Stabroek Weekend

Introduction The deadline for submission of tenders for the purchase of the government’s 20 per cent stake in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) company is fast approaching.

Where was the real El Dorado? El Dorado has been associated with our Guyana for so long, that we tend to think that the myth originated here.

One of the stranger aspects of the Caribbean is the disjunction between the many reports and studies produced by academic or multilateral institutions and the thinking of those intimately involved in the industries concerned.

A lot has been written in recent days about the well-deserved Nobel prize for Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.

By what values should we strive to live in order to achieve a community in which differences are accommodated, a community where there is diversity of discourse but a recognition of the common good regardless of politics, religion, race and personal beliefs?

“Wife of murdered Mercy Wings guard struggles to make ends meet” (SN, October 10). 

Introduction The recent rebasing of Guyana’s National Accounts series from 1988 prices to 2006 prices has created three major areas of difficulty for a comprehensive evaluation of Guyana’s macroeconomic performance during the 1990s and 2000s.

When there is a lot of dry weather around one’s thoughts should go to conserving moisture in the ground, and here the application of rather heavy mulches is the order of the day for really precious plants.

Continued from last week (2) For the purpose of subsection (1) – (a) the accused looks after persons under eighteen years of age if the accused is regularly involved in caring for, training, supervising or being in sole charge of such persons; (b) the accused looks after the complainant on an individual basis if- (i) the accused is regularly involved in caring for, training or supervising the complainant; and (ii) in the course of the involvement, the accused regularly has unsupervised contract with the complainant (whether face to face or by any other means) 20.

By Akima McPherson Stemming from Nochlin’s article, themed exhibitions showing work of previously neg-lected groups within the art community became staple: Black American artists, His-panic American artists, Native American artists, etc, and numerous books were written dedicated to the re-inclusion of women in the Western art narrative. 

It is quite amazing how we humans like to ‘cure’ ourselves and our loved ones.

The Topco Juices National Qualification Chess Tourna-ment for entry into the National Championship begins today at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club in Hadfield Street.

SAN DIEGO (Reuters Life!) – Back in July, Bruce Willis made his first visit to Comic-Con, in part, to promote his new movie RED, which is based on the graphic novels about a reassembled task force on the trail of modern-day killers.

Hi Everyone, last weekend, during my weekly telephone conversation with mommy, she expressed a desire to have a slice or two of raisin bread.

Recently I spent two days in Florida, two days in New Jersey and five days in Maine, mostly just travelling about, noticing Uncle Sam’s ways, reflecting on back home ways, eating some good food, checking out the fall colours in the leaves – in other words, essentially down time.

Introduction President Jagdeo can be extremely unpredictable if not irrational at times.

Someone read a column of mine and meeting me asked “What do you see in poetry, Ian?

There are some things wrong with this title.  First, David most likely missed the bus; second, there is nothing that is going to be great about this election; and, third, it has already lost the intensity and energy of a respectable race. 

A walk into the past Have you ever looked at a building and wondered what was there before it 50 or 100 years ago?

Last Sunday’s column focused on two key results following on the rebasing of the national accounts calculations from the 1988 base year previously in use, to the 2006 base year.