Stabroek Weekend

“What you buying girlie? A gat celery, sweet peppa, bora all wah you want, a gat hay today.

Today’s column wraps up the discussion started last week on the general economic characteristics of oil refineries.

Complex makeup Many Guyanese have heard the adage “Show me your company and I’ll tell you who you are”. 

Teimour Radjabov, a chess grandmaster from Azerbaijan who is ranked Number 32 in the world, placed first in the recent FIDE Grand Prix in Geneva.

For The D May I learn the shape of that hurt which captured you nightly into dead city, discovering through streets steep with the sufferer’s beat;

Owing to the heavy rainfall lots of pests and fungi are showing up.

Two Sundays ago, In Good Taste featured Hummus – a Middle Eastern chickpea spread/dip – topped with Tomato Chutney.

Opal-rumped Tanagers (Tangara velia) are widely distributed, although uncommon, throughout the forests of Amazonia and the Atlantic forests of eastern Brazil.

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.

For as long as I can remember, I have suffered terribly from acne.

Sofia Coppola’s new film, The Beguiled, begins like a fairy tale.

Nooitgedacht is a village on Wakenaam Island running parallel to Arthurville, which was featured last week.

British-American poet W H Auden was talking about the masters of art, the great painters and their study of suffering and the human condition.

The adult little cuckoo is mainly chestnut brown, with a greyish lower belly, browner tail and white tips to the tail feathers.

Sometimes in the middle writing column A, I will suddenly be caught by a thought for column B (it happens the same way in writing songs) so that although I admit some weeks it’s a close call, in fact one never runs out of topics. 

Exercising is important in life for health of mind and body, but there are also other things that are just as equally if not even more important.

Winston Churchill, exasperated by opposition politicians constantly questioning his policies and his own credentials and frustrated by having to consult and compromise on measures which in his judgement were straightforward and ripe for introduction without hesitation, once exploded: “Democracy is the worst kind of government!”

 The game (chess) has always been thought of as a relatively pure measure of intellect, and the presence of a Soviet atop the world rankings signalled to the empire’s subjects, no matter how poor and starving they may have been, that they possessed some sort of superiority – Jack Dickey, in an article titled “Can Garry Kasparov stay a move ahead of Vladimir Putin?”

“The pain never goes away,” she said passionately, gesticulating as she spoke.

Alarm In more recent times, there has been much discussion and expression of alarm about Guyana’s manufacturing sector.