Stabroek Weekend

Breaking down consent: Part 1

I thought about using today’s column to speak about the ongoing Guyana-Venezuela controversy, but decided against it because it seems that the public is saturated with information on the related facts and law.

This Week-in-Review November 26th to December 2nd

Border controversy ICJ rules in favour of Guyana: Recognizing the referendum which Venezuela had planned for tomorrow (December 3rd) as a seriously “urgent,” “real” and “imminent” threat to the rights which Guyana currently has to the Essequibo, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued a warning of refrain to Venezuela.

Loris Nathoo playing in the 2023 Guyana National Chess Championship

A Benko Gambit gamble

Could an individual game in the single round robin event between Loris Nathoo, an improved 1700 player, and Taffin Khan, a 2000 FIDE competitor, signal the switch of the Guyana National Chess Championship title?

The delights of reading

Joseph Brodsky, the great Russian poet who died at the sadly young age of 56, on receiving his Nobel Prize in the Grand Hall of the Swe-dish Academy in Stockholm in December, 1987, declared a great truth: “There is no doubt in my mind that, should we have been choosing our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programmes, there would be much less grief on earth.”

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