Stabroek Weekend

Wordworth McAndrew passes on By Oscar Ramjeet Guyana has lost one of its greatest cultural and folklorist icons who died at the South Orange Hospital in New Jersey.

Do the interim EPAs create opportunities for Caricom? By Dr Clive Thomas We saw last week that as the WTO-waiver deadline approached at the end of last year, the stratagem that might best describe the process of hasty initialling of interim EPAs was “the aversion of disaster at all costs, with agreement reached nowhere.”

Freedom for the collision of views By Ian McDonald  Whatever happened to the National Broadcasting Authority Bill?

Nostalgia 373 By Godfrey ChinDuring 2003, I encouraged the Guy-Aspora to record ‘the street where they lived’ in Guyana.

Illegal disconnections: GPL should put its house in order By Eileen Cox The Guyana Power & Light Inc wastes no time when it wishes to disconnect a customer but takes its time when a reconnection is to be done.

The region needs a unified position on the global debate over climate change By David Jessop New international fault lines are emerging at the point where concerns about climate change, agriculture, food and energy meet.

Masquerade is an appropriate form for Carifesta By Al Creighton Carifesta X has been launched in Georgetown. 

Roundworms By Dr Steve Surujbally  Roundworm infections in dogs and cats occur pretty frequently.

Go easy on the chemicals By John Warrington I briefly talked about using chemicals towards the end of last week’s column.

Epilepsy: The brain’s ‘electrical storm’ Continued By Dr Santosh Mhetre  (Paediatric consultant) What to tell your doctor Most doctors will never see your child have a seizure; they don’t happen often in the doctor’s office.

Chess develops decision-making skills With Errol Tiwari ‘Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny’Making those critical and irreversible decisions over the chessboard determines the outcome of our game.

The challenges of the interim EPAs By Dr Clive Thomas This series of Sunday columns assessing the CARIFORUM-EU, EPA started on January 20 and after fourteen weeks it remains incomplete without an appreciation of some key issues surrounding the several interim EPAs, which were initialled in Africa and the Pacific at about the same time.

The Caribbean can learn from Iceland By David Jessop It is hard to imagine nations less like one another than the islands of the Caribbean and Iceland.

Miracle By Ian McDonald My sister, Gillian Howie, who lives with her husband Doug in a beautiful house on a cliff overlooking the ever-changing, blue-green, coral-shadowed sea on the north coast of Antigua, is a lover of West Indies cricket.

Always remember our feathered friends By John Warrington The trouble with an automatic watering system starts when you take your plants off it and start watering by conventional ways, say using fresh water in a watering can.

Making chess friendships stronger On Sunday, some unlikely chess players from grassroots Berbice began a cultural intercourse with the Guyana Chess Federation.

By Ralph Ramkarran, Speaker of the National Assembly In March 2008, Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh objected to a motion moved in the National Assembly by Mr Winston Murray, the Shadow Finance Minister, which sought to impose a limit of $10 million on the aggregate of debt obligations that may be forgiven, postponed or reduced by the minister without the approval of the National Assembly in any fiscal year.

Obama stumbles (Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica.

Epilepsy: The brain’s ‘electrical storm’  Part I By Dr Santosh Mhetre, MD  (Paediatric consultant) (Dr.