Stabroek Weekend

Recently a number of readers have asked me to offer an opinion on the prospects for the Guyana economy over the short-to-medium term. 

Shieldstown, a quiet village on the West Bank of Berbice was established after officials from the GuySuCo Estate at Blairmont made arrangements for residents of Rampoor Settlement to relocate there.

Frogs are amphibians; they have moist, scaleless skin and are exothermic animals. 

Since early childhood when I lived in the Lake District of England in an old farmhouse, I have been afraid of bats. 

Continued Last week, we discussed the emergency control of haemorrhaging due to cuts and assorted wounds on the extremities (legs, tails), etc.

(Continued) Rule IV-Conflict of Interest 1. An attorney-at-law shall not devise or represent more than one interest in a matter nor shall he act or continue to act in a matter when there is or is likely to be a conflicting interest; which includes but is not limited to the financial interest of attorney-at-law or his associate, and the duties and the loyalties of the attorney-at-law to any other client or prospective client, including the obligation to communicate information.

The theatre of satire in the Caribbean has a very strong history and tradition dating back to the period of slavery. 

Hi Everyone, A few weeks ago, I received a request for a recipe for Cheese Pie, “the kind that sells at Salt and Pepper.”

Although an isolated village, Mocha-Arcadia has many modern amenities that residents in the city are accustomed to.

Introduction Last year when the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry published its annual report for 2009 Business Page interrupted its series on the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation.

Given the fractured and dislocated conditions of our history in this region, Caribbean people have had a hard climb up the ladder of self-worth.

Rain forests are rich in biodiversity and are home to many different plants and animals.

I am not a horse-racing fan nor a lover of horses however thoroughly bred into strength and beauty they may be but once a friend of mine and connoisseur of many of life’s artistic achievements, including that of great horse-racing, sent me a piece of marvellous writing which has ever since figured right at the top of my list of the best sports articles I have ever read.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — For a man who prides himself on having taken “unprecedented steps” to try to ease five-decade-old US tensions with Cuba, President Barack Obama did not look eager to make new gestures toward the Cuban military regime when I interviewed him Tuesday.

Introduction Last Sunday’s column sought to make the argument that, despite the fact government activity in the economy is so huge and  it operates as a drag, impeding economic performance and growth, there are at least eight economic functions that the government is best situated to accomplish. 

Continued Fourth Schedule Code of ConductPreamble This Code of Conduct is intended to lay down minimum standards to which attorneys-at-law are required to adhere.

You really have to enjoy gardening to embrace it as a hobby, and those of us that do become part of what you might call ‘the magic circle,’ a very superior kind of old boys/old girls’ association, in which honours are earned more by the number of blisters on your hands than anything else.

Let us today begin with a new chapter – a discourse on wounds.

On March 24, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne,  made a long awaited announcement about the future of Britain’s controversial Air Passenger Duty (APD), the discriminatory tax that charges those travelling out of the UK more to fly to the Caribbean than to the west coast of the United States.

Hi Everyone, a plate of boil and fry of any ground provision or a combination thereof is so satisfying that all you need is one meal of it and you are set to go for a very long time – sometimes an entire day!