Stabroek Weekend

There are thousands of women and men in Guyana who take a really great interest in the food that they eat, and I think that most, if not all of them believe that good food starts off with  good, high-quality ingredients.

Coughing is a reflex action which is initiated by an irritant in the air passages.

By Nigel WestmaasContext The New World, the inspiration of Lloyd Best in 1957, was a loosely organized grouping of intellectuals, educators, cultural workers, writers and activists mainly from the anglophone Caribbean or with Caribbean origins and interests. 

This Nostalgia seeks to record the enterprises on Robb Street in the old days, and pays tribute to the Mom and Pop’s businesses, when Georgetown was a thriving, flourishing business community.

Hi Everyone, All rice is not created equal. Therefore, all rice is not cooked with the same water to rice ratio or using the same cooking methods.

Introduction The detailed figures presented in last Sunday’s column on Guyana’s sugar production for the years 1961 to 2010 (on the basis of 3-year averages) and the accompanying chart reveal three notable features.

Among the frustrations in modern life are things so ridiculous, so patently illogical, that when you run into them you are propelled to ask, “When are we going to stop this?”

Introduction Five months after the passage of the largest budget ever, Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh has gone back to the National Assembly for an additional $6.3 billion for spending this year.

For a short while one summer day out of nowhere in my life she flashed like a comet across my sky.

What irony! Despite all their grandiose rhetoric about Latin American unity, Brazil, Argentina and Chile have not yet come out in support of Agustín Carstens, the Latin American candidate to head the International Monetary Fund.

Sometimes it seems as if officials are engaged in a game that involves having those they are most meant to help, guess about their intentions.

The Giant Water Lily (Victoria amazonica) is a flowering plant and the largest of the Nymphaeaceae family of water lilies in the world.

This Bill seeks to protect animals against diseases by controlling the movement of animals into, out of and within Guyana so as to prevent the introduction and spread of animal diseases within Guyana and other countries, and to ensure the safe and humane movement of animals to and from Guyana and to regulate the importation of animals and production of animal products and livestock feeds.

Another positive feature in the recent Guyana National Drama Festival was the clear sign that some amount of theatre is taking place among schools and youth groups. 

Continued from last week Before we continue, as promised, with the discussion on different types of breathing, allow me to mention a few more conditions (see last week’s TPC) which can contribute to respiratory diseases.

Deonarine Ramsook, 55, of Belvedere, Corentyne enjoyed being creative from a young age, not realizing that he would later develop his skill and earn a living from it.

Photos and text courtesy of Mr Dmitri Allicock The once popular 1897 Wismar- Rockstone railway symbolized upper Demerara and served as a cornerstone in its development before bauxite came to dominate.

Most gardeners will know that the bulb is a development in plants which is designed to assist them survive long periods of dormancy that occur in dry places on earth.

Part 2 Solid waste Collins told this newspaper that they are using the excavator to desilt the main drainage, starting from the outfalls.

At times it seems an ancient place slowly marking the passage of time under the shade of giant trees until modernity pushes its face out to proclaim its presence.