Stabroek Weekend

Chief Nurse of Beacon, Bibi Salim, recieves the donation from Managing Director of NAMILCO Bert Sukhai. They are flanked by other Beacon Foundation officials.
Chief Nurse of Beacon, Bibi Salim, recieves the donation from Managing Director of NAMILCO Bert Sukhai. They are flanked by other Beacon Foundation officials.

Beacon Foundation gets $1M donation to support care for cancer patients

Beacon Foundation Limited has received a donation of $1,070,000 from the Sea-board Overseas Trading Group through local subsidiary National Milling Company of Guyana (NAMILCO), which it says will assist the foundation with the long-term support of cancer patients and their families.

Tolerance

In a vibrant democracy elections should be a cause for celebration, an ever welcome occasion regularly marking the successful outcome of what in any country’s history has always been a long struggle to overcome authoritarian, and often brutal, rule.

Sri Lankan Pol (Coconut) Roti (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

Coconut Roti

At the beginning of the month, I shared with you a Sri Lankan side dish – Pol (Coconut) Sambol, and what I’d promised then was to try their Pol (Coconut) Roti that I discovered in my research, and share with you.

Beverly Ann McFarlane

‘Fighting the good fight’

As an eight-year-old, Beverly Ann McFarlane killed mosquitos at every opportunity she got, placed them into match boxes, counted and examined them—a harbinger of what lay ahead for the now microscopist.

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