Stabroek Weekend

She sits on the pavement in front of a popular downtown Georgetown mall, her hands working feverishly as she crochets.

The Caribbean Royal Shining Star Youth and Humanitarian Organiza-tion on Wednesday treated the public to a short dance display at the 1763 Monument in commemoration of Guyana’s 55th Independence anniversary.

In one conversation with Godfrey, amidst the multitude of evocations that continually cascaded out of his extraordinary memory, he told me about bird-whistling competitions and donkey-cart racing in Guyana long ago and described to me the hundred and one manifestations of that condition of bewitched infatuation in a man or a woman called typee.

The Guyana Government has decided to fund 20,000 scholarships for various online degree and certificate programmes, which are going to be housed under the Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL).

If you ever find you can’t decide between a sandwich or salad, know that it is possible to have both.

Founded by three brothers, recently established food business the Brekkfuss Klubb has been creating quite a stir among foodies, so much so that it has had to extend its menu to include brunch and lunch.

“Cruella”, like many recent Disney live-action films, does not exist on its own – it’s signalling to the past and to the future in a kind of never-ending state of prolepsis.

Introduction The 2021 National Budget identifies a successful local content policy, LCP, as required for converting projected petroleum windfall revenues into sustained economic differentiation and growth; combined with economic diversification and development.

“What’s your favourite Tradewinds song, and which one you feel has had the strongest reaction?”

In You The Earth Little rose, roselet, at times, tiny and naked, it seems as though you would fit in one of my hands, as though I’ll clasp you like this and carry you to my mouth, but suddenly my feet touch your feet and my mouth your lips: you have grown, your shoulders rise like two hills, your breasts wander over my breast, my arm scarcely manages to encircle the thin new-moon line of your waist: in love you loosened yourself like sea water: I can scarcely measure the sky’s most spacious eyes and I lean down to your mouth to kiss the earth.

Jackie ‘Jaxx’ Hanover is well known for her music and more recently her Jaxx Apparel clothing line.

Over the last weekend, the Guyana Chess Federation engineered a combined junior and senior Independence over-the-board tournament and a virtual girls’ competition.

A few years ago, I did a What’s Cooking on Baked Chicken.

The rules are finally being relaxed after a long seven months in isolation.

When Minister of Human Services and Social Security Dr Vindhya Persaud recently expressed gratitude to foster parents who have “opened their hearts and homes to children” in need of family-based care, she was referring to women like Melrose George, who has been fostering children for the past eight years.

Two young nurses working at a regional hospital saw abused women turning up to be treated daily and apart from helping to treat them they also wanted to understand the cause and effect of such violence.

Although his recent term as toshao of Orealla-Siparuta, was far from smooth sailing, Carl Peneux, 64, is hopeful that his successor can build on the groundwork that he has laid for the development of the Corentyne River indigenous communities that have a population of about 1,700 of mainly Lokono (Arawak) and Warrau peoples.

“Building a home is a taxing process for any person but I believe it’s a lot more difficult when you’re young and add to the mix, a woman.

For the past two months, Total Logistics Solution, owned by Charmaine Alleyne, has been managing logistics for corporations and entrepreneurs as well as providing immigration services, document preparation and filing needs.

[Gabrielle Mohamed, Is You Madness, Nah Me Own: A Short Collection of Creole Poetry, Georgetown: Gabrielle Mohamed, 2019.