Stabroek Weekend

The pantomime is an important and popular tradition in the Caribbean theatre. 

Hi Everyone, There is very little if anything that needs to be done to fried sweet ripe plantains.

Sandwiched between Annandale and Good Hope on the East Coast of Demerara, Lusignan, is a predomi-nantly Indian Guyanese community where most residents earn their livelihood in the farming and fishing industries, and some are employed by the public and private sectors.

Scope This week I shall conclude the discussion on the selection of public projects in Guyana and their sequencing.

There is a Guyanese organisation in Toronto called the St. Stanislaus College Alumni Association which has done stellar work over the years raising funds to help maintain the school.

“Records are there to be broken,” Sobers observed when asked how he felt when Lara eclipsed his world record Test score of 365.

While on May 5th the 175th Anniversary of Indian Arrival was commemorated, there was another anniversary two days earlier that slipped by unnoticed.

Perhaps Secretary of State John Kerry’s lack of attention to Latin America might not be so bad after all — it is moving Vice President Joe Biden to get more involved with the region, and may help turn US-Latin American relations into a White House foreign policy priority.

Introduction Describing its 2012 performance as riding on the back of a growing economy, the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Limited (GBTI) will be holding its Annual General Meeting for 2012 at its Kingston Office on Monday June 10 at 6 pm.

Students of English at the University of Guyana over the past two years have been going out into the field to collect samples of Guyanese oral literature. 

The Constitution of the PPP was adopted in 1977. It was designed to entrench the ideology of Marxism-Leninism and assist in the transformation of the party to a Leninist party of the new type.

The eyes of the chess world are planted on Thessaloniki, Greece, where twelve of the planet’s finest chess players are competing in the fourth stage of the FIDE Grand Prix round robin tournament.

This article was published in Stabroek News ‘Arts on Sunday’ on May 9, 1999 having been reprinted from The Portuguese of Guyana:  A Study in Culture and Conflict by Prof Menezes.

(Continued) Prolonged labour (Dystocia, difficult labour) The prolongation of any phase of labour is called dystocia. 

Crisp on the outside, fluffy on the inside that’s some good roast potatoes.

Gladiolus (plural Gladioli) commonly called Sword Lily comes from the Latin word gladius which means sword, referring to the shape of the leaves. 

Hi Everyone, Have you ever seen what that golden powder, also known as turmeric and dye looks like in its fresh form?

The small, normally quiet village of Yeovil, West Coast Berbice, was recently alive with activity when two groups of 40 high school students came from Connecticut, USA to help build a multi-purpose centre.

I get a modest monthly American Federation of Musicians Union pension cheque which I deposit in the bank here, but it takes 30 working days, yes 30, for foreign cheques to clear (money laundering; fraud, etc, is the reason you’re given) which means, taking in weekends, foreign holidays and ours, that it’s actually closer to 45 days.

This week I continue my discussion of Phase 2 (project selection and sequencing) in managing Guyana’s public investment programme.