Stabroek Weekend

Twelve players are representing Guyana at the 2021 Online Chess Olympiad (Rapid), which began on Friday and ends on September 15.

Introduction Today’s column continues with my presentation of the previously announced series of columns, which introduces three publications that, as I indicated earlier, have had a profound impact on both my understanding of, and insights into today’s highly volatile dynamic in unfolding global energy markets.

Okay.  Going in, today I’m speaking up for Pit Bull dogs everywhere who have been labelled as dangerous  creatures given to indiscriminate biting of persons close to them. 

It is necessary to repeat again and again that in the background of all our lives there exists a fundamental and dominating lie.

By Nigel Westmaas One of the most significant African Guyanese organisations emerged in 1922, when the Negro Progress Convention (NPC) was launched by two prominent African Guianese middle-class professionals, Dr.

There’s an undercurrent of restrained anxiety throughout the six episodes of the new Netflix miniseries, “The Chair”.

After serving the United States Navy for 23 years, Michelle Simmons decided it was time to retire and give back to society, especially to the land she once called home, Guyana.

The South Rupununi Conservation Society (SRCS) is currently conducting a population assessment of two critically endangered species of birds, having been awarded funding from Re-wild and Conservation International Guyana.

Although she says Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and the rest of the Caribbean have a variety of medicinal plants that could support the body in the treatment of COVID-19, integrative medicine specialist Dr Asante Le Blanc adds that vaccines remain the best protection.

When artist Tammy Lavern Walker started experimenting with making dessert pies last year, she had no intention of turning it into a business, but in June this year, Walker’s Pie Company was formally established.

For those like me who find it difficult to keep track, or have lost track, of political and judicial events since the no confidence motion of December 21, 2018, was passed against the APNU+AFC Government in the National Assembly, Anand Goolsarran’s newly published book, “Triumph of Democracy and the Rule of Law: Guyana 2020 Elections and their Aftermath,” has come to the rescue.

Introduction This week’s column wraps up my consideration of the US Energy Information Administration, EIA’s, International Energy Outlook 2019 with projections to 2050.

Over the weekend Guyana said goodbye to one of its premier citizens.

The title I gave to one of my collections of poems is Between Silence and Silence. 

When Alfred Mohamed entered the lemonade business in the 1930s, all aspects of the process (bottle washing, syrup boiling, carbonation, filling, crowning [corking or capping], and packing) were manual.

The acronym CODA – child of deaf adults – is, perhaps, an unusual name for the new Apple TV+ family drama.

In last week’s column, I wrote about adopting positive traits of elite athletes to achieve fitness goals and I mentioned gymnast Simone Biles, sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah and swimmer Katie Ledecky.

Ten of the world’s top chess players are currently competing in the St Louis Rapid and Blitz tournament, the fourth and final of the 2021 Grand Chess Tour (GCT), which ends tomorrow.

Warning: The following article contains content about sexual abuse that may trigger an anxiety response in some readers.

Lasy Update: 823.37                                    Movement:-0.02% Current Update:823.20                                YTD Movement: 18.98%                                 LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index fell 0.02% during the second period of trading in August, 2021.