Stabroek Weekend

Up to five years ago I would walk regularly to meetings from my office north along Avenue of the Republic, from west of the Supreme Court building, then west into Robb Street, to the then Fogarty’s building in Water Street.

From all accounts a beautiful soul died last week by suicide.

Resolution and Independence      I was a traveller then upon the moor; .

Scrolling through my social media timelines on Wednesday, I could not help but notice the amount of RIP posts for a young woman from many of her Facebook and Instagram friends.

Toronto is a calm, clean, well-ordered, cosmopolitan, peaceful city.  If one long weekend in this city of two and a half million people there are a couple of murders it is an alarming law and order crisis.  

If the unhinged earnestness of Tom Hardy’s central performance was the hook that necessitated a sequel to the 2018 “Venom”, it’s a bit surprising that the recently released sequel – titled “Let There Be Carnage” begins with someone other than Eddie Brock and his faithful symbiote friend.

As a young man in West Dem, Guyana, living at Vreed-en-Hoop, going to Saints Stanislaus on a scholarship, I made many trips to my father’s farm in the Pomeroon, sometimes by train, sometimes by bus, linking up with the ferry to Adventure, and then by bus to Charity, and boat to the farm. On

As I said in last week’s column, a lot of my cooking these days is throwing together ingredients, particularly what is on hand, or creating something with leftovers.

Death will always appear to be untimely for anyone who has lost someone no matter how predictable it seemed.

By Oluatoyin Alleyne The news of a breast cancer diagnosis can break the strongest woman but what makes the difference, apart from the treatment rendered, according to two survivors, is a positive outlook and family support.

From school days to adulthood, Mahendra Sookraj’s love for planting and animal husbandry have helped him to initially stave off hunger, then to feed his family, to earn an income apart from whatever else he did, in order to build his own home and to live a comfortable and fulfilling life to date, while still helping others. 

In 1973, the Eighth Meeting of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) was held in Guyana.

The newly released comedy-drama “The Starling” is the second underwhelming Netflix release starring Melissa McCarthy this year, which is a disappointing fact for such an engaging actor.

The Warau People Discover the Earth The Caribs were the first people on earth.

In 2013, Offshore Leaks revealed the contents of 2.5 million files.

I do not think the intelligent and opened-minded Minister of Education will mind me delivering little, well-meant lectures to her from time to time.

Introduction Today’s column focuses on the third and fourth broad areas of coverage related to the Buxton  Proposal, as indicated in my first column on this topic two weeks ago.

One of the most powerful influences in our culture operate on folks like me who are involved, whether we like it or not, with the various shifts that come about from time to time, some as reaction, some as possibilities, or suggestions for possibilities. 

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport hosted its inaugural Sports Conference recently and one of the many topics discussed was sports nutrition.

“It is not easy being a security guard in this country right now, especially since people have to show the COVID vaccine card.