Stabroek Weekend

“I miss my students and sometimes and I worry about them a lot.

[Neaz Subhan, Coming Back: An Escape From Suicide, Georgetown: Neaz Subhan, 2020. 

“French Exit”, Azazel Jacobs’ new film takes place in a world removed from our own.

Face masks are available in many colours and styles and it seems getting vaccinated could make them passe  It looks like masks are coming off and I am all for it. 

As more black women embraced their natural hair, Kean Dey began posting pictures of her afro hairstyles on her social media page.

In Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian neighbourhood in Jerusalem, captured and since occupied by Israel in the Six Day War in 1967, Israel sought to evict six Palestinian families, who have been in occupation since 1948 or before.

Regardless of what is sandwiched in between, it is the bread, the roll, the bun, that makes a sandwich exceptional.

I rarely ever give my clothing away after a trend has passed.

Captain Shelly Dookram has been a pilot for two years, and she vividly remembers being a little girl, watching planes take off from the Eugene F Correia (then Ogle) Airport and knowing that she wanted to fly them.

When she lost her mother, her biggest inspiration and supporter, a little over a month ago, Natalia Robinson drained most of her savings for the funeral expenses.

I was prepared for the morning sickness and food aversions, big feet, swollen fingers, shortness of breath, huge nose and lips, darkened skin across the neck, face and the unimaginable places and of course the stretch marks which many regard as badges of honour.

Dr Dawn Fox developed a love affair with Chemistry in secondary school, which has flourished as she now lecturers in the field, has done tons of research and if all goes well will soon produce a household water filter made entirely from recycled and locally available materials, which can be deployed in vulnerable communities and emergency situations. 

Most of the working life of Ivor Melville, Executive Director of the Hope Foundation, has been in delivering public health services in HIV/AIDS and more recently COVID-19 in Bartica and outlying and hinterland communities in Region Seven.

Reading prevents your life ever narrowing down to the humdrum, the routine or the boring.

I wrote a column on this topic some time ago, but following some recent brouhaha in our local media over the quality of a particular artistic production, it is clearly a focus we have to keep revisiting, It’s not obvious – in fact it’s often completely overlooked – but the truth is that in every high quality performance in the arts, the writing is the key. 

Introduction As indicated last week, starting with today’s column, I shift focus away from offering readers data and analytics rooted in instructional guidance on the political economy of Guyana’s emerging oil and gas.

Cheddi Jagan railed for decades in hundreds of articles and thousands of speeches at the unfair and exploitative extraction of wealth by the developed industrial countries from the poor South, with an unenviable command of facts and figures.

About a decade ago I took my nephew, a child at the time, to see a rare live production of “Sesame Street” that was touring the region.

At 22, Miss Bikini Champion Rosanna Fung is fit and fabulous and despite being at the top rung of the ladder in terms of health and fitness, she is a strong advocate for people to be vaccinated in order to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.