Stabroek Weekend

[Gabrielle Mohamed, Is You Madness, Nah Me Own: A Short Collection of Creole Poetry, Georgetown: Gabrielle Mohamed, 2019.

By Nikita Blair May is a month brimming with themes for Guyana.

Zack Snyder’s enthusiasm has always been his most distinctive characteristic as a filmmaker.

Sheik Sadeek died at the end of January 1986 in the U.S.A.

Electoral reform ought to be one of the core institutional reforms needed for Guyana to evolve into a modern society without extreme inequality and circumvent political instability.

It took longer than expected for the challenge to the jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to materialise.

Introduction Today’s discussion addresses the notion of Dutch Disease. This is put forward in the 2021 National Budget as the most dangerous pitfall the Authorities will have to navigate as the country pursues economic growth and development with macroeconomic balance.

People often ask me about this column or that, or this song or that.

After announcing on social media and at the gym that I had taken my first shot of Sputnik V, one of the vaccines in the fight against COVID-19, I was asked several questions.

The Guyana Chess Federation’s (GCF) annual independence six-round classical tournament continues today from 10 am at the National Stadium, Providence.

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I am temporarily displaced for several days so I’m in ‘de countryside’ staying with friends.

When I was growing up, experience and personal growth were never the factors people considered before having children.

At one point in her childhood Crystal Lam and her family lived in a tent and later she became a teenage mother but she never allowed those challenges to prevent her from one day fulfilling her dream of having her own business.

Now 63, Deoram Timram was one of the pioneers who gave up the comfort of his home in the mid-1970s to create and nurture a new village that would support the Hauraruni International Missionary Training Centre at Hauraruni, found about a mile and a half off the Linden/Soesdyke Highway.

Faa’izah Hafeeza Mustafa’s desire to make a positive impact and her dream of practicing law to make that a reality, helped her to remain resolute amidst many challenges, and though it took much perseverance, she was recently admitted to the bar by Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George. 

In my time living abroad, mostly in Toronto, Tradewinds gigs took me all over North America and to Mother England, and, of course, all over the Caribbean. 

Today’s column explores the proposed gas-to-shore project. Off the bat, I must declare that converting the present heavy fuel power plants to natural gas makes sense.

Let me write now as the spirit moves me, and as memories crowd the mind, about a good man through and through, and a citizen of incomparable quality.

Introduction – Core Objectives As modern national budgets tend to do, Guyana’s 2021 Budget identifies upfront six core objectives, which it sets about to achieve.