Stabroek Weekend

Story and photos by Alva Solomon The sprawling community of St Ignatius in Region 9 is peaceful and quiet and residents there thrive on their ‘self-help’ customs to develop their environs.

Introduction I intended to start today a two-part column on the recent disclosures on Hand-in-Hand Trust Corporation Inc.

You can try to describe Kaieteur Falls to someone who hasn’t seen it; you can try, but you will fail.

Agony and debt In last week’s column I sought to direct readers’ attention to the debt stress that is engaging our economy and the distress this portends.

Certain words are beloved of bureaucrats: words like monitor, check, regulate, review, classify, and control.

In March 1980 David Renwick, the Trinidadian journalist, and I wrote an extended feature for the Caribbean Chronicle about the future outlook for the Caribbean as an oil producing region.

If presumptive Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s first major speech to a Hispanic audience in this campaign was an indication of his strategy to win over Latino voters, he is in big trouble.

The Brazil nut tree is a typically Amazonian tree that prefers non-flooded forest.

Hi Everyone, I have many cups in my cupboard, small and large, expensive and economical.

Story and photos by David Pappanah Located on the Corentyne coast, 25 minutes away from New Amsterdam and bordered by Rose Hall Town and Hampshire, is the friendly, peaceful village of Williamsburg.

 Introduction Amidst the din and controversy of ‘to cut or not to cut’, Guyana Power and Light Inc, the country’s number one, state-owned electricity supplier was voted the sum of five billion dollars in the 2012 Budget.

Joseph Brodsky, the great Russian poet who died at the sadly young age of 56, on receiving his Nobel Prize in the Grand Hall of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm in December, 1987, declared a great truth: “There is no doubt in my mind that, should we have been choosing our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programmes, there would be much less grief on earth.”

“What’s your favourite Tradewinds song, and which one you feel has had the strongest reaction?”

It’s not unusual in Latin American politics for presidents to clash with their predecessors who once helped elect them, but the current feud between former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and President Juan Manuel Santos goes beyond anything I’ve seen in a long time.

The Budget 2012 reveals that despite the statistical benefit which is derived from using the rebased 2006 GDP series as the denominator (because this has led to an approximately two-thirds increase in its size) the debt stock to GDP ratio for Guyana has increased from its low of 60 per cent in both 2007 and 2008 to 70 per cent in 2011. 

One of the oddities of the region is that it is often easier to read in the media about what is happening in North America or Europe than it is to discover what is happening in neighbouring nations that speak another language.

Continued from last week Kidney failure (uremic poisoning) Kidney failure, also called renal failure, may be sudden and acute or chronic and progressive.

Nibbi is a hemi-epiphytic plant.  This means that they attach themselves to trees but are rooted in the ground by aerial roots.

Amerindian art in Guyana has generated forms in painting and sculpture which are the most unique in the anglophone Caribbean. 

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