Stabroek Weekend

Introduction Today we continue our review of the 2008 financial statements of the state-owned corporation which are contained in its 2008 annual report tabled in the National Assembly late last year.

Headlines which constantly remind us of lethal crime heighten the sense of life’s fragility in all of us.

There have been a surprising number of readers who have contacted me concerning the observation that the Draft LCDS is, to put it mildly, unclear about the true size of Guyana’s forest cover.

During the past week, national chess champion Wendell Meusa made two public statements which are damaging to the integrity of the Guyana Chess Federation.

Tribute to steelbands before Mash 1970 By Godfrey Chin Steelband has been the essence of our Caribbean Carnival/ Mash/Crop-Over celebrations since this phenomenon emerg-ed after WWII, and remains a unique musical art form in the twentieth century, with efforts from Japan to Sweden usurping this contribution from our tropics.

Parliament Office has reported in the press that the Credit Reporting Bill 2009 has been committed to a Special Select Committee of the National Assembly.

Shortly after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, I wrote that the hundreds of millions of dollars pledged by the international community to rebuild the country would be a waste of money unless accompanied by a massive re-forestation effort.

Sculptor Jason de Caires Taylor, credited with creating the world’s first underwater sculpture park and currently spearheading an ambitious project in Mexico to install over 400 permanent sculptures at the Cancun Marine Park has Guyanese origins.

By Dr Kiran Koora, MDS (Paedodontist) In this article, I would like to discuss tooth decay in young children.

The View From Europe This month, senior Caribbean officials will meet in Jamaica with their European counterparts to consider the nature of the future Cariforum-European Union (EU) relationship.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

  Arts On Suday Today is World Poetry Day and yesterday was World Story-telling Day. 

A Gardener’s Diary Mussaendas, ixoras, gardenias, pentas and coffee are all related, and belong to a very large family of plants comprising over 600 genera and 10,000 species.

Last week, we explained that vomiting was a symptom which reflected a more deep-seated ailment.

In last week’s column I had expressed my concern over the variations in the stated area of Guyana’s total forest cover that are to be found in the LCDS and associated documents.

Introduction For more than a year, the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc has been in the press, mostly for all the wrong reasons.

The theme selected by Consumers International for World Consumers Rights Day is ‘Our Money – Our Right.’

There are good signs that the cause of literature in the state is being championed more vigorously.

Public resistance to the proposed establishment of a local intelligence gathering body has been loud and steady. 

On the 40th anniversary of Mashramani which celebrates Guyana’s attainment of republican status it is worth a brief note on the state of the cultural festival after four decades in 2010.