Stabroek Weekend

These are no more than sparks snatched from the fire of their lives – encounters with two of the men who were most memorable in my life.

The setting sun, chirping insects and rough water as it flowed over the rocks all fused to contribute to the picturesque setting that greeted us as we arrived at Tumatumari – a small village tucked away in the Potaro River in Region 8.

If your garden occasionally begins to look like a paddy field or you get pools of water which lie on the ground for quite long periods of time, then you almost certainly have a drainage problem.

When your dining room and living room are essentially the same room, decorating can be confusing.

People often use the words “seizure” and “convulsion” as synonyms, but they don’t mean exactly the same thing.

Introduction One of the eight consumer rights agreed to internationally was the right to be informed. 

The recent performance of the Jamaican play Ova Mi Dead Body by Paul Beale was a very timely intervention where the state of Caribbean theatre is concerned.

We have been discussing ailments pertaining to the respiratory system of our pets.

The Guyana Booth at the World Expo in Shanghai during October  last year was a huge attraction and created much interest with its display of the country’s unique heritage.

The career of tinsmith David Moses, 55, began in his father’s tin workshop, where he began as a youngster cleaning the debris from the previous day’s work.

Hi Everyone, Cooking is simple. Cooking is easy. Cooking is quick.

Such men as these walk onto a field of play, or enter a room, and their life-force brings everyone to silence and attention – these were two men who in their very different ways set my mind alight.

A beautiful chicken hawk patrols the area behind our house. A vigorous flyer –you know the species – it surveys the territory from a perch high up on a GT&T telephone wire, swooping down occasionally to snatch a kreketeh or some other delicacy.

Republicans in Congress have launched a major offensive to force several million undocumented immigrants to leave the United States with a bill that would make it mandatory for US employers to electronically verify workers’ legal status.

Ever so slowly the Turks and Caicos Islands are on their way back to having an elected government and a full constitution.

Introduction In last week’s column I had indicated that Guyana’s sugar production, similar to the situation in the rest of Caricom, has been so high cost that it could not survive commercially without the special external marketing arrangements which the region had negotiated under the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement (CSA) and its successor the European Commission – African, Caribbean, Pacific (EC-ACP) Sugar Protocol.

Introduction Even though auditors sell their services, the profession of auditing – certainly of the financial kind rather than the forensic type – is unlikely to feature in the list of top one hundred most sexy professions in the world.

It’s 4 am in the rainforest and you are awakened by the sound of loud eerie roaring; if you are new to the environment it can be a disconcerting sound.

Early on a Monday morning, seated on the pavement in front of Guyana Stores Limited, Daniel Ramiah is already at work patiently sculpting images on calabashes.

Overlooking the Linden/Soesdyke Highway is an Amerindian settlement called Waiakabra. On the surface this community which comprises at least 30 households looks like a dream spot to live.