Stabroek Weekend

During chess legend Garry Kasparov’s visit to Jamaica in April, he was asked to give compelling reasons why he should succeed the incumbent Kirsan Ilyumzhinov as president?

Introduction Before considering options for the way forward in the sugar industry, I shall first examine challenges posed by its underperformance as revealed in the behaviour of the standard performance measures since the 1990s as well as last week’s analysis of Guysuco’s predicament.

While we are mostly accustomed to savoury spring rolls, changing the ingredients and making sweet spring rolls is both a surprise and a treat.

The aptly named Stinkhorn Mushroom is distinctive for many reasons: it has a single stalk, a lacy, slimy cap and it really stinks!

Petunias originated in Argentina and the surrounding region. They get their name from a word the French borrowed – ‘petun’– meaning tobacco.

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Hi Everyone, I am not a perfectionist but I get my sense of perfection from my mother.

Story and photos by Shabna Ullah   Rice was very much in evidence at Tempe, West Coast Berbice with some farmers drying paddy in their yards or on the roadways.

Introduction   The serious weaknesses and massive underperformance of Guyana’s sugar industry during the past two to three decades were revealed in previous columns, through an evaluation of six standard performance measures that are routinely applied to the assessment of sugar industries.

It is astonishing to me that a third of the year is over.

The Walter Rodney Inquiry dominated the news last week. The evidence given and hopefully to be given by former and current activists of the WPA and the participation of the PNCR, suggest that the Inquiry will be provided with material, information and oral evidence, to enable it to arrive at a credible conclusion.

Largest Companies Republic Bank (Guyana) is by far one of the largest companies in Guyana by any measure.

Apple Turnovers (with solid Coconut Oil)   Did you get a chance last week to try making pastry dough with the hardened (refrigerated) coconut oil?

On a recent trip to Orlando I saw a comment by Sam Roberts, son of former Guyana Police Chief “Skip” Roberts, on the widespread Caribbean practice of pinning nicknames on people, especially males, and he noted the almost amiable nature of the practice in that, most of the time, nobody takes offence to the monikers even when they could be seen as disparaging.

– the final ‘wrap–up’ column After more than 45 years of veterinary practice and participating in dozens of ‘refresher’ courses which share the latest knowledge in animal health matters, it has become clear to me that pet owners, over the years, still ask the same questions relative to the best nutritional regime for an elderly pet.

When I read the document about the “crisis of capitalism” issued by Venezuela’s ruling party last week, I couldn’t help wondering whether its writers live on this planet, or have been watching the news in recent years.

Reihan Salam is a Reuters columnist, a fellow at the R Street Institute, and a contributing editor at National Review.

This is a Rupununi Rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus trigonicus) that was found last October while the World Wildlife Fund-Guianas and Global Wildlife Conservation were conducting a survey in Guyana’s south Rupununi savannah.

Horizon Arts Production is a theatre company that was recently founded and has cemented its place on the Guyanese stage in the past four years.

Later this year China will become the world’s largest economy, overtaking the United States roughly five years earlier than was previously expected.