Stabroek Weekend

I am sometimes accused by bloggers, and often gently told by friends, that I am inclined to view life, and particularly life in Guyana, through a glass not darkly but beautifully rose-coloured.

It is a remarkable irony that a very public undertaking with the potential to energize and empower is mired in a bog of controversy and sometimes slick, sometimes jagged representations. 

Continued from last week 12.    (1) The employer may terminate the employment of the employee because the employee is redundant under the provisions of subsection (2).

At the halfway point in the DDL Topco Juices Chess Tournament, Taffin Khan, Omar Shariff and Shiv Nandalall  are leading with four points each with four games to go.

Continued Organ failures As can be expected, as the dog gets older, some of the vital internal organs tend to deteriorate.

Part 1By Dr Vineet Naja, MS (General Surgery) MCh (Urology) (Consulting Urologist and Andrologist) Prostate problems are common male health problem.

Gardeners in the tropics, including Guyanese gardeners, often get quick results. What would take several seasons to achieve in temperate climates may often take them only a year or so to achieve. Whilst

Mining for gold and diamonds is a major industry in Guyana.

A week or so ago, six tourism ministers visited London as a part of a group co-ordinated  by the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO).There

A new World Bank study is likely to raise high hopes in Brazil, Argentina, Peru and other South American commodity exporters.

Jamaican Beef Patties Hi Everyone, The first time I ate a Jamaican Beef Patty was not in Jamaica it was in Guyana.

Last week, in a column entitled ‘Knowing the Fine Fine,’ I made the point that to know any society, including this one, you had to remain imbedded in it for a long time, and that therefore when resident Guyanese tell expatriate Guyanese that they “don’t understand Guyana,” the comment is accurate.

Terms of trade  In last week’s column I had observed that, because of lags in their publication, timely trade data are perhaps the weakest of all the published economic series on Guyana’s economy.

Conclusion Introduction Last week, I diverted from a brief review on the gold-mining sector begun a fortnight ago to comment on the unfortunate death of Mr Gordon Maxwell, the small-time promoter who died by drowning as he tried to escape from the police while awaiting the posting of bail of $30,000.

An incendiary device destroys a motorcycle shop on Quamina Street; a business owner is executed on Water Street; four adults and a baby are shredded by automatic fire in Cummings Lodge. 

A day is dulled and dimmed if it passes and I do not pick up a book of poems in my library, browse in some anthology, find a new poem in the latest issue of Poetry Review or The New Yorker or some other magazine or at least before my eyes shut glance at some old favourite lines from Hopkins, Walcott, Yeats, Carter or a score of other supreme masters of the art and craft of making poems.

What future for Caricom? Recent developments in the form of concern about Trini-dad’s commitment to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) and the appointment of a new Secretary General suggest that the coming months may well determine its future trajectory.

Continued from last week 6. It shall be the duty of every employer to keep such records as are necessary to show that the provisions of this Act are being complied with in respect of persons in his employment and if he fails to do so, he shall be liable on summary conviction in respect of each offence to a fine of fifteen thousand, six hundred and twenty five dollars.

Continued Teeth and the oral cavity As dogs get older, even with the best oral hygiene, they tend to lose their teeth and exhibit gum diseases.

Revolutionary South African poet Mazisi Kunene equated “mother” with the earth, not only the ground, the bare earth, which is sacred to many traditions, but the world, the globe of humanity, and with a symbol of international unity.