Stabroek Weekend

Guyanese have long known that Haiti had been the poorest country in the Caribbean.

“For me I don’t think school should reopen because it is not safe with COVID-19.

Enslaved Africans had been emancipated for less than two years when Richard Schomburgk, a Prussian scientist, arrived in hot and humid equatorial British Guiana on the evening of Friday, January 21, 1840.

Introduction As observed last week, eight of the world’s top ten producers of barrels of oil per day are National Oil Companies, NOCs.

(University of South Florida) – All it takes is three consecutive nights of sleep loss to cause your mental and physical well-being to greatly deteriorate.

(Duke-NUS Medical School) – The impact of loneliness in old age on life and health expectancy has been categorically quantified for the first time in a new study by scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School (Singapore), Nihon University (Tokyo, Japan) and their collaborators, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

The world is endlessly fascinating, countlessly full of interesting people. Once at a party long ago I met a visitor to Guyana who turned out to be an expert on grass-hoppers.

While exercising may be the ‘easy’ part, staying on top of your nutrition may pose more of a challenge when it comes to fat loss.

Are the “Conjuring” movies the most intriguing franchise of this century?

My interest in food has never been about the pleasures of eating, rather, it’s about many of the things associated with food – origin, history, politics, economics, identity, community, culture, communication, engagement, techniques etc.

I grew up envious of girls who had periods that lasted three days or less.

Editor’s note: This is the first entry in a series, “Sweet Drink: A Preliminary Exploration of the Social History of Nonalcoholic Carbonated Beverages in Guyana (1870–2020),” based on Professor Vibert Cambridge’s research. 

Guyanese consume about 1.4 litres per person a day of carbonated soft drinks, or ‘sweet drinks,’ which enabled the local industry to contribute US$668 million to the Guyanese economy between 2008 and 2018, according to United States-based Guyanese Dr Vibert Cambridge.

Dr Terrence Isaacs is currently completing his residency in the United Kingdom to become a consultant in medical psycho-therapy.

Although he may not have known it at the time, when Bonaventure Fredericks was hired as the office assistant for the Region Eight (Potaro/Siparuni) Regional Democratic Council (RDC) office in 1981, he was getting a practical education that would eventually land him in the seat of the Regional Chairman some 34 years later.

Article 13 of the Guyana Constitution was invoked by Minister Gail Teixeira during last week in response to the call of US Congressmen Albio SIres and Hank Johnson for more political inclusion in Guyana and for the country’s wealth to benefit all of its citizens.

The previous column explored the question of money ‘printing’ and inflation.

Introduction As a social scientist, I have observed, in recent years the unprecedented rise at a global existential level of some of the scariest social phenomena I have ever encountered.

Let me give my memories of one weekend at Cambridge University when I met two of the most remarkable men of the age, one after another.

Looking back on the story of the emergence of my Tradewinds band in Caribbean music, it is interesting that I did not have any burning desire to be a professional musician when I migrated from Guyana to Toronto, Canada, in the early 1950s.