Stabroek Weekend

Dun Robin is a tiny village on the Corentyne highway. So small that it consists of approximately eight houses with about five families; it might just be the smallest village in the county of Berbice, or maybe in the entire country.

The woman lovingly attended to what appeared to be a small wound on the one of the child’s fingers.

It is sometimes the case with the international events surrounding us that an occurrence in a distant country can have relevance for us, in completely separate matters, in our homeland.

It would cost US$700 million a year to immunise 250 million children in poor countries against polio, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanus and tuberculosis. 

Sex and politics intersected in an explosive controversy that has gripped the United States as Professor Christine Blasey Ford gave evidence last Thursday to the United States Senate about a sexual assault perpetrated against her in the summer of 1982 by Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, on the US Supreme Court.

Question: What was the mood at the team meeting the night before the Test, bearing in mind that it was going to be Clive’s last Test match and the team had a chance to become the first West Indies side to go through a full tour of Australia unbeaten in Tests?

Hanging baskets make a lovely display on your patio or around your house.

The Snowflakes Sail Gently Down                                     The snowflakes sail gently down from the misty eye of the sky and fall lightly, lightly on the winter-weary elms.

I get told a lot that my writing is hugely based on weight loss.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour continues to look at the Test matches lost by the West Indies during their streak of not losing a Test series from the summer of 1980 to February 1995.

SWFs &Global Capital Circuits Today’s column revisits my earlier discussion (January 8 to February 5, 2017) of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs).

The Black-crested Antshrike (Sakesphorus canadensis) is found in tropical South America in Trinidad, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, northern Brazil and northeastern Peru.

Guyana was the first team to be interviewed at the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia, for the popular online magazine, Chess Base.

Hi Everyone, What’s Cooking is a series in which I answer questions and share advice about food and cooking that you may have but are too shy to ask.

They say that you shouldn’t meet your idols as they almost always end up disappointing you.

“The House with a Clock in Its Walls” feels almost anomalous in 2018.

Two films at TIFF this year – both inspired by true events – seemed preternaturally linked in their representations of race and racism in Europe.

More than a century ago, an Arawak family of six—two parents with their three daughters and one son—left their home in a little place called Dawa in the Essequibo in search of an area that had enough trees to provide lumber for building.

Partly from her conservation interest and partly from  her access to  Air Services Limited aircraft, my wife Annette has pretty much been all over Guyana, so when she came home last week raving from a trip to Karasabai, describing it as a standout in our country, I had to pay attention.

Of all the other Caricom countries, Guyana has enjoyed the closest relations with Trinidad and Tobago.