Stabroek Weekend

Hi Everyone, I have often been asked what it means to adapt a recipe.

I recently met up with a fellow Guyanese who is also based in Europe.

With photos by Keno George   It has only been a few days since schools closed for the August holidays, but the children of Buxton, East Coast Demerara have already assumed their rightful places in the niches of their community.

Introduction My recent columns have argued that, despite a relatively rich forest resource endowment, and relatedly a very high standing in the world of forests, Guyana has had historically one of the world’s lowest deforestation rates.

Jeremy Corbyn is probably the first person to have won the leadership of the British Labour Party on a campaign that advanced a left agenda.

Age has slowed me down but at least no day goes by without reading bringing me the fascinating and penetrating insights of other minds.

Conclusion   Not easy Last week we identified the money supply, the credit provided by the private sector lending institutions and the interest rates associated with both savings and loans. 

Although the definition is quite loose, the expression millennial is usually used to mean those who were born between 1980 and the mid-2000s.

In a recent column I made a passing reference to a comment from Stabroek News writer Alan Fenty who had posed the question in his column whether “one could be Guyanese – spiritually and culturally – without being Indian, African, European or Chinese?”

For years, Wintress White was a victim of domestic violence. But even though her husband beat her at his every whim and fancy and she would leave him on her own or when he chased her she kept returning as she puts it “for love.”

In this week’s edition of In Search Of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour looks at another season in which an elite batsman experiences a state of Nirvana.

There are no shortcuts to proper maintenance of ornamental plants in a garden.

Red-bellied Macaws are mainly green with a red belly patch and blue forewings and head. 

The market here (in Barbados) is rife with orange-flesh sweet potatoes.

Six of the finest chess players on the planet, led by world champion Magnus Carlsen, are doing battle in the Masters Final in Bilbao, Spain.

Whilst guys are getting shredded or toned to show off our chests, arms and abs for the ‘summer,’ ladies are mostly concerned with their midsection, legs and their butts.

VERSE 27:   Light, oh where is the light? Kindle it with the burning fire of desire!

Hi Everyone, For the past few months I have been on a flat bread baking-bender.

Guyana is one bizarre place filled with much hypocrisy. Sometimes it is not until you remove yourself from an environment that you begin to recognize some of the foolishness you once freely entertained.

Story and photos by Bebi Oosman Number 35/Macedonia is located on the Corentyne in the ancient county of Berbice.