Stabroek Weekend

Heads of state speaking at the United Nations last week painted a bleak picture of the world’s future, talking about the great recession, rising poverty rates, global warming, and armed conflicts everywhere.

Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, scepticism about climate change appears to be gaining wider global credence.

T  he Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana) is a common wetland bird that ranges from Panama and Trinidad and down into most of South America. 

In western societies, the general punishment meted out to convicted criminals is time in prison.

When I was at junior school we were taught about the pH scale, a scale which determines the level of acidity or alkalinity of the garden soil.

Amerindian literature is a significant factor in the Guyanese cultural heritage, and it is important to highlight its contribution at a time when there is a focus on the Amerindian heritage in the country. 

Continued form last week Well, let’s see what we have learned about that rapidly spreading scourge of heartworm.

Hi Everyone, have you ever noticed how great food tastes when it’s a dish you didn’t plan or don’t quite have the ingredients for it, or you just threw it together on the spur of the moment?

By Frances Abraham with photos by Anjuli Persaud Between Foulis and Golden Grove on the East Coast of Demerara, lies the hospitable community of Enmore.

Introduction As the life of the Ninth Parliament comes to its constitutional end later this week, Business Page thinks it opportune to review its productivity in terms of its legislative agenda.

While, as the saying goes, there is very little to be gained from crying over spilt milk, the fact of the matter is that the large income transfers made by the EU to Guyana (averaging over 8 per cent of Guyana’s GDP at its peak in the 1990s) when the Sugar Protocol was in force until 2006, have left few positive economic legacies. 

The progression of the prominent, the ones who appear before us as elected politician, social activist, business tycoon, etc, is intriguing for the different stages in the professional lives of these individuals. 

Death is among the most ordinary of experiences. After all everyone dies.

BRASILIA — While waiting at the Miami airport for my flight to Brazil one day last week, I read a press report that Brazil’s tourism minister was illegally using a government driver as his wife’s private chauffeur.

(Continued from last week) Last week, we documented that the heartworms live mostly in the right side heart chambers.

Guyana Prize Chairman of the Jury Victor Ramraj in his official report commented on the excellence of the poetry in the Guyana Prize 2010 which prompted the panel to select a shortlist of six books. 

In Guyana, an unusually large proportion of felony prosecutors in the High Court in order to prove their case and get a conviction rely heavily on written or oral confessions obtained from the accused while he was in police custody.

The Variegated Tinamou (Crypturellus variegates) species was first identified from a specimen collected in French Guiana and is the larger cousin to the Little Tinamou. 

There is a plant which has been grown in Europe for over four hundred years and which I believe originated in North America.

Hi Everyone, The salt war has come home. Last week, Canadian Professor of Nephrology, Euan Carlisle, while responding to a question about the possible cause of the large number of renal failure cases in Guyana (at the opening of The Doobay Renal Centre), said that a contributing factor might be that our diets are loaded with too much sodium.