Stabroek Weekend

Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums are also commonly called Mums. The blooms come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and in a range of colours; the most popular colours are yellow, white, purple, and red.

Mangrove Cuckoo (Coccyzus minor) in Abary, Mahaica-Berbice (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)
Mangrove Cuckoo (Coccyzus minor) in Abary, Mahaica-Berbice (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Mangrove Cuckoo

The Mangrove cuckoo (Coccyzus minor) is a species of cuckoo that is native to the Neotropics.

The CCJ under attack – ‘politicians in robes’

The total electoral devastation of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) and the political exit door shown to former Prime Minister, Freundel Stuart, by the Barbados electorate at the elections last Thursday, is an apt and decisive answer to the vicious attack Stuart made on the Caribbean Court of Justice earlier in the week, when referring to the judges derogatorily as ‘politicians in robes.’

We come here to shine

My Artist in Residence involvement with the University of Guyana has produced some very fulfilling exchanges, some of which I had expected but there were some surprises which I’ve mentioned before.

The end of the world

This is an easy column to write. A previous column I wrote about the great Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz, drew a lovely response from readers who told me by notes, emails, even phone calls, overseas and at home, that they enjoyed this poet very much.

Yellow-hooded Blackbird

The Yellow-hooded Blackbird (Chrysomus icterocephalus) is locally common in freshwater marshes and wet grasslands along the Amazon River and some tributaries, and in low-lying regions and valleys from Colombia to northern Brazil.

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