Stabroek Weekend

Located some 8 miles up the Soesdyke/Linden Highway, the sparsely populated community of Kuru Kuru is struggling as residents plead with the authorities to develop the area.

Sunday Stabroek caught up with several personalities in society and asked them to share their New Year wishes with us.

We regret that John Warrington, who has been contributing ‘A Gardener’s Diary’ for many years, has indicated that he will not be able to continue with the column.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne?

By Ma Jian LONDON – No sooner had I finished reading an article that eulogized Václav Havel, the playwright turned dissident turned peaceful revolutionary turned president who had just died, than two subsequent news stories set Havel’s extraordinary career in context: the death of Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s pornography-addicted and nuclear-armed supreme leader, and the peaceful protests against land expropriation by the villagers of Wukan in Guandong province, southern China.

Continued Well, we have returned to ‘science’ after the holiday season.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

Service, currency, quality and affordable prices are the ingredients which have kept one of Guyana’s oldest and largest businesses going 60 years after it came into existence, according to its Executive Chairman Sattaur Gafoor.

Hi Everyone, I cooked this year but not as much as you would think, due to a rather hectic travel and work schedule.

When she married David Granger, Sandra Chan-A-Sue knew she was going to be a military wife which meant her husband would be away from home a lot of the time.

The celebration of Christmas in Kort-beraad, East Bank Berbice might be considered by some to be a bit old-fashioned; there is not much exchanging of presents and there is no extravagant spending on decorations or fancy items.

Halt! The market vendor shrieks. A bargain for this customer. Piece of beef and candy too.

The name of this newspaper was suggested by John Simon de Freitas at an informal meeting in the house of founder, David de Caires, and it resonated with all those who were present.

While persons in other parts of the country would celebrate Christmas at home with their families, the residents of Orealla and Siparuta, Berbice River, have major outdoor festivities.

Every now and then you run into people who are true masters at what they do.

I regret I start with grimness in my Christmas column this year.

Ever since President Castro first announced that Cuba was embarking on a far-reaching process of economic change there have been concerns about the implications this may have for the rest of the region.

Part 2 Introduction Today as we celebrate Christmas, a day marked as much for its commercial opportunities as for its religious significance, Business Page concludes a look-back at some of the articles carried in these columns during 2011.

Introduction In last week’s column I completed a brief description of the ten most important channels through which the negative effects of the global financial crisis and economic recession, which erupted in 2008 impacted Guyana and Caricom.

A key United Nations think tank that has been very bullish about Latin America in recent years is sounding a little less optimistic about the region’s economies for 2012.