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Chinese Five-Spice: star anise, cloves, cinnamon, fennel & sichuan peppercorns (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)
Chinese Five-Spice: star anise, cloves, cinnamon, fennel & sichuan peppercorns (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

Chinese Five-spice Powder

Hi Everyone, Every West Indian familiar with Chinese cuisine, refuses to make any of their favourite Chinese dishes without a few sprinklings of Chinese Five-spice powder added to their food.

Market

Cumberland Village 

Story and photos by Shabna Ullah Residents of the mixed community of Cumberland, East Canje in Berbice have various occupations and some have undertaken businesses ventures which have helped with the development of the village.

Bottlebrush

Small trees

For those who like trees in their immediate environment, but whose backyards are too small to accommodate a spreading saman because it would uproot the house, ehow has one or two suggestions.

President Rafael Correa of Ecuador

Not a smart move

Bogota, Colombia— The US State Department wasn’t terribly smart when it rejected a demand by Latin American populist leaders that Cuba be invited to an April 14 summit of President Barack Obama with 33 hemispheric leaders in Colombia.

Cornell Damon

Cornell Damon – PPP/C

This is the eighth in our series on new parliamentarians Essequibian Cornell Damon has been a member of the PPP/C for over two decades and he says he would use his new appointment as a member of the National Assembly to continue the work of the party and represent the people of Region Two.

What is literature?

What is literature?  Definitions have gone far and wide and have included common misconceptions, and for quite a while, there has been a new understanding of what is considered literature where the academic study of it is concerned.

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