Stabroek Weekend

Teachers, nurses and the gig economy

As I look on and observe from an incredibly far distance while the nation’s teachers protest for both liveable wages and decent working conditions, I remember two stories my late Godmother who worked as a nurse in the public healthcare system shared with me growing up.

Cast member Jhon Narvaez attends a press
conference to promote the movie 'Pepe' at the 74th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, February 20, 2024. (Reuters photo)
Cast member Jhon Narvaez attends a press conference to promote the movie ‘Pepe’ at the 74th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, February 20, 2024. (Reuters photo)

Berlinale film ‘Pepe’ presents a hippo’s experience of colonialism

BERLIN (Reuters) – The story of Pepe, a hippopotamus from Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s private zoo, inspired Dominican director Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias to make a film reflecting on the impact of colonialism, he said.

Ground Zero

 I was very much tempted this weekend to write about Devils, Bastards and Demons – the words used by self-styled ‘Elder’ and promoter of moral revivalism, former PNC ‘strongman,’ Prime Minister Hamilton Green.

Insights

Even at 90 treasures are available in what one reads. ●             There is a scene in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence when the lovers, Ellen Olenska and Newland Archer, meet in the old Metropolitan Museum in New York in a deserted room containing antique fragments from vanished llium.

Wine, art, and transformations

Making art cannot be taught. What can be taught are techniques in artmaking; how to use certain media or tools effectively, the right kinds of supports (surfaces on which to paint or draw) depending on media, or procedures for optimal results.

Religious and social educator Medino Abraham

Social and religious educator Medino Abraham is blueprint for late bloomers

Medino Abraham did not make the grade to attend Santa Rosa Secondary in Santa Rosa Village, Moruca, Region One (Barima/Waini); he attended Santa Rosa Primary Top and completed the Secondary Schools Proficiency Examinations then written by students in the community high school system, but today the 45-year-old religious and social educator is the holder of two university degrees.

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