Stabroek Weekend

Farm on the East Bank Demerara is nothing like its name, unless you count the little kitchen gardens here and there.

We should beware the over-mighty state. A state that gathers all powers to itself drains initiative away from where it does most good ‒ at the local level, at the level of the small group, the family, the individual.

Introduction Thus far, my reflections on Guyana’s economic statistics have centred on its national accounts, and in particular the GDP.

The absurdities are everywhere, conspiring to tax your brain when it needs a break.

On the 26th of May 2015, President David Granger said “Our diplomats must open more markets”.

Tabeluia serratifolia commonly called Yellow Poui is a member of the Bignoniaceae family and is native to Central and South America.

I made this last week and it was so good that I am definitely making it as a side dish for one of the holiday meals.

The annual National Drama Festival (NDF) of Guyana is in progress at the National Cultural Centre, running every night at 7 o’clock until November 28.

The European Team Chess Championships remain the world’s third most pre-eminent team tournament.

In terms of a definition, I think the one most easily understood would reflect an inflammatory condition of the mouth which usually produces small vesicles or abscesses.

 Sunday Cartoon

Hi Everyone, With the Christmas holidays just weeks away, the shopping craze has begun.

Christmas is almost here. It is the time of year that I believe consumers spend the most willingly, without feeling too guilty about it, or at least I do.

Covent Garden on the East Bank Demerara is a laid back community with an average population of 300.

Resource gap The Bank of Guyana has been reporting for some time now on what it refers to as the resource gap.

I grew up in Guyana hearing that our capital was labelled ‘The Garden City of the Caribbean’, but it was something that never engaged me.

In geopolitics it is the long game that matters. It is therefore not surprising that Guyana’s President, David Granger, and Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro met separately in Riyadh with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Bin Abdulaziz in Al Saud when they attended recently the fourth summit of Arab and South American Countries.

For God’s sake, what is going on? Remember: A young Pakistani girl is shot in the head for trying to educate herself and others like her.

Last week we dealt with the symptoms of ailments in the mouth.

The recent three-day general strike in the sugar industry, called by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), protesting the delay by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) in initiating wage talks, signals a return to militancy of Guyana’s largest and most influential trade union.