drama. 

Many of  us know this rice dish as Spanish rice but the Mexicans and Mexican food enthusiasts would probably shrug and wonder if it is called Spanish rice because Mexicans speak Spanish.

Zingiber officinale commonly called Culinary ginger comes from the Zingiberaceae family and originates from South-east Asia. 

I have never thought of Shakira, Juanes and lesser-known artists as potential engines of Latin America’s economy, but newly released studies conclude that the region could grow more rapidly if it developed its so-called “creative industries.”

Hi Everyone, Could it really be? In my research into our foods – where they came from, how we prepare and consume them – I came across some information that gave me an “ah ha” moment.

Intermittently through the year, and especially during memorable times up the immense and soul-redeeming Essequibo, I like to read Shelley – as we all should do from time to time since he is pre-eminently the poet of hope.

Most people pass the scattered, thatched-roofed, mud-brick huts of Kumu without stopping and head directly to the white spray of the Kumu Falls to splash about in the cold waters roaring off the mountain.