Stabroek Weekend

The spot-breasted woodpecker is found in a wide variety of habitats such as rainforests, mangroves and swamp edges among others throughout Amazonia, the Guianas, Venezuela and Northern Colombia.

Hi Everyone, What’s Cooking is a series in which I address questions you may have about food and cooking but may be too shy to ask.

When we think of weddings in 2018, we hardly ever think of the groom and much less the guests.

The basketball comedy Uncle Drew rests on the relationship between Lil Rey’s slightly overbearing coach, Dax, and the aging former streetball star, the eponymous Uncle Drew (played by current basketball star Kyrie Irving in heavy prosthetic makeup).

Adventure on the Linden/Soesdyke High-way is a mixed community with a large percentage of Amerindians.

In a social situation recently, I heard one of our senior citizens relate an incident early in her life where she gained, as she described it, “a lesson I never forgot.” 

During the lifetimes of Cheddi Jagan and Janet Jagan, the PPP twice, unanimously, decided to support a two-term presidential limit.

The title I gave to my fourth collection of poems is Between Silence and Silence. 

I recently visited the women’s psychiatric ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital and I felt that were it not for the Grace of God I could have become mentally ill from just the appearance of the area and the depressing conditions under which its two patients were housed.

President Trump and his ultra-rich government have crudely appropriated some old ideas from progressive development economists.

Your overall health follows cycles and you can take control of those cycles.

Acclaimed story-teller and poet Paul Keens-Douglas recently returned to Guyana for a comedy show after several years.

Introduction: Top Ten Last week’s column wrapped-up my evaluation of Open Oil’s financial modeling of Guyana’s 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with the local ExxonMobil subsidiary and its partners.

The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 0.45 percent during the fourth period of trading in June, 2018. 

Syngonium Podophyllum commonly called Arrowhead Vine and Butterfly Plant originated in Mexico and America and has adapted well in the Caribbean.

India’s child chess player, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, became the world’s second youngest Grandmaster in the history of the ancient game at the age of 12 years, 10 months and 14 days on June 24, in Italy.

The swallow-winged puffbird is a very distinctive and fairly common bird, most often encountered perched high on a dead branch along a riverbank, or on a telephone wire, and is typically observed in pairs, which are sometimes found in direct proximity to the neighbouring pair.

Hi Everyone, Last week, in this 2-part series on eating a pig’s head, we looked at jowl bacon – bacon made from the cheeks of a pig.

I can understand why people at times do not see discussing the sartorial choices of others as important; why it comes off as frivolous and shallow.

The last few minutes of “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” is a single scene that takes place a year after the rest of the film.