Stabroek Weekend

Hi Everyone, Green is the number one colour when it comes to food.

Sparks from the central fire – I was lucky to be near enough to feel the blaze these men ignited in the world ●     Derek Walcott, or rather his poetry, entered my life when he was twenty and I was seventeen.

In recent weeks I have heard vehemently from several persons, here and abroad, about the need for Guyana, in the midst of all the bad news, to be shouting about the positive stories that are around.

In last week’s column I had indicated that GuySuCo’s Report for 2009 stated that there was no payment of dividends for that year, as in many previous years.

MADRID — The widely expected victory of the centre-right People’s Party in Spain’s next presidential elections is drawing growing attention to statements by party officials that they plan to change this country’s foreign policy, and become much more critical of Cuba, Venezuela and other authoritarian regimes.

Introduction Earlier this week I received a copy of a wonderful book called Poor Economics written by professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of the renowned research university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Located about 12 miles from the Berbice Bridge and 14 miles from New Amsterdam, the village of Belvedere on the Corentyne boasts about 25,000 residents.

Introduction The Guyana Consumers Association welcomes the introduction of this Bill like many other Guyanese. 

Whales can be 50ft in length, weigh 20 tons, and have a appetite to match.

Continued Vocal cord paralysis (VCP) Last week I said that vocal cords are situated in the larynx (voice box).

Popular plays revel in topicality and reap rewards from their engagements with something resembling the carpe diem philosophy relished by Metaphysical poets in the camp of the ‘Cavaliers’ of the seventeenth century. 

The Bishops’ High School Old Students Association members exotically dressed in

Sunday Cartoon

Road work in evidence: A freshly

Hi Everyone, So I felt like eating pancakes. I spied the apples on the counter top and began to think about how I could incorporate the apples into the pancakes.

Introduction In last week’s column on the sugar industry I had ended with the presentation of a table on GuySuCo’s expenditure on two key items, namely, “employment costs” and “materials and services” for the years, 1990, 1995 and the decade of the 2000s.

Introduction A report compiled last November by the staff of the IMF in which two officials of the World Bank participated predicts a brighter future for Guyana despite the challenges, risks and threats to the economy.

Across Europe, many governments are in financial difficulty. From Greece to Ireland, Portugal and Spain, public expenditure cuts, austerity and retrenchment coupled with low levels of growth and rising inflation are creating significant political problems.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s critics have taken advantage of his three-week absence for treatment of what was at first an undisclosed illness in Cuba to blame him for all kinds of misdeeds, but it’s time to give him credit for having performed a true economic miracle in his country.

Joe Brown, the original bass player of the Caribbean Tradewinds band, would not eat breadfruit because it was “slave food.”