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Wales Estate truck drops workers home
Wales Estate truck drops workers home

North Section

Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj   One of the cars parked at Stanleytown junction, once full, takes off to its destination.

The Wales situation

Introduction: one-off As I have done over the past several years, I had intended, some time much later in the year, to devote a few columns to an update on the state of Guyana’s sugar industry.

It’s in the genes

Scrolling through my Instagram timeline last week I came across a funny meme with the caption: “Some people can eat five burgers and not gain a pound; I click ‘like’ on a picture of a Nutella jar and gain five pounds.”

Moray House headlines Wales estate closure

The announcement by the government that the Wales Sugar Estate would be closed at the end of 2016 was the subject of a symposium at Moray House at Camp and Quamina Streets, the former home of the late David de Caires, the founding editor of Stabroek News.

 Cumin-spiced Sweet Potatoes (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

Cumin-Spiced Sweet Potatoes

Cumin/geera and potatoes seem to have a natural affinity. Potatoes, being bland and porous, easily absorb the flavour of whatever they are cooked with (it is one of the reasons potatoes are added to foods while cooking to remove excess salt).

Grafting and budding

  Grafting and budding are horticultural techniques used to propagate cultivars which are more vigorous when grown on another plant.

Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola) in Georgetown.  (Photo by Kester Clarke / www.kesterclarke.net)

Bananaquit

The Bananaquit has dark grey upperparts, and a black crown with a white eyestripe.

Shrimping Hubert Moshett Oil 1972 Photo courtesy of National Gallery of Art

Shrimping

In this their eleventh Conversation on Guyanese art Artists Stanley Greaves AA and Akima McPherson examine Hubert Moshett Shrimping.

Human nature: Politics, position – and power

Basdeo questions Bharrat After completing twenty-three years within this ‘paper and column, regulars would appreciate that I am not given to – or can’t manage – the more academic, more analytical/philosophical reviews and assessments, whilst discussing or exploring issues.

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