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Soft wallaba
Soft Wallaba or Wallaba is a canopy tree and seems to have a preference for extreme soil types – from very hydromorphic soils to dry soils.

Musculoskeletal problems
Continued from last weekThis disease affects puppies of the large, rapidly growing breeds, especially those three to seven months of age.

New production of Old Story Time is helpful to CXC students
Trevor Rhone’s Old Story Time has now become one of the most revisited plays produced and performed in Guyana.

Especially happy people
The world is endlessly fascinating, countlessly full of interesting people.

Letter Kenny
The quiet village of Letter Kenny, about seventeen miles from New Amsterdam on the Corentyne coast, has attracted attention because of its swirl-shaped coconut tree which many think is quite phenomenal.

The GT&T share sale (Conclusion) and the New Building Society
IntroductionIn today’s Business Page I conclude the discussion started last week on the announcement by Dr Roger Luncheon that the government has sold the country’s 20% shareholding in the telecommunication company Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited (GT&T) to an unknown Chinese entity.

Information is not always persuasion
When I decided to write a weekly column for Stabroek News, some preconceptions were involved.

Cartagena summit should not reject ‘democracy clause’
When I asked Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos about the ongoing US-Latin American spat over Cuba’s absence in the 33-country Summit of the Americas that he will host in Cartagena this weekend, he gave an answer that many civil rights advocates find troublesome.

The tourism industry needs hard information to convince policymakers
It was scarcely surprising to hear that when Caribbean foreign ministers met in January with their British counterpart the most divisive issue was the UK’s discriminatory tax on travel, Air Passenger Duty.

Budget Office: Beyond trust in official economic data
In last Sunday’s column I repeated the bold assertion, which I had made a year ago that a National Assembly Budget Office is “needed to restore trust in official economic data.

Tapir
The Brazilian Lowland Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) lives only in South America.

The power of the jonkanoo parade
We have on different occasions reviewed the masquerade tradition in the Caribbean.

Musculoskeletal problems
Continued from last weekLast week, we spoke about the nutritional effects on the bone structure and formation.

Sunday Cartoon
Sunday Cartoon.

To speak the name of all the humble
The West Indies have produced a number of writers of world stature.