Stabroek Weekend

Pale-breasted Thrush – Georgetown
(Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)
Pale-breasted Thrush – Georgetown (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Pale-breasted Thrush

The Pale-breasted Thrush (Turdus leucomelas) is found in wooded habitats in eastern and northern South America, from Colombia to Uruguay.

Chess Grandmaster Viktor Bologan from Moldova is flanked by President of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) James Bond on the right and Director of Sport Christopher Jones. At extreme right is Vice-President of the GCF Frankie Farley. Bologan paid a visit to Guyana last week following discussions with Bond in relation to the upliftment of chess in Guyana. 
Chess Grandmaster Viktor Bologan from Moldova is flanked by President of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) James Bond on the right and Director of Sport Christopher Jones. At extreme right is Vice-President of the GCF Frankie Farley. Bologan paid a visit to Guyana last week following discussions with Bond in relation to the upliftment of chess in Guyana. 

Moldovan Grandmaster visits Guyana

Moldovan Chess Grandmaster Viktor Bologan paid a brief courtesy visit to Guyana last week to examine ways of enhancing the development of the game.

After a little rain, this four-foot drain was flooded; the rice fields can be seen behind.

Coffee Grove

Tucked between Lima and Danielstown on the Essequibo Coast is the tiny village spanning a hundred rods in length called Coffee Grove. The village, which now thrives mainly on rice farming, was previously a coffee plantation and this is where it got its name.

Silver linings

Samuel Johnson, that great man of letters and heavyweight of good sense in eighteenth century England, commonly said the people whom we should most beware in the world are those who constantly insist on finding fault, those whose clouds are never lit by silver linings, those who everlastingly “refuse to be pleased.”

Two versions, one road

For the first version, I’m going back in time quite a stretch, back to the early 1950s in my youthful years in West Demerara, first at Hague and then at Vreed-en-Hoop. 

LUCAS STOCK

The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 2.90 percent during the third period of trading in August 2018.

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