Stabroek Weekend

Sixty-five miles south from the capital city lies one of the larger housing schemes in Guyana: Amelia’s Ward, Linden.

America’s insatiable appetite for oil is leading to her own ruin and endangering the whole world.

When I formed the Tradewinds band in Toronto in the late 1960s, we played frequently at a small bar downtown on Yonge Street (the main drag) called the Bermuda Tavern. 

Statistical deception Last week I examined one of two recent instances of what I described as official misuse and abuse of Guyana’s economic statistics.

By Ronald G. Burch-Smith The High Court as a venue for the trial of serious criminal matters is both woefully underutilized and at the same time over burdened.

The Talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera) is one of the most extraordinary plants.

The month of October happened to be important for a few cultural traditions celebrated in Trinidad and Tobago, and this seemed to have inspired a popular magazine to produce a culturally rich issue. 

The previous series of articles dealt with the heart and circulatory system. 

When I interviewed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently, I was curious to hear what he would say about US congressional criticism that the United Nations has become hijacked by totalitarian regimes.

Caribbean Containers Inc, a public company in the paper recycling business has reported turnover for the first half of 2011 increasing by 9.3% over the same period last year.

On November 29 the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, will present his autumn statement to the UK Parliament. 

Sunday Cartoon

Hi Everyone, Let me start with a cliché – with apologies to all English teachers the world over – “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” 

Springlands/Number 78 is known as a business hub in the town of Corriverton, and includes the backtrack crossing which facilitates cross-border trading with Suriname.

Reputation Among economists, econometricians and statisticians who conduct serious research on the Caribbean and expend considerable effort mining the region’s economic datasets, Guyana has held the unsavory reputation for decades now, of being the country where political manipulation and Government misuse of official statistics are carried to their worst extreme.

In my home, a step down off the dining room, overlooking the beautiful garden my wife has created, I have my studiolo.

Colombia, Panama and South Korea are celebrating the long-delayed U.S. congressional approval of their free trade agreements with Washington, which Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos called “the most important treaty in our history.”

Purpleheart (Peltogyne venosa) belongs to the family of Caesalpiniaceae. The species is found growing in sandy plains and terraces and it is distributed throughout Central and South America from Mexico down to southern Brazil; in other parts of the world it is referred to as Amaranth and Violetwood.

Diaries can be repetitious things and I often find that in this diary my memory tells me that I am dealing with things that I have talked about before. 

Introduction As President Jagdeo prepares to demit office in another few weeks there is a single issue with which his name will always be associated in CARICOM.