Stabroek Weekend

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds.

Every household has its special Christmas roast. This year, in some homes it will be chicken, in others pork, beef, turkey or lamb.

Introduction Today’s column continues the discussion of the tenth (and final) item on my list of “top-10 development challenges”, which as I have indicated, Guyana will face when spending Government Take from its coming petroleum sector.

Christmas arrives on Tuesday and between the shopping and the eating and gifting most folks will be turning to entertainment to pass the days away.

The White Hawk (Pseudastur albicollis) is a  a bird of prey breeding in southern Mexico through Central and South Americato Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.

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The best thing about any incarnation of Spider-Man has always been his normalcy.

Eccles is a thriving community just beyond old Georgetown. It has been around for more than 70 years, with its business growth beginning some 30 years ago.

“It is just hard for me to see myself like this and the New Year is coming, and things are not getting better.

The preliminary photos of our revamped airport terminal at Timehri, remind me of the time I spent there after I graduated from Saint Stanislaus College in Georgetown. 

A scathing editorial in the Kaieteur News last Friday shockingly castigated Members of Parliament in most unparliamentary language, from which the title of this piece is taken.

Even in the worst of times – and who can doubt that the times are pretty bad– reading comes to the rescue by revealing other worlds of experience where cruelty and mindlessness and man’s inhumanity to man do not continually have the upper hand.

We witnessed recently, a series of draws in the classical games of the World Chess Championship Match.

The Christmas season is here and with it comes presents, pepperpot, black cake and the common cold.

Guyana now has an annual National Poetry Slam. This represents not only an entertaining event, but an important development of a popular performance form and a significant recognition of this form as a further addition to national literature.

Last Update: 479.71 Movement: -0.96% Current Update: 484.30 YTD Movement: 643.55%The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 0.965 during the second period of trading in December 2018. 

Introduction In last week’s column, I had indicated that there were two proposals, which I wished to offer on the tenth topic on my list of “top-10 development challenges.”

Poinsettias are one of the symbols of Christmas and there is much excitement when they are seen.

Hi Everyone, What’s Cooking is a series in which I answer questions and share advice about food and cooking that you have but may be too shy to ask.

The unwritten rule as it relates to colour co-ordination for certain special events has always baffled me.