Stabroek Weekend

Over 100 students aged seven to 15 years old are benefitting from a compre-hensive online program-me, conducted by the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF), to learn and study the game of chess.

Determined to peel away the veil that sometimes covers how sex and sexuality are addressed locally, young medical doctor Patricia Douglas has opened a consultancy company to provide quality, non-clinical sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services.

What are movies for? It’s a question that often haunts cinematic discourse, as if a pithy response explaining the whys of cinema would make it more important.

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 Swedish 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.”

I is a long memoried woman        From dih pout of mih mouth from dih treacherous calm of mih smile you can tell I is a long memoried woman -Grace Nichols   Nanny   Ashanti Priestess and giver of charms earth substance woman of science and black fire magic Maroonic woman of courage and blue mountain rises Standing over the valleys dressed in purple robes bracelets of the enemy’s teeth curled around your ankles in rings of ivory bone And your voice giving sound to the Abeng its death cry chilling the mountainside which you inhabit like a strong pursuing eagle As you watch the hissing foaming cauldron spelling strategies for the red oppressors’ blood willing them to come mouthing a new beginning song is that you Nanny – Is that you Nanny?

“This cost a living really getting to me now. Well it getting to me long now but now is like me head spinning.

Many of you have decided to start your fitness journey in 2022, so here is a tool for your toolbox: a pre-workout supplement.

On My Plate (OMP) is a series in which I share with you what I’m eating.

It may be a bit late, but Happy New Year, nevertheless.

Part 13 Introduction Today’s column [Part13] is the final  in the present series centring on my re-visit of the Buxton Proposal.

By Claudia Tomlinson The use of intelligence services was an important strategy employed by Britain to supress anti-colonialism in the Caribbean.

So, let us wage a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism and let us pick up our books and pens.

Cent and Jill By Rooplall Monar Every time Christmas season approaching me does always remember one particular Friday gone back when me was a small boy going to estate two-storey white, red and colour pay office.

Last Update: 1,028.79                        Movement: 2.449% Current Update: 1,053.99                  YTD Movement: 2.449%LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index increased 2.449 percent during the first period of trading in January 2022.

A famous actress is cosmetically and sartorially transformed into a famous historical figure.

Since the calendar flipped to 2022, there have been increases in COVID-19 cases worldwide, Guyana included.

By Tarron Khemraj The Natural Resource Fund Act of December 2021 is a clear and concise document outlining the purpose of the Fund, as well as the sources of oil revenue deposit and method of withdrawal.

Rihanna, the Barbadian singer, became popular with the song ‘Umbrella,’ released in 2008.

Two impulses contend in me – one is to allow chaos to take hold and the other is to keep everything tidy and in good order.

By Stanley Greaves “When ah draw me box han’ I doan wan’ nobody baddy me” These two lines, repeated with the same melody, are from a Guyanese folk song I collected from my close friend, the late Wordsworth McAndrew, folklorist.