Stabroek Weekend

Nostalgia 16 In F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, one of the pastimes of the indulgent rich was prolonged conversation on “The Best of Everything and Anything.”

Dr Cen Jones, who has died aged 85, was an expert in tropical medicine whose initiatives in following up on the pioneering work of Dr Giglioli, virtually eradicated malaria in British Guiana (now Guyana).

Why does my eye jump or twitch? Sometimes part of your eyelid may twitch for several minutes or hours.

Poetry International Rotterdam is an organisation in the Netherlands that exists for the promotion and propagation of poetry on a full-time basis.

Of the twenty-one games that were played, Spassky won one other, the 11th.,

Sunday Stabroek, August 6, 2006: ‘Not govt’s intention to have food prices increase because of VAT – Jagdeo.’

The cervix is part of a woman’s reproductive system. It is the lower, narrow part of the uterus.

Continued from last week So, now back to the wretched tapeworm.

There have been a handful of men who have made a deep and unforgettable impression on me: my father, first and always; Jock Campbell, Chairman of Bookers in the 1950s and ’60s; Martin Carter, whose poetry time as it passes burnishes to a yet brighter gleam.

Introduction This is the first of a series on forestry policies and current practices in Guyana.

St Lucia’s new Minister of Tourism and Aviation, Allen Chastenet, has a refreshingly different perspective on government.

The simplest way to raise trees and shrubs is from cuttings.

Pain is a universal human experience. It is an unpleasant sensory experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.

Tapeworms, though not as lethal as hookworms can be equally debilitating in the long run.

One of the greatest pleasures I have is talking about plants.

When my daughter began nursery school about six years ago, she came from school one day so anxious to relate what had occurred, the words were tripping over each other.

My wife is trying to get me to stop smoking and she says it can damage my eyes.

Introduction Last year this publication ran a story regarding a potential reform being considered by the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) to replace the current pay as you go system with a system whereby benefits are set with reference to the amount of contributions paid into the scheme (‘NIS eyes contribution-based pensions proposal as part of reform,’ Sunday Stabroek, November 5, 2006).

Listening to Barbados Deputy Prime Minister Mia Mottley, speak in Aruba one could not but have sympathy with her and the difficult hand that she has been given to play over Caricom’s new visa regime.

There is no connection between sexual mores and job performance. Many of the greatest leaders in history were unbridled lechers.