Words extracted from Stabroek News
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- 2017 June 14, Tarron Khemraj, “The economic discontents of the masses”, in Stabroek News[4]:add
- These can be found under the headings (i) “Historical policy choices and Guysuco’s present-day financial predicament,” (parts 1 and 2) (ii) “Saving Guysuco,” (iii) “Sugarcane and antidesma versus sugar,” (iv) “Three constraints,” and (v) “The viability of the sugar industry”.
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- 2021 January 14, “Models for a better Guyana are out there but do we want to change?”, in Stabroek News[5]:add
- How else does one explain the overtly racist characters and parties whom the majority of Guyanese choose to represent us? Our politicians are not a Massacooramaan that comes out of the blaka to torment innocent villagers at night.
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- 2018 December 9, Joanna Dhanraj, “Andy Ville”, in Stabroek News[7]:add
- Her yard is filled with plants which she and her husband planted together – red beans, green sorrel, pumpkin, ochro, cane, boulanger, squash, calaloo (chow rai bagee), thyme, watermelon, fever grass, coconuts, pineapple and buck cashew.
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- 2018 September 6, “Tribalism and tribal politics have led us to conclude highly unfavourable contracts with transnational corporations”, in Stabroek News[8]:add
- A recent IMF Staff Report says commercial production should commence in mid-2020, with a conservatively estimated output of 100,000 barrels/day (bpd) from Liza Phase I.
- 2020 March 29, “Projected 2020 oil revenue for Guyana slashed following global price crash”, in Stabroek News[9]:add
- In another shocking consecutive revision of our weekly estimates, our newest forecast for oil demand now projects a decrease of 4.9% for 2020, or 4.9 million barrels per day (bpd) year-on-year.
- 2018 June 3, “Inconsistencies in Rystad Energy report”, in Stabroek News[10]:add
- It was stated that Rystad is forecasting 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) in the next decade.
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- 2020 August 10, “Guyanese Cuisine Culture”, in Stabroek News[14]:add
- I can go on about Chef Delven’s delicious Gilbaka curry, smoked snapper shine rice, wild pig pepperpot, garlic pork, roast chicken, bunjal duck curry, fireside Metemgee, Married-man-pork drink, and Pastry Chef Malini’s triumphant cheese cakes – the sorrel and passion fruit, and the chocolate are my favorites.
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- 2019 October 13, “The Week-in-Review – October 6th to October 12th”, in Stabroek News[16]:add
- I am being given to understand that it is at a certain, just one or two of the cambios, that have caused this problem.
- 2017 May 17, Tarron Khemraj, “Making sense of the weak FX market: Caribbean nationals and FDIs”, in Stabroek News[17]:add
- In both 2015 and 2016 non-bank cambios accounted for just over 3% of purchases and the commercial banks accounted for the rest.
- 2021 January 6, “Financial Intelligence Unit had urged ‘high level’ probe in 2019 into gold trading”, in Stabroek News[18]:add
- The FIU report in the second half of 2019 had also urged that action be taken against illegal cambios.
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- 2017 December 20, “Street Warriors”, in Stabroek News[20]:add
- The qualifying rounds took place at several venues across the city, including the Burnham Court (a basketball court) opposite the Promenade Gardens, California Square (East Ruimveldt Community Centre), the National Cultural Centre tarmac (parking lot) and the factory yard, site of a former chowmein factory in Albouystown, or as the residents prefer, ‘All-Man-Town.’ The playing surface is always asphalt, not grass, not mud, not sand.
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- 2020 February 11, “Neighbours charged with murder of Cane Grove man”, in Stabroek News[23]:add
- And she deh cuss, cuss and we deh inside….me husband ah hear she.
- 2010 January 30, “I don’t like cricket (I really don’t)”, in Stabroek News[24]:add
- Girl is wheh you deh!
- 2018 December 14, “Fire destroys Overwinning house”, in Stabroek News[25]:add
- I peep from the stove deh and all the (electrical) points and so and I see the fire blazing in the room.
- 2017 June 25, Joanna Dhanraj, “Hoff Van Aurich”, in Stabroek News[26]:add
- If you see how some of them shrimps did long (showing twice the length of her palm); deh use to suh long you had to cut them in half.
- 2012 May 29, “Region Eight REO says infrastructural projects were agreed on last year”, in Stabroek News[27]:add
- Kawa Bridge every year millions gat to spend because every time somebody build it don’t stand up and when the rain fall too hard it floats away leaving a plank to walk on alone…the contractors in these parts know that no one will want to come till here to check on a bridge so they give it a lick and a promise and next year same story we deh pun,” he said.
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- 2020 September 6, “The world of Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber”, in Stabroek News[28]:add
- There, as the daughter of Mayor Antonio of Cockpit County, she lives a life of relative luxury as her personal nurse, the house eshu, and her robot minder take care of her and shield her as best as they can from her parents’ personal drama.
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- 2017 April 23, Joanna Dhanraj, “Wowetta”, in Stabroek News[30]:add
- The factory will be up and running once equipment arrives from Brazil and will benefit persons in the village and outside who want to sell their cassava which will be processed into cassava bread, cassareep and farine and sold in the village, in Lethem, Georgetown and other areas as well as Brazil.
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- 2020 March 8, Joanna Dhanraj, “Fear Not… now entering Sparta”, in Stabroek News[34]:add
- The people who use to live on the other side where the standpipe was at, use to guh and get water from there.
- 2019 December 15, Joanna Dhanraj, “Cane Grove”, in Stabroek News[35]:add
- Watch wah we children got to deal wid everyday dey guh to school.
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- 2017 March 20, “First Published March 20 1987”, in Stabroek News[46]:add
- De white man mek and dem a bruk.
- 2010 April 5, “Vehicle number plates and inclusive governance”, in Stabroek News[47]:add
- Hint to Baniba mek Quashiba tek notice’ – Old Guyanese proverb.
- 2017 March 25, “First published March 25, 1989”, in Stabroek News[48]:add
- I have heard old “country people” say, and I honestly believe that “you mek you own eyepass.” It is only you who determines the degree of respect or conversely, disrespect that is bestowed on you.
- 2020 March 8, Joanna Dhanraj, “Fear Not… now entering Sparta”, in Stabroek News[49]:add
- Me ah mek me tea and dinner.
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- 2010 January 1, “Linden taxi driver stabbed to death”, in Stabroek News[50]:add
- Eddie is a man does gat nuff friends driving in and out all the time at all hours so it was hard to tell that something had gone wrong at any given time,” one neighbour said.
- 2015 July 18, Dhanash Ramroop, “Flood draining but Albouystown, parts of East Coast still submerged”, in Stabroek News[51]:add
- I lose nuff, nuff buddy.
- 2019 January 15, Bebi Oosman, “Berbicians protest GWI over sudden rise in charges”, in Stabroek News[52]:add
- Me a one widower, me alone a live, me na use nuff water,” she added.
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- 2018 December 9, Joanna Dhanraj, “Andy Ville”, in Stabroek News[53]:add
- Her yard is filled with plants which she and her husband planted together – red beans, green sorrel, pumpkin, ochro, cane, boulanger, squash, calaloo (chow rai bagee), thyme, watermelon, fever grass, coconuts, pineapple and buck cashew.
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- 2020 November 15, Al Creighton, “Of poetry and time”, in Stabroek News[56]:add
- It is among the great festivals brought to the region by indentured immigrants from India, one that restores its original glory; rekindling its triumphant lights after landing on distant shores as if to defy the effects of a kala paani.
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- 2017 November 5, Joanna Dhanraj, “Goedverwagting”, in Stabroek News[57]:add
- Further in the village, Darcy Chung’s brother was putting a patwa in a small bucket of water.
- 2017 June 25, Joanna Dhanraj, “Hoff Van Aurich”, in Stabroek News[58]:add
- We use to put chicken bran [poultry feed] inside… Later when yuh go pull up yuh sipee and you pulling it up easy; all kind of fish inside: shrimp, patwa, houri, sunfish.
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- 2020 July 26, “A Strange Cookie in The Last Yellow Bus”, in Stabroek News[60]:add
- “Twenty-five dollars and fifty cents, corporal, and one of the five dollar bills got some phagwah red dye on it,” Calco blurted out after doing rapid calculations of fares spent deducted from the original sum he’d left home with.
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- 2013 December 15, “Illegal wild meat hunters rounded up near Iwokrama”, in Stabroek News[61]:add
- Approximately 13 labbas (some 170 lbs) and six powis (some 30lbs) were found in the freezer, which was confiscated.
- 2017 April 23, Joanna Dhanraj, “Wowetta”, in Stabroek News[62]:add
- Whenever Domingo and her husband go hunting, they take their dogs, which, she boasted, are experts in catching agouti, labba, deer, turtle and powis.
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- 2018 December 6, Indranie Deolall, “Kit, kin and “kinnah””, in Stabroek News[63]:add
- Some days not content with potting around in “putta putta” or soft mud, much like the small trench loving “cuirass,” we indulged in other catfish meals of hallowed “hassar” and the giant golden “gilbacker.” Later, heeding the ubiquitous warning of “all skin teeth nah laugh” we listened keenly as the gossiping adults “steupsed” in unison about the quiet, hapless villager whose wife had just given birth to another baby which the entire community, including him, knew was not his.
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- 2015 November 1, “PP ministers spent TT$250m on travel”, in Stabroek News[65]:add
- Among these are a new port in Port-of-Spain; converting the Beetham dump into an industrial estate; building a highway to Manzanilla, a road to Toco, and a new ferry port; converting the whole Waterfront area to housing, recreation and entertainment; a better road to Chaguanas; and a ringroad around Chaguanas.
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- 2020 February 11, “Neighbours charged with murder of Cane Grove man”, in Stabroek News[67]:add
- “…She seh that how them think me want them man…Me nah answer she, me lef she.
- 2012 October 30, “Bel Air heist accused threatened to kill everyone ‘starting with children’”, in Stabroek News[68]:add
- But you seh I hit you twice,” he replied.
- 2013 September 8, Mandy Thompson, “Bendorff”, in Stabroek News[69]:add
- She said the quietness fits into her lifestyle because she does not like “Too much a noise.” Williams added, “My friends would tell me, ‘Gal you nah come out from de bush,’ and me does seh ‘Hear me, me like me bush.
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- 2011 August 4, Cecilia McAlmont, “The African Village Movement”, in Stabroek News[74]:add
- On Monday, Emancipation day, I stood on a relative’s veranda in Hopetown watching a group of young and not so young people making their way home, through the rain, after a night of frolic at the annual ‘swari’.
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- 2020 August 10, “Guyanese Cuisine Culture”, in Stabroek News[79]:add
- Even in a small Georgetown yard, growing karela, tomatoes, ginger, moringa, plantains, bananas, callaloo, tulsie, teaseum, alongside marigold, lilies, crotons, cactuses and “jump up and kiss me” attracts humming and other birds, butterflies, bees and other life who are attracted and add even more beauty, interest and (ecological) health to the yard.
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- 2020 October 31, Cynthia Nelson, “Extraordinary Dhal”, in Stabroek News[80]:add
- There are of course other ingredients used to make the spiced oil that add different flavour notes to dhal; such ingredients are curry leaves, mustard seeds, cinnamon, cloves, tejpetta (Indian bay leaves) and dried chilli.
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- 2020 February 11, “Neighbours charged with murder of Cane Grove man”, in Stabroek News[81]:add
- And when them pull he now, them tek one wood, he and he wife and them lash he pun he foot.
- 2021 January 9, Ashma John, “A digital detox”, in Stabroek News[82]:add
- As Guyanese would say “ah tek on everything”.
- 2010 April 25, “Man stabs wife to death”, in Stabroek News[83]:add
- For Peters that was a “red flag… But it tek he two years to execute it,” she added.
- 2010 April 5, “Vehicle number plates and inclusive governance”, in Stabroek News[84]:add
- Hint to Baniba mek Quashiba tek notice’ – Old Guyanese proverb.
- 2017 March 20, “First Published March 20 1987”, in Stabroek News[85]:add
- How you can tek pride in your work anymore?
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- 2020 January 26, “Q&A: Meshach Andres Pierre”, in Stabroek News[88]:add
- I once attended a meeting and while speaking to a toshao he told me he had to sell some birds to make the money to come out to attend and have his voice heard.
- 2019 December 29, Joanna Dhanraj, “Princeville”, in Stabroek News[89]:add
- Princeville is considered a satellite of a larger community, called Campbelltown, and is under the leadership of the Campbelltown toshao.
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- 2019 October 13, “The Week-in-Review – October 6th to October 12th”, in Stabroek News[90]:add
- PPP in 15-point pitch to toshaos council conference: With the National Toshaos Council conference set to begin last Monday, the opposition PPP on Sunday made a 15-point pitch for the improvement of Indigenous communities and pilloried the government for violating the constitution.
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- 2020 August 10, “Guyanese Cuisine Culture”, in Stabroek News[93]:add
- Even in a small Georgetown yard, growing karela, tomatoes, ginger, moringa, plantains, bananas, callaloo, tulsie, teaseum, alongside marigold, lilies, crotons, cactuses and “jump up and kiss me” attracts humming and other birds, butterflies, bees and other life who are attracted and add even more beauty, interest and (ecological) health to the yard.
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- 2019 November 29, Christopher Ram, “Local Content in two words – First Consideration”, in Stabroek News[102]:add
- For the purposes of preference for the Employment and Training of Guyanese, a “Guyanese Person” or “Guyanese Citizen” or “Guyanese” means a person or persons who have Guyanese Citizenship under the Constitution of the Co-Operative Republic of Guyana Act, Chapter 1:01, 1980, which includes inter alia a person born in Guyana (Article 43) and a person born outside Guyana who is a child of a parent with Guyanese Citizenship (Article 44).
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- 2012 August 19, “Vipers”, in Stabroek News[103]:add
- The known vipers of Guyana are the Carpet Labaria (Bothrops atrox) cousin to the Fer de Lance of Central America, the Guiana or Savannah Rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus), the Parrot Snake (Bothriopsis bilineata) and the dreaded Bushmaster (Lachesis muta).
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- 2012 August 9, “Neesa Gopaul murder accused to stand trial in High Court”, in Stabroek News[109]:add
- Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry today announced that a prima facie case has been made out against them, almost two years after they were first charged.
- 2014 August 26, “Transparency and accountability in the regulation of Guyana’s forestry sector (Part I)”, in Stabroek News[110]:add
- However, TIGI’s calls for an independent inquiry are not based on photographs alone – though these have raised a troubling prima facie case of illegal logging.
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- 2015 April 30, “Parties sign election Code of Conduct”, in Stabroek News[116]:add
- Surujbally called on the parties to abide by the code because “Gecom must not be placed in a position of trying to manage and produce credible elections in an environment of hostility and turbulence, calculated coarseness and unnecessary vulgarity and ad hominem attacks.
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- 2011 December 3, “The PPP has been transformed from a working class to a petit bourgeois party”, in Stabroek News[117]:add
- Dr Cheddi Jagan‘s PPP has been transformed from a pro-working class party that unites the working class, the peasants (farmers), the progressive intelligentia, the progressive business community and all working people into a petit bourgeois social democratic party.
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- 2017 March 14, “Date first Published March 14, 1990”, in Stabroek News[122]:add
- He described the McIntyre Report as a post mortem on the PNC administration, “but post mortem has never brought back the dead.
- 2021 January 6, Sharda Bacchus, “FBI aiding probe of West Berbice murders”, in Stabroek News[123]:add
- Our local pathologist has duly advised that he can be provided with the video of the entire post mortem examination and form his own opinion or conclusion,” Blanhum said.
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- 2018 September 13, “Boutique owner testifies to harrowing attack in City Mall”, in Stabroek News[126]:add
- She told the court that sometime after four that afternoon, George, whom she knew as a frequent Saturday visitor to the mall where she danced as a member of a then popular “passa passa” dance group, entered her boutique.
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- 2020 December 21, “A section of Jamaica’s Cockpit Country hangs in the balance”, in Stabroek News[128]:add
- We do not intend to make an a priori decision before this review, but there may have to be further discussions with Noranda and their EIA consultant, and possibly at the policy level,” he said.
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- 2018 July 15, David Jessop, “Finding ways to reimagine CARICOM”, in Stabroek News[132]:add
- This is not to lessen the significance of the role played by CARICOM’s pro tempore Chair, Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, in using the Golding report to create awareness of the urgency of addressing the CSME’s failings and the detail of what needs to be done.
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- 2012 September 16, “White-tailed Deer”, in Stabroek News[136]:add
- Odocoileus virginianus, locally known as White-tailed or Savannah Deer, has a large range from southern Canada to northern South America; obviously they can survive in a wide variety of habitats including forest, grasslands, savannah, farming and urban areas.
- 2012 October 28, “Great Horned Owl”, in Stabroek News[137]:add
- The Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) is a large, bulky, barrel-shaped owl.
- 2014 August 3, “Great Horned Owl”, in Stabroek News[138]:add
- The Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) is the most widely distributed owl in the Americas; it ranges from Northern Canada to South America.