Stabroek Weekend

Forest definition As pointed out last week, today’s column starts an assessment of Guyana’s non-mineral extractive sector.

Dangerous driving While restricting minibuses to what in effect are regional routes results in a differentiated market, it does not necessarily result in a differentiated service.

A friend of mine was away in the South Rupununi for a couple weeks, doing some work and checking on some family, and was telling me about his travels – he was all over the map.

There are four major issues relating directly and indirectly to corruption facing Guyana at the present time.

I was reading the magazine Planet the other day and came across an article in it by the Welsh poet and playwright Damian Gorman which made an impression on me.

(Continued) Bad breath Let us turn today to a problem which I had promised to address some time ago – bad breath (halitosis) in dogs, and the supposed cures associated with this problem.

If you read the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post or some of the world’s other heavyweight newspapers, you may have seen in recent months, articles discussing the abolition of currency.

This week we begin a fortnightly series called ‘Urology and You’ by Satyendra Persaud MBBS DM (Urol) of the Department of Urology, San Fernando General Hospital, Trinidad and Tobago.

There is a private collective of workers known as the Main Street Art Group who held a ‘grand art exhibition’ at the Pegasus Hotel in mid-February titled ‘Jubilee Art’.

The Green-backed Trogon inhabits dry and humid forests and can often be found near forest edges where it eats fruit and sometimes insects.

As much as we may like certain ingredients, buy and cook them regularly, there are times when we seek to have them in different ways.

Having added to debunking the myth that strength training would suddenly morph women into bulky, manly beings, my thoughts naturally turned to the quality of training.

The 2016 World Chess Championship title match would be held in New York.

A few Sunday ago, workers from the M&CC trimmed the historical Silk Cotton Tree at the Archer’s Senior Citizens’ Home on D’Urban Street.

In their continuing series, Artists Stanley Greaves AA and Akima McPherson examine Cyril Kanhai’s Green Land of Guyana. 

Hi Everyone, I have found over the years that many people are shy to ask certain questions about food and cooking that they think are too obvious or silly.

When I attended Marian Academy, there was always a day designated during term time for reflection.

New Aanlegt is the longest of the villages in Canal Number Two with a population of approximately 2,500 people.

Introduction Last week I had indicated today’s column would continue to discuss potential pitfalls arising from Guyana’s heavy dependence on extractive export industries, and the likely deepening of this dependence in the coming time of oil and gas production and export.

Following some recent local shows featuring popular imported artistes, we’re hearing some clamour again from the adult crowd complaining about the decline in popular music.