Stabroek Weekend

Arts On Sunday During this week the work of two of the most important Guyanese authors, Martin Carter and Edgar Mittelholzer,  will be celebrated since it will mark two anniversaries. 

The view from Europe In early December the President of the Domi-nican Republic, Leonel Fernandez, was in Europe.

ChessWe are not expecting chess games which feature deep and inventive play from those schoolchildren who have converged in Georgetown for the National Schools Chess Championship. 

A Gardener’s Diary A few words about climbers, an invaluable group of plants which can cover up anything unsightly like concrete, soften the most angular of structures,  and  raise the general level of flowering plants in the garden.  The

In this column last week I started what I hope will be a fairly full assessment of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).

Part 3 Introduction This is the third and penultimate instalment of a short series reviewing the mid-year financial and economic report presented last month by the Minister of Finance.

Climate change is a key issue today.  Consumers International has made some recommendations on Climate change and energy.

Many records exist of colonial and pre-independence Guianese poetry, but they are in different forms and different types of resources, and for the main part one has to seek them out in various places. 

ContinuedNutrition and dental health Last week, we spent some time discussing the cleaning (brushing) of dogs’ teeth.

Writing about the threat that soaring levels of crime pose to Caribbean stability, in a week in which most columnists are offering their opinion on rising sea levels may seem perverse. 

History often saddles people with reputations that are undeserved. Take Florence Nightingale.

Health By Dr Santosh Mhetre, MD (Paediatrics) Most people, including children, infected with the H1N1 virus (swine flu), have had mild disease, but some have had more severe illness.

Christmas has become associated with a whole range of traditions, some of them fairly ancient, and others of more recent vintage.

A Gardener’s Diary I suppose that introducing the subject of worms just after breakfast on a Sunday morning is not quite the done thing, but the interesting thing is that they are very garden friendly. 

by Jean-Michel Severino Jean-Michel Severino is the CEO of the Agence Française de Développement and a member of the blog www.id4d.org.

Schoolchildren across the country who play chess are eagerly awaiting the commencement of the National Schools Chess Championships this Saturday at the Carifesta Sports Complex, Carifesta Avenue.

for what else is there but books, books and the sea, verandahs and the pages of the sea to write of the wind and the memory of wind whipped hair in the sun, the colour of fire.

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Last week I concluded my rather extended discussion on the current global economic crisis and the lessons to be learnt from this.

(Continued) By Dr Pankaj Kshatriya, MD (Physician) What is a stress test?