Stabroek Weekend

I consider myself reasonably well read and passably well-informed. I try to keep up with what is going on.

As we anticipated in a recent column, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have just released pretty grim economic forecasts for Latin America in 2015.

Four weeks ago, this column urged the Caribbean to begin to think the unthinkable.

(Continued) You remember that last week we began looking at quantifiable and measurable criteria that would assist the caring pet owner in making a well-considered decision on the question of putting the beloved pet to sleep.

At the World Youth Chess Championships held in Durban, South Africa, the strength of India’s player-development programme was thrust into the forefront as the once obscure chess nation won two gold, two silver and two bronze medals.

Chrysalidocarpus lutescens commonly called Areca palm, Golden palm or Butterfly palm originates from Madagascar where sadly it is now endangered and very rare.

Hi Everyone,  Making bread with potatoes is nothing new. People have been making potato breads for decades and maybe even longer.

If you do not read poetry you miss much. You miss star showers around your head and arrows near your heart.

The death penalty has not been carried out in Guyana since 1997.

Inequality and poverty are independent though symbiotically related forces driving Guyana’s political economy.

If opposition candidate Aecio Neves wins Brazil’s October 26 runoff election — a possibility that virtually no pollster is ruling out — South America’s biggest country would “de-politicize” its foreign policy and end 12 years of preferential ties with Venezuela, Argentina and other leftist governments, top aides to Neves say.

The first thing to be said about the ebola crisis is that the region should be very proud that among the first to fully understand the seriousness of the threat and respond has been a Caribbean nation: Cuba.

Palms having adapted well hundreds of years ago to the tropics and the Caribbean are now very common in local landscaping.

Magnus Carlsen, the 23-year-old Norwegian grandmaster and World Chess Champion who has demonstrated an extraordinary power over the finest chess players on the planet, has launched a chess playing app that allows players all around the world to challenge him.

The Republic of Guyana’s annual National Drama Festival (NDF) will take to the stage of the National Cultural Centre for the fourth time starting this Tuesday and running from October 14-22.

Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society (late 19th century)

  Making a stew out of the many cuts of beef that lend themselves to long, low, slow cooking is one of the most delicious things to eat.

(Continued from last week) Last week, I advised that you involve your veterinarian in that debate as to whether to put the pet to sleep permanently, or to try to keep it alive as long as possible, in spite of the agony being experienced by all.

A Spotted Puffbird (Bucco tamatia) photographed at 3Vs in Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke The Spotted Puffbird is often found near forest edges.

The Cricket Club, Bourda in its heyday (nd)