Stabroek Weekend

A very happy Christmas to all my readers. There are many shrubs that are pruned with shears.

On entering the village of Meten-Meer-Zorg one encounters a series of canals, a reflection of the grid-like order imposed upon the coastal landscape by the drainage patterns of the sugar plantation.

As you read this, the New Year celebrations are just around the proverbial corner.

The Iwokrama Forest and Rupununi Wetlands are home to healthy populations of Guyana’s Giants.

Christmas is a religious festival, but it is much more than that. 

Sunday Cartoon

For the last 15 years Christmas Day has found 49-year-old Jennifer Gulliver pounding the streets of Georgetown selling newspapers.

Hi Everyone, By the time you read this, the Pepperpot would have been made, the garlic pork set, the ham defrosted and possibly baked, the sorrel and ginger beer made and the Christmas cake, baked.

Following last month’s national and regional elections which saw the PPP/Civic returned to government, but without a majority, the opportunity is now ripe for the combined opposition to make the University of Guyana (UG) into an institution which produces leaders and which functions on a par with universities in the region and further afield.

What is striking about the mixed community of Kortberaad, East Bank Berbice (EBB) is the hard work residents are engaged in for survival and their pride in keeping their surroundings spic and span.

The Moray House Trust, set up in memory of David de Caires to help nurture the cultural and intellectual life of the nation, was launched this week at the de Caires family home in Camp Street.

Out of nowhere, sometimes from a complete stranger, sometimes from someone who knows you intimately, a chance remark will come to you and set you thinking about a subject you had not previously considered.

In this week’s column I shall wrap up the discussion of the transmission channels through which the global crisis has been transmitted to Guyana. 

Introduction This, my closing column for what was a truly eventful, indeed historic year is not about introversion or narcissism but one that was forced by reality.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – President Desi Bouterse does not want the war on drugs to relapse.

It is far from easy to explain what is happening in Europe. 

Two recent events brought Caribbean and Guyanese poet Martin Carter once again into focus. 

President Barack Obama’s recent announcement that he will seek to create what may be the world’s largest trading bloc along the Pacific rim raises an interesting question in this part of the world: whether we will see a de facto split of Latin America into a Pacific bloc and an Atlantic bloc.

Life and work in the garden rotates with remarkable speed, and absolutely nothing seems to come round with such speed as the Christian festival of Christmas.

Continued from last week Last week we dealt with paralyses that have their origin in congenital (birth) defects.Today