Daily Features

A Turquoise Tanager (Tangara mexicana) at a fruiting tree in Timehri.  (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Turquoise Tanager

The Turquoise Tanager is mainly dark blue, with turquoise edging to the longest wing feathers and a yellowish lower underparts.

Sorrel Chutney Photo by Cynthia Nelson

Sorrel Chutney

As promised, I am sharing with you a recipe to make a chutney using the boiled and softened sorrel after it would have been cooked to extract the juice to make last week’s Sorrel Liqueur.

The security guards deserve better

Security guards are people who deserve the utmost respect. It is a profession that many of us would never venture into either because of the pay, the shifts or because our qualifications and/or interests lead us in a different direction.

A crater, cenotes and clay

A slim, greenish brown band in a layer of clay clearly separates two key geologic eras all over the world, showing abnormally high microscopic concentrations of iridium, a rare dense, brittle element that best resists corrosion and bears a beautiful silvery burnish.

‘Smart-man’ and disruptive politics

Temptation to pay little attention to the inscrutability of the governing political elite in its dealings with the selection of a new chairperson for the Guyana Elections Commission gave way to concern as I came to realise that the situation may be somewhat more complicated and possibly detrimental to the body politic.

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