Stabroek Weekend

Plants grown for the beauty of their leaves are just as important as those grown for their flowers. 

Spasms of the larynx You may recall that we had described the larynx as the “voice box” which contains the vocal cords.

Digicel is giving its customers a chance to win three Suzuki Swift sports cars and $3 million in its grand summer promotion: “Swift Challenge”.

This will be one of the last photographs ever taken of the Bourda Anglican church before it is razed to make way for that most secular of

Edward Ricardo Braithwaite is a Guyanese novelist and scientist who served as writer, teacher and diplomat during his long career. 

Cartoon

Hi Everyone, bearing your soul. Letting down your guard. Inviting someone into an intimate space.

In last week’s column I continued the discussion of GuySuCo’s performance indicators and also dealt with several other items related to the pattern of yields of sugar cane on GuySuCo’s estates. 

Ask any Guyanese, at home or abroad, to name the first five things Guyanese that readily come to mind, and they often reply, Kaieteur Falls, Stabroek Market, St George’s, Parliament Buildings, Town Hall, and sometimes, Jonestown.

Several folk tales have many versions, so that the same story may be known in different countries each of which has its own variations on the theme. 

The Guyana Consumers Association presents this submission publicly appealing to all consumers to take cognizance of the likely passing of this Bill as it is in its present form.

Continued from last week Allow me to begin today’s column by correcting an omission from last week’s Pet Corner.

I have just finished reading a gardening magazine produced for the English market.

Piranhas belong to the family Characidae and are related to herbivorous species like the Pacu.

“Everybody is a hustler here,” is how Shakira Khan who vends at the busy Pomeroon River port of Charity in Region Two describes the area which is ideally poised to become Guyana’s newest town.

For years, many in the US and Europe have been wishing that Venezuela’s mercurial President, Hugo Chávez, would depart and a more pro-western leader take his place.

South Korea’s announcement that it will ban all school paper textbooks and replace them with electronic tablets by 2014 should ring alarm bells in the United States, Europe and Latin America — many of our children run the risk of being left even farther behind their digital-savvy Asian counterparts.

Hardly a month or even a week went by in my working life without one or other or both of these men appearing in the world’s headlines.

I like it the way it is

There are athletes who naturally impress us with their magnificent physical achievements of power and style that leave us gaping at the display, but the ones whom we take into our hearts, the ones we come to feel affection for, are the ones who also show us their excellence as people.