Stabroek Weekend

Much of the talk at the Caribbean Tourism Summit that has just ended in Montego Bay in Jamaica was about tax and tourism.

Most things happen in isolation; some things appear as part of a wider condition. 

In another ten days, on June 27, 2012, one of Guyana’s celebrated writers will be 100 years old.

When I interviewed Chilean President Sebastian Piñera last week after the signing of an agreement to create the four-country ‘Pacific Alliance‘ trade bloc and he said it’s Latin America’s most ambitious economic integration project, my first reaction was of respectful scepticism.

Continued Last week, it was mentioned that there are four basic problems which could affect the lower urinary tract. 

The Tiger-striped leaf frog (Phyllomedusa tomopterna), found in the Iwokrama Forest, Guyana,

Hi Everyone, Have you ever found yourself sitting down to a plate of food and saying, “You know what this (fill in the blank) needs?

Photos by Anjuli Persaud and Frances Abraham Liverpool on the Corentyne coast is situated about 18 miles from New Amsterdam, and consists of 450 homes with about 1,000 persons, the largest proportion of whom are African-Guyanese.

Almost everyone reading this will have grown up with a map of the world that places Europe at its centre, with the Americas to its west and Russia to its east.

Important next steps At this stage I alert readers to two tasks which remain to be tackled before I wrap up this discussion of the medium term macroeconomic outlook.

All politicians lie, or sometimes play games with the truth, but the Presidents of Bolivia and Ecuador were so off the mark when they asked the Organization of American States to effectively kill its Human Rights Commission that one can only wonder whether they were being ignorant or blatant liars.

When I was young I played a little cricket. Indeed, one of my most precious memories, a memory now more that sixty years old, is of playing for my school third eleven on a rough pitch up at Mount St Benedict in Trinidad and taking five wickets in one eight-ball over with some slow cunning off-breaks which did not turn – they were an early incarnation of the doosra.

African marigold (Tagetes erecta) is the tallest marigold of the group, which includes Scotch, French and triploid.

By Nigel Westmaas This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

When it comes to reflection on the quality of life in one’s own time, there is always the looking back to a past ‘golden age’ when things were better. 

Some weeks ago I mentioned in a column that when I bought a nightclub in Toronto as a home base for Tradewinds, that although I had put up my house to secure the purchase, that didn’t quite cover it, and I had to turn to  my sister and her husband to put a second mortgage on their house to seal the deal.

Continued from last week Disorders of the bladder In the lower urinary tract, there are four basic problems, often interrelated. 

In the rainforest

Hi Everyone, Often we grow up following and maintaining traditions without knowing or fully understanding why we do so.

Introduction Notwithstanding the caption of this article, the first part in last week’s Business Page dealt not with the Hand-in-Hand Trust Corporation Inc (HIHT/the company) but with Winston Brassington and his brother who Winston boasted had saved HIHT from the fate of Clico.