Stabroek Weekend

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour reviews the first two Test matches of the series.

The Hand That Signed the Paper The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death.

The 2023 Bocas Children’s Book Prize winner is Garnet Lawrence’s Anansi and the Fire Ants.

In a long life I have read the books and been taught the deeds and studied the scholarship and seen the art of the famous in many great countries of the world.

On December 7, the world observed International Civil Aviation Day, which has been celebrated by the International Civil Aviation Organisation since 1994, and was officially recognised by the United Nations General Assembly in 1996.

By Abigail Headley Nicketa Alphonso, a former airline employee, found herself facing an uncertain future when the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country.

The three-part series on the ‘Big Three’ lifts concludes this week with the bench press.

Introduction Today’s column engages the IMF’s recent publication on Universal Basic Income, UBI schemes as a direct complement to last week’s, which engaged the World Bank study on the same topic.

(Conversation Tree expresses its sincere condolences to the GDF and to the families and friends of Guyana’s brave and intrepid military officers who lost their lives while protecting and defending us).

How can anyone, at this point, muster up any joy to celebrate Christmas?

Being a young person is a beautiful experience. Being young means that you are quite new to the world.

Christmas is the most auspicious time of the year when hearts and minds think of dear ones and succumb to those who need.

I thought about using today’s column to speak about the ongoing Guyana-Venezuela controversy, but decided against it because it seems that the public is saturated with information on the related facts and law.

Border controversy ICJ rules in favour of Guyana: Recognizing the referendum which Venezuela had planned for tomorrow (December 3rd) as a seriously “urgent,” “real” and “imminent” threat to the rights which Guyana currently has to the Essequibo, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued a warning of refrain to Venezuela.

By Abigail Headley “I give all glory to God for the great things He has done in my life and for allowing me to recognize the potential I had hidden inside of me.

By Miranda La Rose Harold Bascom, self-taught in every sphere of his professional life, is an award-winning playwright, artist/illustrator, stage director and author.

Let’s gyaff! What are you thinking about for the Christmas menu?

The Lucas Stock Index fell 0.136 percent during the final period of trading in November 2023. 

Introduction Today’s and next week’s column combine to form a preface to my intended task of updating the Buxton Proposal.

By Rae Wiltshire Vibert Dummett is an artist who specialises in portrait drawings, paintings, and designs (fashion), with a penchant for using household bleach to create patterns on cloth.