Stabroek Weekend

Symbolic milestone “The problem is that our thinking, our attitudes, and consequently our decision-making have not caught up with the reality of things.”

The Caribbean is not short of ideas. Week after week, meetings take place; reports are published; regional initiatives are announced; speeches are made, columns written, and papers presented.

Just as the year was ending, a popular phrase used as often jocularly as insultingly, has become very contentious.

In tandem with the World Youth Championships in the United Arab Emirates, two Swiss tournaments were held: one for players FIDE rated 2000 and less, and one open to all.

Some weeks ago I enquired what had been gained by small and vulnerable countries like ours in the recently concluded World Trade Organisation deal.

It  follows that people are very idiosyncratic about what they consider essential things in their life; what’s essential to one could well be meaningless to another. 

Last week we offered an analysis of Christmas as a religious festival, observing that it has also evolved as many other types and that its contemporary existence as a commercial and popular festival overwhelmingly dominates the religious function.

Continued from last week Well, let’s return to the more mundane matters pertaining to pet care. 

By Naomi Wolf  NEW YORK – When Mary Barra was named CEO of General Motors (GM) in early December – the first woman to head a major American automaker – it seemed to many to be a milestone in women’s struggle for equal rights and opportunities.

With the heavy rainfall we are experiencing lawns and plants are showing signs of distress.

Sunday Cartoons

Hi Everyone,  One of the things about communicating is knowing when to say what, to whom, and how to say it.

 Story by Jeanna Pearson with photos by Arian Browne   Approximately eight miles from Georgetown poverty-stricken Indian families are crammed into small dilapidated shacks along a dam near the banks of the Chateau Margot seawall.

Introduction   This is my final column for 2013 and also the last in the series on the risks of money-laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation.

Who can doubt that in Guyana in 2014 clenched fists of the past must be opened so that hands can reach out across embattled ground for the good of the nation.

The struggle of the working class and the organised activity of the trade union movement have substantially determined the course of Guyana’s history.

Continued The week before last we spoke of skin infections of the young pup. 

Christmas is a religious festival.  Although it now falls under several other types, it is the most important calendar celebration for Christians. 

Sometimes you’re sailing along, minding your own business, and an idea will land on you, totally unsolicited, that is so startling in its acuity it almost makes you jump. 

As we approach the New Year the Sunday Stabroek caught up with some of the entertainers who from time to time give Guyanese  a ‘bellyful of laughs’ and asked them about their New Year wishes.