Stabroek Weekend

In my time as a writer of songs and plays and other stuff going back to 1966, I learned always to pay attention to feedback from the public.

The recount winds down amidst the 40th Anniversary of the assassination of Walter Rodney, one of Guyana’s most prominent and courageous fighters for democracy and free and fair elections.

Many people go to the ends of the earth to find beauty.

Introduction Today’s column shifts the focus of my analysis of the likely impacts of the 2020 General Crisis, (as I have portrayed this) on Guyana’s infant oil and gas sector to its more speculative or forward-looking dimensions.

For us Guyanese, the headline should probably read, ‘Curry obsessed, are we?’

What an exhausting week! This year has really overreached its ability to make us feel as if we are living through ‘The Hunger Games’.

By Shaquawn Gill With the results of the March 2 polls still in limbo after almost three months, some first-time voters are starting to lose faith in the process that they were once excited to participate in.

Francina Lanferman-Duncan is a teacher by profession and anyone who shares just five minutes talking with her about her job will also know she’s a teacher by heart.

When Sally Persaud learnt she had cervical cancer she immediately remembered her daughter Stephanie, who had died from ovarian cancer several years before and she believed that would have been her fate as well.

“I am kind of scared and everybody like me, you know they scared.

After months, if not years of training, the current lockdown situation has probably got you worried and thinking that you are going to lose all your hard-earned fitness gains.

Some researchers have called quarantine and lockdown due to COVID-19 possibly one of the biggest “psychological experiments” on earth.

In the ten-minute sequence before the title appears, “The Lovebirds” seems to be a different kind of movie than it is.

The independence anniversary in Guyana last Tuesday crept by without flourish or fanfare – quiet, but under a pall of disquiet, imposed by the still threatening coronavirus in collusion with a pervading political siege.

Over the last seven Sundays, we have discussed various aspects of chess for beginners.

Cynicism in relation to elections in Guyana did not begin with the debate as to whether the majority of 65 is 33 or 34 in relation to the no confidence motion passed against the APNU+AFC Government by the National Assembly on December 21, 2018.

Introduction In today’s column I begin my consideration, in some detail, of the problematic that I had posed several weeks ago concerning the likely impacts on Guyana’s infant oil and gas sector of the unfolding 2020 global general crisis.

One of my long-time friends, with whom I communicate by email fairly regularly, made a comment to me recently that I should remember to remain grateful for what has come to my life through music, and while I think I have done that to some degree, it can certainly bear repeating.

“The Voters’ Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Plotters’ Wit Shall lure it back to cancel the Result Nor all thy fraud and stall wash out a word of it.”

By John Seeram The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Global has declared the month of May to be International Internal Audit Awareness Month.