Stabroek Weekend

Things are slowly reopening here and the excitement feels almost like Christmas.

At 90, Harold Edwards, better known as ‘Uncle Joe,’ of Soesdyke, can be described as remarkable.

When a young Carla Cassiano agreed to be part of a refraction technique training, she was unsure what it entailed but looking back years later she believes that it was the best decision she has made as not only is she now a qualified optometrist but she has been able to use her skills to make eye care more accessible in hinterland regions.

The PPP/C Government attained political office in circumstances in which the rule of law was under severe stress.

It happens. It is life. Great contributions are made. Years go by and they are forgotten and those who made them are forgotten too.

In the course of doing my column recently, I was reflecting on our tendency to see Guyana only through a negative lens, and I remembered a time in 2008, when I was living in Cayman, and had an exchange with a close Guyanese friend, George Jardim, living in America, who had sent me a couple emails on some matter in Guyana.

Lawanda Pillay always had a knack for craft and decorating so the founding of her business Hats Off Décor and Events – Topper Queen was perhaps a natural progression, although it did not quite happen that way.

[Daryll A Goodchild, Crassin De Rivvah: The Caribbean Flavour, Georgetown: Daryll Goodchild, 2019.

June is Pride Month. Throughout this month, members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Asexual, Interest and Queer communities and their allies – both in Guyana and across the globe – recognise, acknowledge, and celebrate the influences and achievements of the LGBT+ community through the millennia.

In the climax of Baz Luhrmann’s “Moulin Rouge!”, Nicole Kidman’s distraught Satine sings out a verse to her retreating lover, Christian, in a moment of affecting metatextuality.

Introduction Today’s column starts my review of the Government of Guyana’s, GoG’s, natural gas to shore proposal, as prioritized in the 2021 National Budget.

Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka is one of the fittest and highest-earning women in the world.

“A lot of us don’t like to talk about it but we are at times not happy to become old.

World Champion Magnus Carlsen defeated American grandmaster Wesley So in an Arma-geddon match to win the FTX Crypto Cup, the sixth tournament of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour recently.

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Shake, shake, shake! Shake that roti! For years I have heard about people shaking roti (oil/paratha roti) in jugs, all in an effort to get away from clapping the roti hot off the tawa, avoiding the sting from the heat and subsequent tenderness of the hands.

When dealing with things that are intangible, the reality of them being dangerous can at times feel unreal.

Although poverty forced her to drop out of school when she was in second form, community health worker (CHW) and activist Everly Klass-Sampson has gone on to pursue her dreams of building her adopted community of Caria Caria in the Essequibo River into a healthy and socially strong one.

By Nigel Westmaas  “Haiti has repeatedly been punished for its original sin of racial insurgency” -Johnhenry Gonzalez, Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti Toussaint Louverture Haiti’s revolutionary history and the real sources of its perennial failure as a nation state in modern times has too often been denied, sanitized or ignored in general narratives about the country and society.

A letter from prominent citizens in Stabroek News last Friday called for consultation on electoral reforms.