Stabroek Weekend

As development moves apace at the recently established Tabatinga Housing Scheme in Lethem, residents there are anticipating an increase to the already growing population at the small border community.

When I was a young lad growing up in the Lancashire/Yorkshire we had a patio which started off its life with my family as a truncated cricket pitch.

Continued from last week Last week, we had reached the point where, after cleans-ing the wound and removing dead tissue (debriding), a decision must be as to whether the wound will be closed, or managed as an open wound.

(Continued from last week) Last week we pointed out that the noise emission standards were not being observed. 

That part of Guyanese literature that may be described as East Indian literature is indistinguishable from the totality of the nation’s writing in terms of styles, themes, subjects and other concerns of authors today.

Anyone who has played sport at the highest level knows that sinking nervous, almost fearful feeling before a big event.

There was a time – and not so long ago at that – when the mass distribution of a personal opinion was a very restricted process. 

Hi Everyone, When it comes to food, I do not have secrets.

Features This week I start a discussion on the upside potential/opportunities facing the Guyana economy.

Introduction Even as mainly organized labour assemble at their various points today to march in silent resignation, listen to flat speeches from their leaders, numb their plight and pain with music, food and liquor produced by their colleagues for the profits of the investing class, the evidence so overwhelmingly confronting their membership on this Labour Day points to a movement that is in complete crisis, their numbers in decline, their leadership in disarray, their unity in tatters, and their very survival in question.

In recent years, with so many lacklustre Caribbean cricket teams frustrating us with their poor play, and particularly with the sad state of the once supreme regional team, you lose some enthusiasm for cricket, and even end up not watching some games at all.

Not long ago I wrote a column throwing freezing water on the usefulness of election manifestos or indeed any master plan.

Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice which has a population of just about 100 residents is located about 54 miles from Georgetown and is the administrative centre of Region Five.

Kufa (Clusiaspp) is a plant which is widely distributed in the tropical rainforests of Guyana and belongs to the family of plants known as Clusiaceae.

Just a few words to finish off what I was saying last Sunday about ornamental pools in the garden.

It should be recognized that Standards were established to make living easier for citizens. 

Malefactor (Left) So you is God? Den teck we down! Tiefin doan bad like crucifyin!

Continued The week before last, we discussed the ‘washing out’ of the wound.

Cartoon

Hi Everyone, people the length and breath of the Caribbean have a serious love for smoked Herring aka red Herring.