Stabroek Weekend

It often happens when I get engaged with Tradewinds fans that I end up relating little episodes from my life with the band.

Early news The early news that has emerged from the new administration about the financial condition of Guyana is not good and one fears that it is likely to worsen as the stories about the condition of different parts of the economy unfold.

Hi Everyone, You know I like pepper right? Really hot pepper!

It’s impossible to get dressed and not think of what other people may think of your outfit, especially if you happen to be a fashion conscious person.

Established on a portion of the Ordnance Fortlands on the right bank of the Canje Creek in East Canje, Berbice, Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme is said to be sixteen years old.

Political economy fragility Today’s column elaborates on organizational elements, briefly portrayed last week, which are needed for establishing Guyana’s stolen public assets recovery initiative.

Among the many items on the varied ‘to do’ list for Guyana’s new government, the problem of falling standards in our society is being raised frequently by social commentators, and in the very early days following the election President Granger has raised this matter, both specifically and by alluding to it, in several of his speeches.

(Part 1) Equally worrisome The first part of this article considered what oil would mean for the production structure of Guyana.

The recent wave of lethal crime will have heightened the sense of life’s fragility in all of us.

The end of the Jagan leadership of the PPP terminated the era of real, as opposed to formal, internal democracy.

For a woman who nine years ago had life as she knew it destroyed, 33-year-old Jo-Ann Lynch is a pillar of strength and perseverance but justice continues to elude in her quest to ensure that the woman whose action changed her life forever, faces the consequences.

Earlier this year, Owen Arthur, the former Prime Minister of Barbados, described the malaise that now affects much of the anglophone Caribbean.

One day as I sat enjoying a small bowl of Lucian-style (St Lucia) fig (green banana) salad, I began to wonder how salt fish (a key ingredient in Lucian fig salad) would taste in a regular potato salad.

In spite of the many debates that there have always been about it, there is generally fair consensus about what constitutes a national literature.

You may recall that we had described the retina as the innermost and light sensitive lining at the back of the eyeball.

Two Americans, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, blasted their way into the 2015 Candidates elimination chess tournament with an opportunity to oppose Magnus Carlsen for the world championship title.

This week’s decision by a federal appeals court to continue blocking President Barack Obama’s order to stop deportations of more than 4 million undocumented immigrants was almost universally seen as a major setback for the administration’s immigration policy.

Tabebuia pentaphylla commonly called Pink Poui is a member of the Bignoniaceae family and originated in South America.

Hi Everyone, All right, brace yourself, today I am going to ask you to do something that may go against a practice you have been doing all your life, and one that you would have seen done by parents and grandparents long before you ever started cooking.

We have become fixated with using the word “summer” for the months July and August and having adapted the season terminology, we also take everything that comes with it.