Stabroek Weekend

This week I shall consider the remainder of the downside risks facing the economy over the short-to-medium term.

Introduction As the season for general meetings moves into high gear, members, or as some companies call them shareholders, have been showing some interest in these meetings, although not always for what might be considered the right reasons.

It’s called Timehri now, but in the 1950s, when I worked there for three years, our international airport was called Atkinson Field.

Every nation in the world obsessively continues to measure success by the state of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

For much of the last week the world’s media have focussed on the outcome of Cuba’s Sixth Communist Party Congress which took place in Havana from April 16 to 19.

Number 68 Village, located about 41 miles from New Amsterdam has a population of almost 1,100 and is one of the most popular rice growing areas on the Corentyne.

Easter is one of the most important religious festivals for Christians and the second in magnitude of the two very prominent ones with extensive public appeal (the first of these is Christmas).

(Continued from last week) But a contrary position is offered by decentralization advocates who posit that if people lack capacity it is because they have not been given the opportunity since the system does not encourage nor afford nor facilitate the development of that capacity. 

Locust (Hymenaea courbaril) or ‘Stinking Toe’, grows on both clay and sandy soils and can be found along rivers in mixed Mora forests and marsh forests.

In Guyana, or at least in Georgetown, I don’t suppose that many gardeners feel any urgent need to have a water feature in the garden, because for a disproportionate amount of time you have an excess of it! 

Annually, on the last Saturday of April, the World Veterinary Day is celebrated.

Every weekday hundreds and hundreds of persons stream out, heading for the city, returning in waves at night.

Beneficiaries of hundreds of millions in Sports and Arts Development Fund uncertain.

It’s the middle of the day. A quite sophisticated Georgetown lady is parked in her car on Church Street, waiting for a friend, with the doors locked and windows up.

I will very soon be 78. A young man once wrote – or rather sent an email – to me asking about the magazine Kyk-Over-Al which I used to edit once upon a time.

Last week I had briefly assessed the downside risks of significant interruptions to capital and remittance flows into Guyana’s economy. 

Almost unnoticed, a development has occurred in Africa’s negotiations for their Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) with Europe that could result in increased levels of foreign investment in the Caribbean and Overseas Territories.

PANAMA CITY — Latin America’s most strategically-located country is booming, and its current prosperity is expected to accelerate in coming years thanks to a windfall of profits from the Panama Canal’s expansion.

Treatment of wounds Over the last few weeks, we have been discussing various aspects of wound management.

The traditional French kitchen is provincial by demand. Design history in general bears out the fact that the monarchs and nobility were the design pacesetters and that in most any century, the commoners followed suit by interpreting those designs through the means and supplies at hand.