Stabroek Weekend

Introduction Last week I started a discussion on the notion of tax fairness and equity, which I indicated is an essential feature for all well-functioning tax systems and thus tax reform in Guyana.

Daily life in Guyana, particularly if you pick up the newspapers, knows no shortage of despairing incidents – “jarrings,” I call them – that combine to strain one’s resilience. 

A child who develops a love of reading wins a prize that will last and last until the end of life.

The Crab Eating Fox (Cerdocyonthous) or Savannah Fox is the only fox that exists in Guyana.

In the north temperate zone Spring is on its way, and no garden is more famous for its Spring flower display than Keukenhof in the Netherlands.

By Earl B John Regrettably so few of us are around to pay tribute to one of the great all-round sportsmen of his generation – Maurice Moore, who died on January 8, 2012, in a nursing home in Toronto, Canada, after languishing for several months during which he reportedly lost conscious touch with his family and the rest of the world.

Two recent comments in the newspapers revisited the subject of the calypso art form in Guyana. 

Continued from last week Symptoms The clinical signs associated with this disease are variable.

Hi Everyone, friend: What food and drink have you given up for Lent?

Story and photos by Gaulbert Sutherland Reaching the shell mound involved stooping through tunnels made by the thick bush, balancing on slippery logs and tramping through thick mud.

Isaiah Berlin was in my view the most distinguished political philosopher and historian of ideas of the 20th century.

Up to now Europe has promoted the idea that the trading of permits to emit carbon is the best way to cap greenhouse gas emissions by aircraft and maritime transport.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s admission that he will undergo new cancer surgery raises a whole set of new questions about the viability of his narcissist-Leninist “revolution” both at home and throughout Latin America.

Calypso is once again under the lens in a fine unravelling by Raymon Cummings in a recent letter to this newspaper where he expressed urgent concern for the declines in standard, in quality of judging, in song topics, and in marketability of the material.

Introduction So serious are the defects in our tax regime I do not believe that Guyanese will be fobbed with anaemic or banal recommendations from the Tax Reform Committee.

Introduction I do not share the excitement of the media and the public about the revelations in the Auditor General’s 2010 report supplying further evidence of the excesses, mismanagement and improprieties which have become routine under Dr Ashni Singh’s stewardship of the Ministry of Finance.

Fifty-three-year-old Ann Charles has been a miner for almost 30 years and for many of those years she has carried a heavy burden, one which grew heavier as the years went by.

West Indian literature or the literature of the Caribbean provides an excellent illustration of the currently accepted understanding of what literature means. 

victims of domestic violence on how to speak out, where to go for help Victims of domestic violence are expected to receive much needed assistance following the formation of an organisation which aims to educate them on how to speak out on the issue by conducting “empowerment sessions.”

The Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) is tiny but aptly named and can be seen sitting and marking its territory in open savannah areas of the North Rupununi.