Stabroek Weekend

Is the value of the 2008 EU Cariforum Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe attenuating or can it still be made to work to the region’s advantage?

Today we continue our review of the annual reports of two more of the country’s public companies – Caribbean Container Incorporated (CCI) which held its annual general meeting last Friday and the Guyana Stockfeeds Incorporated (Stockfeeds) whose annual general meeting is scheduled for tomorrow.

Four years after Latin America made headlines by becoming a world leader in giving out free laptops to millions of schoolchildren — an idea that has since been embraced by more than 20 African, Asian and Eastern European countries — the first results are in, and they give some reasons for hope.

Introduction The noise that surrounds the presentation and debates of annual national budgets in Guyana for decades now is legendary.

Sometimes you learn from an unexpected source.  When I lived in Grand Cayman, I came to know one of the older boat builders, an interesting man named Ira Walton.

Crabwood is a common component of season-ally inundated forests along streams and upland lateritic hills in Guyana.

Many ornamental plants have the reputation of being hard to care for.

General comments Today, we commence a whole new topic. Ailments of the urinary tract are quite common in dogs and cats.

A new play, Front Yard, was performed a week ago at the National Cultural Centre by one of the newest theatre companies in Guyana. 

Hi Everyone, I couldn’t possibly reveal the subject of this column in the headline for fear that you might not buy the paper.

Story and photos by Alva Solomon Situated a few miles south of the tip of Guyana, Hosororo Hill is one of the many hill-top communities which dot the landscape of the Mabaruma sub-region in Region One.

My last two Sunday columns elaborated on the proposal for a Budget Office to be established in the National Assembly (NABO). 

The economic role played by creative industries significantly exceeds anything previously imagined, according to a recent report produced by the Geneva based World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

Demerara Distillers Limited, a conglomerate group comprising several local and overseas companies with manufacturing, trading, banking and trust relationships in Guyana, the region, North America and Europe as well as a joint venture in India and associated companies in Guyana and Jamaica, will be holding its annual general meeting this coming Friday, April 27.

Again this year the Link Show was a huge popular success.

Whether she intended it or not, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s decision to nationalize Argentina’s biggest oil company earlier this week has placed her nation in the camp of Latin America’s radical populist countries — alongside Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua — in the eyes of the world.

Wherever we live, there are situations or conditions or attitudes in the society that we come across, or they come across us, that have a negative impact on how we see the place. 

Soft Wallaba or Wallaba is a canopy tree and seems to have a preference for extreme soil types – from very hydromorphic soils to dry soils.

Continued from last week This disease affects puppies of the large, rapidly growing breeds, especially those three to seven months of age.

Trevor Rhone’s Old Story Time has now become one of the most revisited plays produced and performed in Guyana.