Stabroek Weekend

Bitter party political animosity divides the nation and holds back united efforts to solve the multitude of problems which need our combined human resources. 

First decade With a low debt profile, working capital over $5 billion and in excess of $2 billion in cash, Banks DIH is nowhere close to being in trouble. 

Introduction Last week’s column provided a brief synopsis of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) international standard.

Shanique Myrie is a Jamaican national who was detained at the Grantley Adams Airport in Barbados upon arrival on March 14, 2011 and deported the following day to Jamaica.

Cassia Alphonso’s Black Cake Mix, won the award for Best Book of Poetry in the 2012 Guyana Prize for Literature, jointly with Ian McDonald’s The Comfort of All Things. 

We’re taking our time in the Caribbean writing our musical history. 

President Barack Obama’s state-of-the-world speech before the United Nations General Assembly recently did not mention any Latin American country, and virtually omitted the region as a whole.

Over the last two to three years Russian interest in the Caribbean has been growing, so that today Moscow’s diplomatic profile and its economic presence in a number of Caribbean nations is now stronger than at any time since the end of the cold war.

Continued from last week Temperature As a puppy is born, his temperature is the same as that of his mother. 

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it.

The Davallia fern is commonly called the Rabbit foot fern, and it originates from the tropical Island of Fiji.

Hi Everyone, Sunday lunch is one of the most looked-forward to meals of the week.

By Al Creighton This is an edited version of three features which appeared in Sunday Stabroek on October 24, October 31 and November 7, 2010.

Many people do not get to watch a community grow up.

A few days ago the International Monetary Fund (IMF) hosted an economic growth forum in the Bahamas.

Marginal role Cooperatives, though useful, are not a noticeable tool in Guyana’s economic development. 

Political defections in Guyana have a long and ignoble history. A rare exception was that of Henry Jeffrey towards the PPP, although he never joined that party.

Sometimes, in the everyday course of life, an interaction comes along, out of the blue, that is unusual and startling and revealing all at the same time.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s angry denunciation of US electronic spying at the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week was applauded by most in the room, but her proposal to regulate the Internet should make all of us very nervous.

Seamus Heaney, great Irish poet and Nobel Laureate, died last month aged 74.