Stabroek Weekend

Hi Everyone, Last week Friday my palette was brutally assaulted by the taste of dried herbs in the food I was eating.

y Roxanne Clarke with photos by Anjuli Persaud La Bonne Intention familiarly known as LBI is a village located on the East Coast of Demerara.

This is the fifth in our series on new parliamentarians A Partnership for National Unit (APNU) parliamentarian Christopher Jones will be pushing for a national youth policy which would seeks to create meaningful activities for young people to

Introduction If Governor Mitt Romney, a leading candidate for the Republican nomination in the US 2012 presidential elections thought that he would neutralise the attacks by his fellow candidates by publicising his 2010 tax returns, he was wrong.

I hope the young, intelligent and energetic Minister who has been put in charge of education in the country takes a fresh look at what needs to be done.

Introduction The mindset of five major groups of stakeholders to the tax reform process (individual taxpayers; the law-making authorities; the public at large as beneficiaries of government spending; the tax administration authorities; corporate and other business taxpayers; as well as organisations like unions, farmers’ organisations, consumer groups and professional associations interested in greater transparency, fairness and efficiency in the tax system) have been briefly described in my two previous columns.

Caribbean governments, tourist boards and hoteliers are no strangers to the difficulties of dealing with the cruise lines when it comes to issues that touch their loosely regulated but highly profitable industry.

Several weeks ago, I wrote a column entitled ‘Knowing the fine fine‘ on the point that to understand the why and the how and the where of conditions in a country you have to live there a long time in order to begin to see all the factors, many invisible, that are operating on the particular aspect that’s bugging you – garbage in town; speeding minibuses; shoddy workmanship, etc.

In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Barack Obama talked about the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, but didn’t say a word about a war that is taking place next door, and that is killing more people than the others: the drug-related war in Mexico and Central America.

Thirty-eight year old antenna maker Chetwin Moriah has been making antennas for the past 20 years.

Continued Sprains and strains Last week, I mentioned that lameness is a symptom, an expression of some deeper malady. 

The Darking Thrush I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires.

The burning desire to create an avenue for Guyanese women to unite and work together in addressing the many ills that affect them is behind newspaper columnist Stella Ramsaroop’s move

With golden eyes and a tawny, golden colour the Puma (Puma concolor), is a long legged, rangy cat which ranges from North America to the tip of South America and exists at elevations up to 4,500 m, hence the name “mountain lion.”

Hi Everyone, Last week, in this 2-part series looking at the required water content for creating dough, I explained that there was no definitive answer as to how much water is needed to make dough.

By Brendan de Caires The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2011.- 

The predominately African-Guyanese village of Lovely Lass, West Coast Berbice, seemed quiet during a midday visit with most of the residents busy trying to get chores done.

Last week was not a mixed week for the nation. On one day, the front page of the Stabroek News read: ‘PPP/C addressing voter loss’and ‘Granger says [APNU] not afraid of new elections,‘ both reports arising out of press conferences by their respective parties.

In a recent conversation with Godfrey, amidst the multitude of evocations that continually cascaded out of his extraordinary memory, he told me about bird-whistling competitions and donkey-cart racing in Guyana long ago, and described to me the hundred and one manifestations of that condition of bewitched infatuation in a man or a woman called typee.

Introduction There is considerable irony to the fact that, as I pointed out last week, less than six months after the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP 2011-15) had highlighted the ongoing Tax Reform Action Plan (TRAP) in force since 2003 as a “tremendous success,” the incoming minority PPP/C administration, in one of its very first deliberate post-elections economic policy actions in December 2011, has established a Tax Reform Committee!