Stabroek Weekend

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.

SMALL ARMS A critical subtext to last week’s discussion on globalization, governance and the criminal state in Guyana is the role that “small arms weaponry” as defined by the United Nations continues to play in both the consolidation of the criminal faction within the ruling elite and the wider criminal violence daily evident in the society.

The long history of cultural contact between the United States of America and the developing world is interesting, varied, colourful, and often charged with controversy.

Any practical person in charge of anything periodically asks the question: “How do we get things done most effectively?”

Marcus Garvey’s visit to British Guiana in October 1937 is considered the high point of the existence and activity of his United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in the colony.

So, now mom has delivered her litter of energetic, squirming, squealing (when they are awake) puppies.

What is a cataract? In our eye we have a lens, and when we are young, the lens is clear, like clear glass.

Aging in women is associated with the menopausal transition. At the menopause a child-bearing woman has to cope with cessation of her periods and many changes both physical and mental.

On October 23 the European Commission published a new Communication (policy paper) on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA).

Following a regrettable hiatus of well over a decade, the National Chess Championships are back.

Some time ago I visited the garden of an old and dear friend and I only wished then that everyone could see it.

Introduction Demerara Bank Ltd (DBL) kicks off the full year reporting season for those companies with September 30th year ends.