Daily Features

Guyana needs a national names authority

There has been much comment on the proclivity of the present regime and its associates to name and rename various national objects and institutions, and this article has been prompted by the dispute over its wish to rename Ogle International Airport and the possibility that the City Council might give rise to more controversy if it still has on its agenda the renaming of 100 city streets for our Jubilee celebrations.

West Indies Cricket Team 1933 – Cyril Christiani is middle in the front row

Standing up to the MCC

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour fuses fact with fiction to compose a diary of wicketkeeper Cyril Christiani’s participation in the 1935 Series against England.

Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow

Remembering Critchlow’s contributions

By Nigel Westmaas   How the Poor Live “…There has been a good deal said on all sides, but personally I sympathise with all the laboring sections in the colony and my organisation as well as myself feel not alone for the sections we approached the Chamber of Commerce on behalf but also for the much underpaid clerks, who as well toil faithfully and hard for their meagre stipends, and are exposed to the same cruel, vicious nefarious and highly immoral profiteering system existing.

Cheddar-Scallion Biscuits Photo by Cynthia Nelson

Cheddar-Scallion Biscuits

If you are looking for something special to make for breakfast on this Mother’s Day morning or for afternoon tea, these cheddar-scallion biscuits would be ideal.

Vomiting

Having discussed the ailments associated with the oesophagus (that tube which connects the oral cavity with the stomach), the next step would be to zero in on stomach problems.

Farley for President! Darkly handsome,  and  exuding an air of assuredness whenever he sits at the  chessboard, Frankie Farley (in photo), feels his  imminent obligation is sharing his expertise with the younger generation of chess players. He theorizes there is a chess grandmaster sauntering  around in our midst, but we have to find him or her. Farley is, therefore, seeking the distinguished  presidency of the Guyana Chess Federation, with the intention of creating ‘a new beginning’ for chess aficionados; a beginning of confidence, trust and faith.  

Frankie Farley throws hat in the ring for chess federation presidency

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. – Winston Churchill   Assuredly, demonstrating a negative attitude with clear absences of transparency, prime examples of high-handedness and pellucid cases of disinterest is tantamount to courting disaster, and has contributed the demise of many.

Crocus

Crocus commonly called Rain Lilies in Guyana originated in the Mediterranean Region and South West Asia and is a member of the Iris family.

FACES

In our lifetime, we will see thousands of faces. Facial expressions can give hints about what troubles the heart and what makes it happy.

Arrival, ‘cohesion’, Douglahs

The American “Solidarity Forever” trade union battle song was meant to say it all: in unity there is working-class strength; strength to negotiate workers’ rights even though there should be no need to have to “bargain” for just rewards.

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