Stabroek Weekend

All forms of the state have operated in a world context.

It has been a lifetime highlight to serve, along with Sir Alister McIntyre, on the Governance Committee on West Indies Cricket chaired by former Prime Minister PJ Patterson.

A black widow is a common American spider with a characteristic that attracts much interest and curiosity: the female of the species is deadly.

Today is Remembrance Day. A very sad day for older people.

I am confused. What is the difference between an optician and an optometrist?

Over the last few weeks we have been discussing the difficulties bitches could have before, during and after puppy birth.

Surgery is a common reason for you to be in hospital.

Memories are being refreshed for scores of Guyanese who took an interest in the chess of yesteryear now that the National Chess Championships are being contested following a lapse in activity of well over a decade.

In the next two weeks European and Caribbean ministers and their trade negotiators are going to have to explain clearly to business in particular where the negotiating process for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the region has reached and what happens next.

The D&C (Dilatation and Curettage) is a small surgical procedure and perhaps one of the most misused.

Some of you may have found certain plants difficult to root from hardwood cuttings, such as certain mussaendas.

Some years ago Caribbean writer and cultural commentator Ian McDonald caused a minor stir when he criticised today’s popular music, in particular dancehall and soca, calling it mindless, shallow and mechanical.

The bitch, having given birth to her litter, usually is in fine health.

I went to get new glasses and the optometrist told me I have glaucoma.

But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before I sleep.

Last Sunday this column carried a portion of the text of Mr Cassian Mittleholzer’s broadcast in November 1971 which spoke of Aflatoxin and its dangers.

Toronto is a calm, clean, well-ordered, cosmopolitan, peaceful city. If one long weekend in this city of two-and-a-half million people there are a couple of murders it is an alarming law and order crisis.

Pity poor Thomas Shannon, the US State Department’s Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs.

Methods of rule I have been at pains to point out in the current series of columns, which are assessing my earlier thesis of four years ago about the state in Guyana being transformed into a vehicle for criminal enterprise that the “methods of rule” of a particular state do not exemplify its intrinsic essence.

Recently there was a new brand of Peanut Butter on sale in our markets.