Stabroek Weekend

Life

I like to tell the story of Tony Judt. Tony Judt was a writer on recent world history whom I greatly admire.

A pair of Blue-and-yellow Macaws (Ara ararauna) in the Botanical Gardens, Georgetown.  (Photo by Kester Clarke / www.kesterclarke.net)

Blue-and-yellow Macaws

Blue-and-yellow Macaws usually mate for life. They prefer to nest in dead palm trees as is the case here in the Botanical Gardens and they feed on a wide range of fruits, particularly palm nuts and leafbuds.

Koarlall Deojami weighs a pound of potatoes in his shop

Susannah

Just before Bohemia on the Corentyne, East Berbice is the tiny village of Susannah, also called Number 15, a fairly obscure community as most persons refer to the road up to the Borlam turn as the “Nineteen Road,” although Number 19 is a few villages away.

A brief look at Guyanese Independence literature

On previous occasions we have offered surveys of different areas of Guyanese literature, from its origins in the oral literature of the native Amerindians in the pre-Columbian period, through the beginnings of the scribal literature—both Dutch and British—covering the colonial literature up to the founding of modern Guyanese national literature.

Pharaoh

The word ‘Pharaoh’ and other abuse reverberated around downtown Georgetown a week and a half ago, directed to an embarrassed Mr Bharrat Jagdeo.

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