Stabroek Weekend

The most interesting aspect about human beings is our ability to evolve.

As the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) continues to roll out its school chess manoeuvres, overseas-based Guyanese Raymond Singh, a former 1980s GCF champion, has donated 2,000 chess sets to Guyana to use in the school system.

Next month, the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation will stage its flagship National Senior Championships.

Introduction Today’s column engages the  fifth of the six listed social protection mechanisms [state employment] that are widely utilized to address persistent poverty in emerging oil-rich economies.

The confrontation between the Government and the Georgetown City Council has gone on for far too long and should now come to an end.

I know many of us sisters are getting anxious. Why? Christmas is just 30 days away.

Living in a western country and seeing the traditional Indian beauty ritual hair oiling rise in popularity when it was once scoffed at, is perplexing.

Education Guyanese students capture top awards at CSEC, CAPE: Guyanese students have once again secured outstanding results at the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC).

By Miranda La Rose Dr Nneka Johnson, 49, wanted to follow in the footsteps of her parents – her mother was a teacher and her father, a social worker – and was conflicted about her career path, so she pursued studies in both fields and now successfully blends both disciplines in her field of work to better the lives of the people.

Want chicken that’s flavoursome, finger-licking and succulent? Then cook it in a pot on the stovetop, low and slow.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour looks at the role of Australian Dennis Waight during the West Indies Cricket Team’s Glory Years of the 1980s and 1990s.

The Lucas Stock Index rose 2.403 percent during the second period of trading in November 2023. 

When the Ram and McRae National Qualifiers Tournament concludes today, the top ten competitors will move on to contest the 2023 National Chess Championships billed for later this month.

Once upon a time drama and theatre in Guyana were exclusive to the Theatre Guild and vice versa.

Sometimes, amidst the positivity of the word yes, a solid no can be the healthy answer.

Dave Martins’s song “Not A Blade of Grass” is playing on steroids right now and while there is a heightened sense of national pride across certain sections of the population due to the border controversy, there is a big part of me that can’t help but to interrogate the phrase, “is we own” that is being plastered everywhere.

It isn’t an exercise that makes much sense to try and rank poets in a sort of hierarchy of greatness.

After more than 12,000 deaths, more than 5,000 being children and 3,000 women, with 3,700 missing, there is no end in sight to the Gaza slaughter.

Introduction Last week’s column referenced six mechanisms utilized by oil-rich economies pursuing poverty eradication.