Stabroek Weekend

Few would any longer argue against the centrality of tourism to the Caribbean economy.

Principal Owner Property Holdings Inc is a company that was incorporated on October 5, 1999 for the specific purpose of managing or disposing of property owned by Guyana Stores Limited (GSL).

The column presents the final part of Kasparov’s announcement of his candidacy for President of the World Chess Federation, FIDE.

Continued from last week Today we continue where we left off last week when we discussed the provision of a suitable hygienic environment and nutrition for the newborn puppies.

Mark this for a mercy; that here birds, even here,   sustain the wide and impossible highways of warm current, divide the sky; mark this- they all day have amazed the air, that it falls apart from  their heavy wings in thin wedges of sound; though the dull black earth is very still, sweating a special sourness they make high over the  hard thorn-trees their own magnificent turning, they chain all together with very slow journeys to and fro the limits of the dead place; smelling anything old and no longer quick.

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Platycerium bifurcatum commonly called Staghorn fern originates in the tropical areas of Australia, Asia and Africa, but has adapted well to Guyana.

Bananas are the world’s most popular and best-selling fruit, outranking the apple and orange.

By Marcelle Thomas with photos by Arian Browne  Maybe it’s because every time it rains the village is flooded, that it got its name.

Last week’s column carried a brief description of the current situation of Guyana in regard to the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF).

Self reliance On Monday last, the administration launched the Micro and Small Enterprise Development (MSED) Project. 

Continued from last week Hand-rearing of newborn puppies The advice given below is to pet owners who are faced with the challenge of hand-rearing part or all of a litter of newborn puppies. 

The US government’s recent signing of a first-of-its-kind bilateral deal with the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo makes me wonder whether Washington will start a new strategy in Latin America — by-passing not-so-friendly national governments, and signing agreements with more amicable local authorities.

Most people are cowards.  Most people don’t want to trouble trouble lest trouble troubles them. 

Garry Kasparov has long been accustomed to hovering easily above his human opponents at a board game that he felt perhaps, was designed for him.

By Ralph Ramkarran Unlike any other profession, law is practised in the glare of publicity and this is the season of admission of lawyers to practise their profession in open court.

Semipalmated Plovers are migratory and winter in the coastal areas of the southern United States, the Caribbean and much of South America. 

I have no idea how many read it, but following the recent Guyana Prize awards, a lady from the University of Leeds in the UK, Lori Shelbourn, herself part of the jury deciding on the awards, wrote a review of the collection of poems by Cassia Alphonso that won the Guyana Prize for Poetry 2012. 

When it comes to breakfast, hold the muffins, cakes, sweet breads and jams, bring on the potatoes, sausages, eggs, salt fish, bakes and whatever savoury offerings you have.

Adiantum commonly called the Maidenhair fern originates from tropical Brazil. There are approxi-mately 200 species.