Stabroek Weekend

Family dramas across generations, continents and genres were a recurring preoccupation at the Toronto International Film Festival this year.

Step forward with your left foot (count 1) Move your right to your left foot (uh) count 2 Step backward with your right foot (count 3) Move your left foot to your right foot (uh) count 4 Now repeat these steps to the rhythm in your head as your tastebuds recall the dance of enjoyment of the Pol Sambol (coconut sambol) you just ate.

I celebrated 32 years around the sun last weekend. I consider it to be a massive blessing considering the state of the world and how many lives have been upended either due to the pandemic, increased natural disaster or political and economic turmoil over the past year.

Self-taught musician and leader of the Couchman Family Band, 66-year-old Leon Couchman is hoping that music produced locally could attract corporate sponsorship in order to preserve Indigenous and other Guyanese rhythms as he has lost much of his own compositions because of production, copyright and sponsorship issues.

Lasy Update: 945.38                              Movement: -0.0% Current Update: 945.38                         YTD Movement: 36.642%LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index remained unchanged during the third period of trading in September 2021.

Two pieces of legislation contain many of the reforms that President Biden promised Americans on the campaign trail.

Part 1 Introduction In this week’s column I start my effort to re-address the Buxton Proposal.

Assaulted and later forced out of the place she called home, her clothes and that of her daughter flung out, a pregnant 36-year-old Jenny (not her real name) made the streets her home.

The third season of “Sex Education” opens with a montage of characters primarily devoted to some frantic sex.

The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) holds its biennial chess meeting via Zoom conferencing on Monday, November 1, 2021 from 18:00 hours.

When Amanda Noel-Amsterdam and Stephanie Noble were first introduced by a mutual friend four years ago, they did not realize right away how much they had in common.

Among School Children                  I I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn to cipher and to sing, To study reading-books and history, To cut and sew, be neat in everything In the best modern way—the children’s eyes In momentary wonder stare upon A sixty-year-old smiling public man.

One of the most serious aspects of life today is the widening gap between talk and action.

On Wednesday, I was at the barbershop and my barber and his peers had a debate on what is the best time to work out.

Beverage mixing has been a tradition in Guyana. In 1924, Gaston Smith, the U.S.

Whenever the word steam or steamed shows up in the title of a recipe, we often think the dish would be bland, boring, or is being made because someone is unwell.

I go back and forth trying to understand why Guyanese at home and abroad find it so easy to latch onto movements like Black Lives Matter, which originate in North America and the West with so much zeal and passion but find it difficult to draw similar comparisons to and act the same when incidents that bear similarities happen right here at home.

To compelling, if varied, results, three films screened at the recently concluded TIFF2021 explored similar themes of women in crisis struggling to acclimate to the systems around them – Canadian family-drama “All My Puny Sorrows”, the Brazilian horror film “Medusa”, and the Danish drama “As In Heaven”.

Biopics tend to get a bad rep, mostly due to a swathe of listless interrogations of real-life figures, but it’s instructive to remember that a biopic is not really a genre of film.

After years of feasting on turtles and their eggs as delicacies, the residents of Sand Creek, South Central Rupununi have taken up new traditions.