Stabroek Weekend

Edgar Mittelholzer (1909-1965) is a major Guyanese writer.  Not only is he one of the most recognized Guyanese writers, but the nation accords him a most distinguished place in its literature and heritage. 

Continued Up until now the discussion has centered on infertility of the bitch based on hormonal, metabolic, management related, genetic or anatomic (congenital or acquired) disorders/ deficiencies. 

When most people think of the rainforest, they picture large spotted cats like the jaguar, massive snakes like the anaconda, huge spiders like the goliath bird-eater and toothy predators like the black caiman.

The Beaucarnea recurvata comes from the Liliaceae family, and is commonly called the Ponytail or Bottle palm.

If you have any photographs dating from before 1966, which you would like to see published in this column, please contact Ms Allison Bowlin on 225-7473 or 227-4080 to make arrangements for you to bring them in.

Hi Everyone, This week we conclude the 2-part series on roast chicken.

The Flamboyant tree or Royal poinciana (Delonix regia) belongs to the Leguminasae family

 Story and photos by Cathy Richards Back in the 1970s, the Wisroc Housing Scheme was the showpiece of Linden with its hundreds of three-bedroom claybrick houses, most of them built by self-help.

Introduction Recently, while examining the archival material in my possession on GuySuCo, I came across three documents which I believe readers would find instructive at this stage of my consideration of the sugar industry.

Introduction Dr Roger Luncheon, Chairman of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) and chief spokesperson for the Government is denying the reality of the parlous state of the NIS.

It is a part of human nature here and elsewhere that we sometimes deal with contentious issues by adopting a position of delusion, so as not to deal with the unpleasantly real factors involved. 

The Little Tinamou (Crypturellus soui) is a frumpy looking ground-dwelling, bird that can be found in tropical rainforests throughout the tropics.

Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, whose marvellous collection of essays The Redress of Poetry I like to re-read, writes that WH Auden’s elegy for Yeats was “a rallying cry that celebrates poetry for being on the side of life, and continuity of effort, and enlargement of the spirit.”

Last week we mentioned that the main cause of infertility in the bitch is an infection in the womb (uterus) or in some other area of the reproductive tract. 

While many of us were focused on the elections in Mexico, Venezuela and the United States in recent months, a dangerous trend has gone almost unnoticed in the region — the slow death of the region’s human rights system.

Guyana’s second National Drama Festival (NDF) was held in September-October 2012 at the National Cultural Centre in Georgetown and Lichas Hall, Linden.

By R M Austin (Caribbean Challenges: Sir Shridath Ramphal’s Collected Counsel (Hansib 2012.

Hi Everyone, This week we begin a 2-part series on roast chicken.

Story by Mandy Thompson with photos by Arian Browne Situated along the busy West Bank Demerara road is the quiet community of Bagotville, which is cooled by a steady breeze blowing from across the canal separating the village from its neighbour, La Grange. 

One man is running a company with the help of three old family retainers, two others who haven’t had a new idea in a couple of generations, and a whole raft of school drop-outs.