Stabroek Weekend

Public exchanges The story of the Amaila Falls hydropower project dates back many years and much has already been said and written about it. 

While the much-needed US immigration reform bill remains stuck in Congress, Canada is not waiting — it has launched a pilot programme to attract global entrepreneurs by offering them permanent visas and a path to citizenship.

Something interesting is happening in the US Senate’s Com-merce, Science and Transportation committee.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) made its position on Amaila known from the outset.

In the intense, ongoing debate about the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project I confess to finding myself mystified.

Carifesta XI, 2013, closes its curtains today in Paramaribo, Suriname.  At its closing this evening it is expected that Haiti will be declared the host and the venue for Carifesta XII in 2015. 

Over the previous months we have discussed problems associated with pregnancy and whelping. 

I honestly don’t like him playing chess. I mean I see him sitting there for ten minutes thinking four moves ahead before he makes one.

Spathoglottis are terrestrial orchids commonly referred to as Ground orchids because they grow in soil.

Sunday Cartoons

Hi Everyone, I have an obsession with bakes. Not exclusively with the eating of bakes but with the cultural and historical significance of this food of fried dough found across the length and breath of Guyana, and indeed, up and down the entire Caribbean.

Story and photos by Shabna Ullah No 3 Village or Mon Choisi, West Coast Berbice is quite small with a population of just over 200, but it is buzzing with economic activity and is quite popular for its large-scale honey production.

In a column in this space in mid-January 2012, in the aftermath of the general election, I wrote the following: “The playing out of this scenario, in very public view, of a President sitting in a Parliament, where his party is outnumbered by the coalesced opposition, is going to mean that the normal ruling party dictates will not be operating in Guyana, and  this manoeuvering for consensus, by its very nature, is going to require exemplary people, people of character, for the governing apparatus to work.

Last week the question was tackled: what is money laundering? This week we look at the techniques and circumstances, which give it traction in Guyana and the wider Caricom region.

Famous poems have been written on the deaths of those who have meant more than life itself to the poet.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power deserves credit for asking Cuba’s foreign minister to launch a credible investigation into the suspicious death of leading Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá, but she should have gone a step further.

The Amaila Falls Hydro Project became a victim of Guyana’s political culture.

Anniversary On June 30, 2013, with all attention on concerns about the expansion of the airport, the future of sugar, legislation about anti-money laundering and financing of terrorism, the price of gold and critical deadlines about the Amaila Falls hydropower project looming, no one noticed that the Guyana Stock Exchange (GSE) had reached an important milestone in its existence. 

Two weeks ago, after a fierce debate, the lower house of the Uruguay Parliament took the first step towards legalising the production and possession of ganja/marijuana for domestic personal use.

Renanthera orchids are native to eastern Asia, south China and the Pacific Islands.