Stabroek Weekend

LUCAS STOCK INDEXThe Lucas Stock Index (LSI) declined 1.16 percent during the third trading period of October 2015.  The stocks of five companies were traded with 296,103 shares changing hands.  There was one Climber and two Tumblers.  The stocks of Demerara Tobacco Company (DTC) rose 0.49 percent on the sale of 1,103 shares.  The stocks of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) fell 7.69 percent on the sale of 20,250 shares while the stocks of Republic Bank Limited (RBL) fell 0.87 percent on the sale of 9,294 shares.  In the meanwhile, the stocks of Banks DIH (DIH) and Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry remained unchanged on the sale of 265,296 and 160 shares respectively.
LUCAS STOCK INDEXThe Lucas Stock Index (LSI) declined 1.16 percent during the third trading period of October 2015. The stocks of five companies were traded with 296,103 shares changing hands. There was one Climber and two Tumblers. The stocks of Demerara Tobacco Company (DTC) rose 0.49 percent on the sale of 1,103 shares. The stocks of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) fell 7.69 percent on the sale of 20,250 shares while the stocks of Republic Bank Limited (RBL) fell 0.87 percent on the sale of 9,294 shares. In the meanwhile, the stocks of Banks DIH (DIH) and Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry remained unchanged on the sale of 265,296 and 160 shares respectively.

That ministerial salary increase

Public Outcry Ever since it was discovered that the new administration had increased the salaries of its ministers and parliamentarians, there has been a public outcry and groundswell of criticism for taking the action.

George Stephen Camacho

George Stephen Camacho: a tribute

By Ronald Austin   Bonhomous, witty, intelligent George Stephen Camacho, who died shortly before his 70th birthday, was a Guyanese test cricketer and administrator who distinguished himself in the latter area of activity.

Roast Marrow Bones with Toast (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

The Other Parts

Hi Everyone,  Ewww… Gross! Yuck! These sounds plus expressions of scorn and disgust are usually the reaction of many people when they are offered the other parts of meat, poultry or seafood.

 A view of the village

Rosetta

Down in Canal Number Two Polder, West Bank Demerara sits a ‘little rose’ whose towering coconut trees can be spotted a distance away.

Stimulating the economy

Early concerns The early concerns that the Guyana economy has slowed down and that the growth for 2015 would at best be sluggish remain valid even after a round of salary increases.

Who is responsible?

Recent returnees to the homeland may not know this, but longtime dwellers who have endured through successive Guyanese governments will tell you that finding the person responsible for a particular aspect in the various departments set up to serve us is an almost impossible task.

Dance Season 36 – well ‘E-majin-ed’

The National Dance Company of Guyana, in the performance of ‘E-Majin,’ for Dance Season 36, directed and choreographed by Vivienne Daniel, celebrated not only a product of 36 years of dance in Guyana, but demonstrated dance as a work of the imagination.

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