Stabroek Weekend

Last weekend I bought some yams and eddoes. While there are several dishes I could have made with them, I opted to make a Choka with each.

The fourth trading period in January 2024 has seen the Lucas Stock Index decline a further 1.252 percent on the sale of 131,361 shares. 

Continuing his journey of showcasing Guyana’s folk music and rich culture, well known folk and rock musician Gavin Mendonca recently travelled to Ireland as artist at the country’s ‘Your Roots Are Showing’ folk conference, which gave him an opportunity to utilise his skills in the musical and folk world.

Today I continue the series with a breakdown of sections 12 and 13 of the Sexual Offences Act, Cap 8:03, Laws of Guyana (the Act).

Power is perhaps the most popular subject of dreams. It is a concept, much like many others, that is difficult to define.

India celebrated the 75th anniversary of its Republic Day last week.

On Sunday, January 21 in the late afternoon, as Guyana approached the final cooling off of the day, artist Dudley Charles posed a simple question on a social media platform that stirred many: Where is this painting: Anansi Story?

At thirteen, I think it was, I was reading love poetry.

Over the past two weeks there have been a number of newspaper comments complaining about the size of Guyana’s national debt.

Introduction In today’s column I commence an elaboration, in two parts, of the modeling of the petroleum metrics that undergird the Buxton Proposal.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour examines the controversy surrounding the infamous declaration by Sobers in a Test match in Trinidad in 1968, and poses the question, did Sobers really declare?

National junior chess champion Keron Sandiford made a bold statement two Thursday nights ago when he won the first Century 21 Grand Prix tournament of 2024.

Finance Singh unveils trillion-dollar budget: Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh last Monday announced that the budget for this year amounts to a historic, whopping $1.146 trillion when compared to $781.

Puerto Rican-American Janelle Mendez Viera is a survivor of military sexual violence and founder of the Military Sexual Trauma Movement.

Our review of the year 2023, started in these pages last week, found it to have been the best year for the arts in Guyana since COVID and going back for many years. 

“I really did think like when they get big you know things would get easier because you know I wouldn’t have to do things for them like before and you know we would just live and support one another.

Thomas Crum, an author and orator once said “The quality of our lives depend not on whether or not we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them.”

By Shuntel Glasgow The aspiration to one day write the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination remains alive for Jamal Reid as he battles with the changes to his physical and mental condition and as his healing takes its long and winding course.

Ezikel Alleyne started his journey as a storyteller during his primary school years.

Introduction Today’s column continues my description of the nitty-gritty features or the key nuts and bolts of the universal basic income [UBI] mechanism, the Buxton Proposal, which I have long advocated for Guyana as the most effective means of eradicating its persistent poverty.