Stabroek Weekend

Elizabeth Drew
Elizabeth Drew

America’s why not election

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world Elizabeth Drew is the author, most recently, of Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon’s Downfall.

Prime Minister of The Bahamas Perry Christie (Jamaica Observer photo)
Prime Minister of The Bahamas Perry Christie (Jamaica Observer photo)

Tourism should become front and centre in Caribbean thinking about future growth

When Caricom Heads of Government met in Barbados at the start of the month, their proceedings were dominated by a discussion of Venezuela’s unjustified claim to much of Guyana’s coastline and most of its exclusive economic zone, and to the marine jurisdictions of a number of other Caribbean member states.

Joseph Harmon with a few
remaining coconuts from
a cluster he harvested

Relief

Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj Amid towering coconut and other palms and many other beautiful trees is a tiny village called Relief, nestled between villages also with odd names such as Support and Land of Canaan.

Al Jazeera jumps in

Coincidences can be an intriguing part of life. For the past two weeks, for example, I had been in a back-and-forth with a publisher, Desmond Roberts, of the Guyana Diaspora Times magazine, produced electronically in New York.

The PPP has lost its way

The selection of Dr Bharrat Jagdeo by the Central Committee of the PPP as its nominee for Opposition Leader seals that party’s fate in opposition for decades to come, unless the APNU+AFC coalition underperforms or unravels.

Retrogression
Gary Thomas
Mahogany
1975

Retrogression

Artists Stanley Greaves and Akima McPherson, in this their fourth Conversation, examine Gary Thomas’s sculpture, Retrogression.

The ear

General considerations Quite unlike the eye, which we have already established is not the dog’s most important organ, the ear is of great value.

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