Stabroek Weekend

The Guyana National Bureau Standards warns consumers as follows: We are already in the Christmas season and it is generally the peak period  for purchasing  household items including electrical appliances.

Continued from last week Treatment In those instances when you have actually witnessed the dog ingesting a poisonous substance (rat bait, say), you can at least try to institute immediate supportive remedial action, according to what the poison was, even before you begin your trip to your vet.

Remember the Golden Rule: Tree roots will grow outwards as far as their branches, and often more than the area covered by their branches (the canopy). 

Guyana has crowned a new teenage chess champion in Taffin Khan, 19, the youngest ever to my knowledge since the Guyana Chess Association was established in 1972.

Hi Everyone, ‘Tis the season the oven gets most fired up.

In the song “Angels Wings”, dedicated to Caribbean mothers, I am actually singing about the life of my own mother, Zepherina Barcellos, who left many impressions on me. 

Introduction Business Page joins in paying tribute to Winston Murray, economist, attorney-at-law and politician who offered this country a unique blend of experience, expertise, capacity for research, hard work and patience, all reinforced by unusual humility, integrity and respect for others.

Reading prevents your life ever narrowing down to the humdrum, the routine or the boring.

It was the end of an ordinary day, when a most ordinary woman made a decision. 

Hopetown Village, West Coast Berbice is fairly quiet on a normal day, although it is known for holding grand soirees as part of its emancipation celebrations.

In this week’s column I shall conclude the discussion of the underground economy in Guyana by highlighting some of its crucial features.

Who will breathe life into the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe: government, the private sector, regional institutions?

They play an important part in masking structures which are unsightly, and raise the flower level far higher than is normally achieved by shrubs, and many trees. 

The Neal & Massy /Seven Seas National Chess Championship ends today with the final two rounds being played at the Ocean Spray Hotel.

After difficulties with farming made it unprofitable, Bharrat (only name given) and his friend Desmond Sookram decided to become crab vendors in order to make a living.

The popular appeal of dance in Guyana has escalated quite as much as the rising numbers of new dance groups and companies.

Coping with crisis Whom do shocks hit the most? Who are the most vulnerable to crises?

Continued from last weekLast week, we dealt with poisonings that occurred because of stings and bites by poisonous insects and other life forms. 

Hi Everyone, I made bacon! Yep, right in here in my home, I made bacon.

These columns I produce every week for Stabroek News are fun to write and fun, also, for the feedback they generate.