Stabroek Weekend

Hi Everyone, I receive a lot of emails from people crying out in frustration wondering why their once soft, fluffy, hot roti has gone dry or hard by the afternoon.

Part 2 Introduction I was totally surprised at the very informed responses to last week’s introductory part on the country’s housing situation.

As planned, last week I completed the examination of GuySuCo’s key performance indicators.

While much has been written about the fact that Latin America’s rapidly growing economies are largely immune to US financial woes, President Obama’s deal with Congress to avoid a US debt default will have a negative impact throughout the region.

One of the most remarkable men of the 20th century undoubtedly was King Sobhuza the Second, Lion of Swaziland. 

I was living in Toronto, 44 years ago, playing music full time with the Tradewinds band, when the annual Caribbean festival in Toronto known as Caribana was born. 

Violet Rodrigues, 84, a retired teacher of Kildonan Village, Corentyne who still takes her morning walks to “keep fit” was always actively involved in the development of her community and the youths.

When I was a mere lad I always had difficulty with the difference between bulbs, corms, tubers, and rhizomes.

This is the second in our series by the Guyana Bar Association outlining for the benefit of citizens, the power of arrest, detention and search conferred by the law on the Police Force.

Wetlands are areas that hold water, either seasonally or permanently; they have been titled the kidneys of the landscape and biological supermarket because of the functions they perform in the hydrological and chemical cycles and the extensive food web and rich biodiversity they support.

Bronchiectasis Don’t be intimidated by this big technical term. You will recall that last week we discussed pneumonia.

(Continued from last week) What are the benefits? “We have found that there are numerous benefits to securing standards, namely having a defined procedure in place with a structured management system that can be audited and performance benched-marked.

An assessment of the African presence in Guyana becomes topical annually around the time of the anniversary of Emancipation. 

Hi Everyone, last August when I was in Guyana and on the hunt for Chinese food, pastries, etc, you know, a taste of home, everyone kept telling me that I must try the Yangzhou fried rice.

Necessary questions Today’s column begins with my response to two questions, which several readers have raised with me, privately.

The 34-country Organization of American States is better known for its cocktail parties than for its contributions to mankind, but congressional Republicans may have been drunk the week before last when they voted to end all US funding to the regional institution.

Anyone who has read the recent pronouncement by the usually optimistic Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Pascal Lamy, cannot help but conclude that there is no longer the global political will to deliver an all-embracing deal on trade liberalisation.

It has been a pleasant diversion to think back over the years and give brief accounts of outstanding people whose paths in life I have crossed, if only peripherally.

I sometimes play this game where I ask persons to complete the following sentence: “You know you’re in the Caribbean when…”  You get some delightful responses and often surprises; you should try it some time.

Introduction    In an op-ed column in the influential New York Times on December 21, 2007 Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, columnist, bestselling author and professor of economics at Princeton University, wrote of the mortgage crisis in the USA that “the explosion of ‘innovative’ home lending that took place in the middle years of this decade was an unmitigated disaster.”