Stabroek Weekend

There have been a handful of men who have made a deep and unforgettable impression on me: my father, first and always; Jock Campbell, Chairman of Bookers in the 1950s and ’60s; Martin Carter, whose poetry time as it passes burnishes to a yet brighter gleam.

Introduction This is the first of a series on forestry policies and current practices in Guyana.

St Lucia’s new Minister of Tourism and Aviation, Allen Chastenet, has a refreshingly different perspective on government.

The simplest way to raise trees and shrubs is from cuttings.

Pain is a universal human experience. It is an unpleasant sensory experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.

Tapeworms, though not as lethal as hookworms can be equally debilitating in the long run.

One of the greatest pleasures I have is talking about plants.

When my daughter began nursery school about six years ago, she came from school one day so anxious to relate what had occurred, the words were tripping over each other.

My wife is trying to get me to stop smoking and she says it can damage my eyes.

Introduction Last year this publication ran a story regarding a potential reform being considered by the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) to replace the current pay as you go system with a system whereby benefits are set with reference to the amount of contributions paid into the scheme (‘NIS eyes contribution-based pensions proposal as part of reform,’ Sunday Stabroek, November 5, 2006).

Listening to Barbados Deputy Prime Minister Mia Mottley, speak in Aruba one could not but have sympathy with her and the difficult hand that she has been given to play over Caricom’s new visa regime.

There is no connection between sexual mores and job performance. Many of the greatest leaders in history were unbridled lechers.

Continued from last week Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, was the location for the encounter between Fischer and Spassky.

The poor are always with us. In Guyana we are very conscious of the fact that many of our consumers are living from hand to mouth.

Last week we took a brief look at contemporary African poetry as illustrated by a selection from a poet resident in Britain, Nigeria born Ben Okri, who won the Booker Prize 1991 for his novel The Famished Road.

One of the interesting elements of African poetry is the way it has journeyed in Africa, in Europe and through the diaspora around the world through originality, imitation, modern, identity consciousness, back to imitation to become an influence on the originality of a major contemporary literary movement.

A consumer asked “Why have consumers been misled? We were told that the cost of living would not rise, that food prices would remain the same.

I did say last week that we would move into the discussion on tapeworms.

The debate was already raging when I joined the small group downtown, well-wishers of chess who enjoy discussing the literature of the game, and the people who play it.

Why do my eyes sometimes look red in photographs? The back of the eye contains two layers, the choroids, which is made up of blood vessels and is red, and the retina, which is made of nerve fibres and is much thinner and is transparent.