Stabroek Weekend

We are lost without the right peopleOne man is running a company with the help of three old family retainers, two others who haven’t had a new idea in a couple of generations, and a whole raft of school drop-outs.

Staggering increase in external debt Bad news The country’s stock of external public and publicly guaranteed debt rose by 20.3 per cent to US$804 million from the end of September 2007 to the end of September 2008.

‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive’It all seemed to be happening last week, in DC and beyond, and little of it was good.

The rebellion that erupted forty years ago on Thursday, January 2, in the Rupununi District has been the single most serious threat to the national security and territorial integrity of the state.

GPL was the most inconsiderate utility in 2008A New Year has begun and consumers are looking for improvements in their way of life.

Harold Pinter: The renewer of English drama in the 20th centuryAt the end of the year 2008 Britain mourned at the death of one of the most dominant and influential English playwrights of the contemporary era. 

Sowing seed in seed traysIn the ‘olden days’ (I refer to the 1940s and ’50s) normal sized seeds were always sown in a standard seed tray made of wooden slats tacked together in such a way that moisture could drain from the base after the seedlings had been watered.

Breast milk… best milk Part 2By Dr Santosh Mhetre, MD (Paediatrics)We will be continuing from last week’s breast-feeding advice.

Introduction Over the years this column has reported on its fair share of scandals in the financial world, often in the biggest this and biggest that.

How are the global economic reverses channelled to Caricom economies? Catching cold!

‘Open the clenched fist of the past’ It happens all the time in small, closely-knit groups – cabinets, party executives, boards of directors, church congregations or club committees.

In the present crisis national social partnerships have value A few days ago something quite extraordinary happened.

Ivanchuk v Leko A second rapid chess match between grandmasters Ivanchuk and Leko was held a few days ago in Mukachevo, Ukraine.

Israel in overtime Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica.

Diseases of the cornea We last dealt with conjunctivitis, an inflammatory process of the membrane which covers the inner side of the eyelids and part of the surface of the eyeball, (Pet Corner January 4, 2009).

Bird wive and mistletoe are relativesFor years I have had questions about an apparent disease on the underside of the leaves of the breadfruit fern, so named because of its similarity to the leaf shape of the breadfruit tree.

‘Dark novel’ Twenty-one years after it was first published and twenty years after it began to receive unending world critical acclaim, a book “universally acknowledged” as one of the foremost novels in contemporary literature written by one of the world’s most celebrated authors was yet again highlighted on centre stage before an international audience. 

Are children really fooled? Santa Claus soared into the headlines of the Stabroek News in the early days of December.