Stabroek Weekend

Hi Everyone, Though the holidays are all about traditions, as they should be, there is nothing wrong with shaking things up.

Hague is a small West Coast Demerara village located about 12km away from Vreed-en-Hoop.

Introduction December 9 was an important day for Guyana. For the first time since 2003 when the United Nations designated the day as International Anti-Corruption Day to raise awareness about corruption as an international and domestic agenda issue, the day was marked with a public activity – a seminar – in which the Government of Guyana took part.

Contrary to what most headlines suggested, and to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s claim that it’s the most important thing to have happened in Latin America in the past 100 years, the new group of 33 Latin American and Caribbean states created at a Dec 3 summit in Venezuela will hardly make it into history books.

Our historians have missed a great deal by placing too much emphasis on the role-play of parties, and political and social factors in writing the pre and post-independence history of our nation. 

I approach the columns I write for Stabroek News appreciating that, among other things, they are likely to trigger discussion.

Introduction Last week’s column indicated that, during the coming weeks, I would be assessing the present state of the global crisis, which began in 2008. 

The UK Treasury’s failure to reform Britain’s Air Passenger Duty (APD) leaves the Caribbean’s relations with the United Kingdom in a difficult place. After

Anyone who writes about life must think about death. It is not being morbid to do so.

Mexico gave us the Aztecs, the delicious tacos and very large hats.

Continued from last week Paralysis Usually parlayses are associated with problems of the spinal cord.

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou sayst, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Sunday Cartoon

Hi Everyone, It is traditional at this time of the year that we have large hunks of meat as roasts, especially for the large family gatherings.

Herstelling is located on the East Bank of Demerara and is known not only because of its new housing scheme, Somerset Court, but because its ample size and proximity to Georgetown (7.9 kilometres) notwithstanding, it remains a close-knit country community.

It happens all the time in small, closely-knit groups – cabinets, party executives, boards of directors, sports associations, church congregations or club committees.

Approximately 15 years ago yesterday, a young man from Berbice arrived at Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Retrospect When I was first invited by the then Editor-in-Chief David de Caires about a decade ago to write a regular Sunday column for the Stabroek News, which would focus on locating  Guyana’s situation  in the context of regional and international developments, I readily agreed to undertake this task. 

Introduction At a time when the National Insurance Scheme is experiencing the results of more than two decades of bad governance it has just dished out some $600 million to buy the CLICO building on Camp Street.