Stabroek Weekend

Arts on Sunday (Continued from last week) Michael Jackson rocketed into a celebrity kingship and deified empire as an impressionable youth. 

Had it not been abolished in 1975, the Queen’s College Cadet Corps which was founded in 1889 would have celebrated its 120th anniversary this year.

Who’s your daddy? Today Wayne Brown embarks on a new series entitled In our time, in which he ventures beyond the world of Obama-era US politics.

The View from Europe By David Jessop (Executive Director of the Caribbean Council for Europe) How should Caribbean governments seek to support tourism during a global recession?

‘Our interest is helping to build strong local government’ Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana Charles Court is currently wrapping up his three-year tenure before returning to Ottawa, Canada, as the Director of Operations for the Reconstruction of Afghanistan.

A Gardener’s Diary When I was a very young boy I always had difficulty remembering the difference between bulbs, corms, tubers, and rhizomes.

Guyana and the Wider World E – Mail address cythomas@guyana.net.gy Observations Last week’s column sought to make three major observations about the ongoing global economic crisis.

Ian on Sunday Why this glaring discrepancy between prowess in the short versions and generally abject failure in Test cricket?

The global economy: Economic recovery or more misery Last week’s column diverted to treat with the recent disclosures about the CL Financial and Stanford International Groups.

Consumers are contributing to the blockages in the sewerage systemAn attempt to find out the date when the Georgetown sewerage system was started has failed.

Report of the Auditor General 2007: Different year, same messNo change The report of the Auditor General on the Public Accounts of the country for 2007 has been tabled in the National Assembly and is now officially available to the taxpaying public and commendably on the Audit Office’s website.

When it is a matter of your heartBy Dr Ritesh Kohli, MD The biggest risk does not know the risk You can develop heart disease if you don’t manage your heart health and other risk factors.

Meteors How is a great poem created? It is a mystery.

A day in the garden My word, what a day that was in the garden.

Ailments of the nose/nostrilsSneezing Sneezing is a symptom, not a disease in itself.

The ‘Peter Pan’ of musicAs the astonished world mourns Michael Jackson the work of two pastoral writers and a bit of Freudian analysis can help to understand the complexities of an extraordinary talent and how the manner of his early death was in a way the final articulation of a highly celebratory but curiously tragic life. 

The world on his plate Ten months ago, when John McCain suggested that rival Barack Obama join him in suspending his campaign to make a dramatic dash back to Washington to ‘fix’ the US’s suddenly looming financial catastrophe, Obama declined.

In the latter part of this year, government leaders from around the world will meet for what the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, has described as an “unprecedented” global summit.

The Sasha Cells is under wayThe Sasha Cells eight-round swiss tournament began last Sunday at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club, and four rounds have been completed so far.

Literature Al Creighton Evelyn O’Callaghan writes in the Editorial of the Journal of West Indian Literature (JWIL) Vol.15, Nos 1&2, November 2006, a Festschrift in honour of Eddie Baugh,  that in 2006 “.