Stabroek Weekend

In the run-up to the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation’s National Senior Championships next month, and after detailing the benefits of the deadlift last week, this column looks at the squat aka the king of lifts.

(BBC) As the world reflects on the cultural significance of hip-hop in the year of its 50th anniversary, the power of its origins are more significant than ever.

Could an individual game in the single round robin event between Loris Nathoo, an improved 1700 player, and Taffin Khan, a 2000 FIDE competitor, signal the switch of the Guyana National Chess Championship title?

As noted in last week’s article, “Bernadette Indira Persaud AA – A visual poet…mostly in her words”, Persaud had a predilection for art as a child which she nurtured whenever opportunities arose.

(Reuters) Rape is widespread amid the war in Sudan. Young women from the ethnic-African Masalit tribe say they were sexually assaulted at gunpoint by RSF paramilitary and Arab militia forces during attacks on the city of El Geneina in West Darfur.

“I was in a job that was slowly draining me. I couldn’t believe I was there for so long as I had given myself just about two years but yet eight years later, I was still there and it was not doing good for me.

Gregory Peck, an American actor, once said, “Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.”

Prologue  On 8th January, 1987, it was announced that the 1988 Australia Tour of the West Indies had been cancelled.

There is something deeply traumatising about navigating online social spaces in moments of absolute political turmoil and instability.

Joseph Brodsky, the great Russian poet who died at the sadly young age of 56, on receiving his Nobel Prize in the Grand Hall of the Swe-dish Academy in Stockholm in December, 1987, declared a great truth: “There is no doubt in my mind that, should we have been choosing our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programmes, there would be much less grief on earth.”

The boastful bravado of the Nicolas Maduro/Delcy Rodriguez political duopoly, mirroring the audacious and nefarious plots of the Venezuelan ruling elite, has been dented by the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Debbie Joseph-Hopkinson, 53, interim director of the Institute for Human Resilience, Strategic Security and the Future, University of Guyana and president of the Guyana Association of Professional Social Workers (GAPSW) has slowly but surely climbed the academic and professional ladders by following due process.

Miss Coverden Joel Perry won the Miss East Bank pageant, besting 11 other young women, who represented their villages with pride.

The Atta Rainforest Lodge in the Iwokrama Rainforest Reserve, has been numbered at ten of 15 in an article titled “The Lodges with a front row seat onto South America’s epic landscapes”, published in The Times newspaper of the United Kingdom.

Well, truth be told, it’s oven time all year round in the Caribbean, although I know that many of us took a break from this cooking appliance during the heatwave we experienced for weeks this year.

I do not get the impression that the governance of the world is good or that it is getting better.

“If there are ten doors you could go through and only one you must go through, a kind God closes the other nine.”

Howl, howl, howl!  O you are men of stones. Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so That heaven’s vault should crack.

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.

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