Stabroek Weekend

As you get older, you need to work out and stay active and healthy as best as possible.

(Michael Jordan, Kamarang, Georgetown, published by Michael Jordan, 2017; with illustrations by Harold Bascom; 500pp.)

By Nikita Blair Two weekends ago, I scratched something off my bucket list: I attended the Bocas Literature Festival.

The first shot we see of Henry Golding as Kit in “Monsoon” is instructive.

Start position: The St Louis Chess Club in the US held its annual Chess 9LX 2020 Tournament as an online competition owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.

                                                      for what else is there                 but books, books and the sea,                 verandahs and the pages of the sea                 to write of the wind and the memory                                          of wind whipped hair                 in the sun, the colour of fire.

Introduction Today’s column continues consideration of Rystad Energy’s modelling of the cost of delay in the Payara Project, incurred from the delayed approval of ExxonMobil and partners’ final investment decision (FID), which had been submitted to the Government of Guyana (GoG) last year.

While I don’t profess to know the origins of it, I have been aware, going back to my short pants days growing up in West Dem, of my fascination with words, whether in the subjects being taught in high school at St.

At the 151st birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on Friday last, President Irfaan Ali said: “The Republic of Guyana has just emerged from a bruising test of its democracy.

Last Update:640.36                           Movement: 0.74% Current Update:645.11                     YTD Movement: 6.45%The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 0.74% during the fourth period of trading in September, 2020.

While television celebrity Chef Alton Brown’s book of the same title as the headline for this column is all about the science and how-to of cooking the food, I am here to tell you that for me, especially this week, I’m just here for the food – to eat and enjoy.

I have a very complex relationship with my hair. I love what it used to be and though I am actively trying to get it back there, it sometimes feels like it would be much easier to allow myself to get side tracked on the days it doesn’t co-operate.

The set-up for “Another Round” feels like it’s lifted from a punchline of a very good joke.

  There’s a scene in the middle of “Concrete Cowboy” where the film seems to be firing on all cylinders.

In a way, Kornél Mundruczó’s “Pieces of a Woman” feels doomed by its own title – a film that works better in pieces and moments, than it does as a sustained narrative.

When Ovid Williams gained a place at Queen’s College, English was his second language and the communication barrier and home isolation saw him turning to the guitar, which resulted in him becoming one of Guyana’s well-known and accomplished musicians.

Below you will find four stories written by me but composed of the hopes, fears and dreams of fellow Guyanese just like yourself.

With her Guyana 2050 Scenarios Project, Sustainable Development Master student Ana Correia hopes to get Guyanese thinking and talking about the country’s future.

Six Guyanese organisations that focus on women and gender and LGBTQ issues are now among the 27 Caribbean beneficiaries of direct funding from the Canadian government’s Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL) Project.

In commemoration of Indigenous Heritage Month 2020, the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) has organised an online video competition to highlight the resilience shown by Guyana’s Indigenous Peoples during the COVID-19 pandemic.