Stabroek Weekend

“I lived here when I was a little girl,” Gaiutra Bahadur pleaded nostalgically to the security guard, unsuccessfully seeking entry to the derelict Wales Estate compound.

A leader can inspire change for the better so profound and far-reaching that he deserves to be called a genius.

LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index grew 0.542 percent on the sale of 104,845 shares during the second period of trading in April 2024. 

What a coincidence that Matthew Vaughn’s action blockbuster comedy “Argylle” arrived to streaming on Apple TV+ at the tail-end of last week, the same week that saw online film enthusiasts grappling with the leaked industry responses from the March 28 screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming “Megalopolis”.

According to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), the US Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that in 2022 arts and cultural production accounted for US$1,102,084,995,000 or 4.31% of the US economy.

From last Thursday “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare opened for a series of shows for schools at the National Culture Centre.

Last week, we examined Section 23 of the Sexual Offences Act, Cap 8:03, Laws of Guyana (the “SOA”), which criminalises the act of obtaining sexual activity from individuals with mental disorders through inducement, threat, or deception.

You know the proverb, necessity is the mother of invention, right?

The massive marvels of architecture constantly take various forms around us.

There is something about trying to lose weight that feels almost impossible and pointless in the beginning.

Dave Martins, a legend of Guyanese music, culture, and literature celebrated his 90th birthday last week.

On Sunday May 5, the Promenade Gardens, Middle Street, Georgetown, will be the venue for a Cuban and Latin American cultural festival that will kick off at 2 pm, as part of the efforts of the tourism sector to promote event tourism The festival, titled “Fiesta Cubana” will be hosted by Global Tours and Travel in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in Guyana and is being sponsored by the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited, Sky High Dominicana Airlines, Mobile Money Guyana and Massy Distribution Guyana Inc, a Global Tours and Travel release stated.

Introduction Regular  readers would recall that I used national budget 2023 to portray Guyana’s macro-economic and micro-economic foundations as satisfying the standard definitional prerequisites for a nation designated to be a Petrostate.

As at Wednesday last, after six rounds in the 2024 FIDE World Champion-ship Candidates Chess Tournaments, 17-year-old Indian grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh and Tan Zhongyi of China had taken the lead, but the race remained wide open.

Haiti is marked today in the regional imagination by notions, images and stigmas of poverty, violence, tragedy, political chaos, gang control, and disastrous foreign interventions, but these perceptions, while generally true, only scratch the surface of a nation with a rich and complex history.

Yuh gat fuh blow yuh nose where yuh stump yuh toe!

Border controversy Gov’t, opposition slam Venezuela over further escalation of illegal claim: The government and the opposition last Thursday condemned Venezuela’s latest activation of legislation to annex Guyana’s Essequibo region, noting that it violates the Argyle Agreement signed in December last year.

By Abigail Headley Romaine Benn is a 32-year-old Barbados-based entrepreneur originally from the West Coast Berbice, who has faced her fair share of ups and downs in life.

Bradford Allicock, the incumbent toshao of Fairview Village in the North Rupununi, has been involved with the Iwokrama River Lodge and the rainforest reserve from the inception.

“Because I don’t like the disrespect, I said okay… I’m just going to go and work on my own and that is how Lifestyle Concierge came about as a full-time role rather than a part-time role,” Rashawna Alleyne said.