Stabroek Weekend

As we observed World Consumers Rights Day on March 15 2011 consumers are reminded to know their rights.

The annual satirical revue Link Show 27 directed by Ron Robinson and produced by The Theatre Company and GEMS Theatre Productions provoked a number of letters and comments in the press in February 2011. 

I’ve kept this topic for last, on purpose. So many myths have been bandied about on this issue.

I know that most of you are sitting having breakfast in the warmth of a Guyana morning. 

Ghost

Hi Everyone, if you like Raisin Bread, then be prepared to love Antigua’s Raisin Bun.

From a farming and a fishing community, Bush Lot Village, West Coast Berbice which has a population of over 10,000 has developed tremendously with residents establishing various types of business.

An appendix to the budget speech includes some very useful indications about the health of the nation.

Camp Street got its name from the fact that it linked Stabroek and Cummingsburg to the military garrison in Kingston at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Since I first saw Mashramani in 1968, the festival has had an uneven history.

Karl Popper, one of the very greatest thinkers of his, or any, age, was modest in expressing his philosophical findings.

Guyana is home to four species of Caiman including the Spectacled Caiman, Black Caiman and two species of Dwarf Caiman; they are classified in the subfamily Alligatoridae and are often mistaken for alligators.

Colombian Navy soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint after a rebel attack in Lopez de Micay, in the state of Cauca, Colombia, Monday Feb 28, 2011.

Few people in the English speaking Caribbean will know the name of Felipe Vicini, the Executive President of Grupo Vicini, the Dominican Republic conglomerate that is engaged in everything from energy to agriculture.

Introduction Last week I demonstrated how huge government activity is in Guyana’s national economy. 

When you go to a nursery to purchase shrubs in containers you will, of course, have to establish that they are not newly potted before you plant them into the garden.

(2)  In any matter or hearing before any Court, where the Court considers that an act referred to in subsection (1) has been committed by an attorney- at-law other than the Attorney General or a Law Officer, the Court may make or cause the Registrar to make an application to the Committee in respect of the attorney- at-law under that subsection.

ContinuedSnake bite There was a time whenever I heard ‘snake bite’ as a cause of death, especially among domestic livestock, I used to laugh and deem it an embarrassment diagnosis.

By James G Rose (Trevor Burnard, Hearing Slaves Speak, UK : The Caribbean Press, 2010.

Hi Everyone, After all the pancake-talk last week, did you make any?