Stabroek Weekend

I heard it said recently that the average person spends eight seconds looking at a work of art.

ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) recently launched its “Big Red Bus Tour” competition, which is intended to boost engagements with communities.

In an article entitled “Looming Guyana Crisis Tests Biden Foreign Policy Priorities,” published on 22 January, 2024, on the website of US Senator Marco Rubio, a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, who is influential on issues on Latin America, the Senator expressed views on Venezuela, Guyana, the border controversy, relations between the US and Venezuela and US and Guyana. 

For a short while one summer day out of nowhere in my life she flashed like a comet across my sky.

At the end 2023, the Guyanese cultural community mourned the loss of Rudolph Vivieros, widely known as “Potagee”, whose passing, according to Stabroek News’ Arts on Sunday columnist Al Creighton, mirrors the dimming of the lights on the age-old tradition of masquerade.  

Our daily lives have a strange manner of smothering us with stress and worries in various forms and shapes.

A few days ago I came across a snippet of a viral  radio interview which featured a local beauty influencer as its guest.

The Iwokrama River Lodge claimed the Best Lodge (2023) and Iwokrama’s Chef Colin Browne the Best Cook (2023) awards at the recent Visit Rupununi Awards Ceremony at Lethem.

In earlier articles I explained that in Guyana, the age of consent (that is, the age at which a child can consent to sexual activity) is 16 years, and that as such, it is generally a criminal offence to engage in sexual activity, including intercourse, with a child under 16 years.

  Introduction Today’s column interrogates, rather summarily, the key crude oil metrics linked to Guyana, which within the space of four years, has been already hailed as the Americas’ fastest rising Petrostate.

To all concerned: please stop telling people to burn the curry.

“Most weeks I cannot buy fish nor chicken, it is just rice and whatever little stew I can find.

Eighteen-year-old rising Indian star IM Divya Deshmukh has boldly called out sexism in the chess world following her participation in Tata Steel Chess, expressing frustration with comments about her appearance.

LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The final trading period in January 2024 has seen the Lucas Stock Index decline a further 0.047 percent on the sale of 47,485 shares. 

Parliamentary Gov’t tables bill for huge hike in withdrawal of oil money: The PPP/C government last week tabled a bill in the National Assembly for a huge increase in the annual extraction of oil revenues from the Natural Resource Fund (NRF).

Phelicia Adams has two years of experience as a home economics teacher, but said initially, she had not envisioned herself in the teaching profession.

After successfully captaining the national rugby football team, Guyana Jaguars aka The Green Machine, to a seven-year winning streak in the region from 2005, Claudius Butts, 39, the Guyana Rugby Football Union’s (GRFU) coach of the national sevens side says, he is helping to develop the young players to bring back respectability to Guyana’s rugby in the region.

“I just desperate for a proper house to live in, that is all I dream about right now and I just wish somebody could listen and hear and help we out.