Category: Features

‘Languaging’ at 3000 feet above sea level By Petamber Persaud Friday, December 20, 2019, Georgetown, Guyana, six feet below sea level: first oil and it made headlines, locally and afar. Friday, December 20, 2019, Paramakatoi, Guyana, 3,000 feet above sea level: also flowing at a blistering pace was a debate on indigenous languages conducted totally in Patamona. This is another first for Guyana yet it did not make the news. It did not make the news but it did move those who witnessed the debate. For those who witnessed the…

Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is an approach to help the people who manage agricultural systems respond effectively to climate change. The CSA approach pursues the triple objectives of sustainably increasing productivity and incomes, adapting to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions where possible. This does not imply that every practice applied in every location should produce “triple wins”. Rather the CSA approach seeks to reduce trade-offs and promote synergies by taking these objectives into consideration to inform decisions from the local to the global scales and over short and long…

 By Mohanlall Suelall Someone once said that farming is a family business and that could not have been truer. For the past decades, Kooldeep ‘Uncle John’ Raghoobar has been supported by his family as he tills, irrigates, sows and reaps the products of his hard labour. The 62-year-old Essequibo Coast native has been in love with farming for his entire life. He knew that farming was what he wanted to do but his farming life has not been without challenges. Uncle John as he is popularly known to residents said…

By Utamu Belle At 46- years old, Lindener Myrtle Gentle has created employment for herself by developing her farmland at West, Watooka, Mackenzie. Myrtle, who is a mother of 4 decided to take the farming initiative seriously about 5 years ago as she started planting crops on her approximately 5 acres of land to which she occupies approximately 4 acres. T he remaining acre, she is in the process of developing. The proud farmer recently took the Sunday Times Magazine on a tour of her farmland which is well developed…

By Lakhram Bhagirat One of the best feelings of accomplishment is being able to provide for yourself and the people in your care and one of the best ways to do that is by being able to feed them. Food is the foundation of all things good. Around food is where we have had many memories and to put it quite frankly, everybody remembers the good plate of food that they have had. In today’s world where we all live in the fast lane, choosing the right food for yourself…

Preserving our literary heritage by Petamber Persaud The number of books published during 2019 was not as large as in 2018 but this does not take away from the quality of the works published. Below are some books crossing my desk during 2019*. ‘We Mark Your Memory: Writings from the Descendants of Indenture’ ‘We Mark Your Memory: Writings from the Descendants of Indenture’ edited by David Dabydeen, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, and Tina K. Ramnarine was launched in Georgetown on Tuesday, May 7, 2019. This book was published to mark…