Stabroek Weekend

Breaking Down Sexual Offences

Today, we will dissect two of the most crucial provisions under the Sexual Offences Act, Cap 8:03, Laws of Guyana (the Act), which criminalise specific sexual conduct involving children.

Steamed ripe plantain, broccoli and yellow-flesh sweet potato (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)
Steamed ripe plantain, broccoli and yellow-flesh sweet potato (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

What’s Cooking: Steaming

What’s Cooking is a series in which I answer questions and share advice about food and cooking that you may have but are too shy to ask.

A look at love

A little over halfway into  Bell Hooks’ book “All About Love: New Visions”, and my mind  cannot stop reshuffling memories of my past relationships, friendships, family dysfunction, and my own shortcomings when it comes to  consistently enacting a love ethic in all aspects of  my life.  

A still shot from the rehearsal of the 1975/76 West Indies team to Australia’s TV commercial for Brut Shampoo taken from YouTube

A forgotten cricket calypso

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour continues the calypso in cricket theme from last week, by looking at a calypso composed by a West Indian cricketer which was probably better known in Australia and New Zealand than in the West Indies.

Lucas stock index

LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The third trading period in January 2024 has seen the Lucas Stock Index decline 0.617 percent on the sale of 101,159 shares. 

Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh

Ms. Blinne Ni Ghralaigh KC is a British/Irish barrister and one of eight lawyers who addressed the International Court of Justice in the case Concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v Israel).

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