Stabroek Weekend

The Carib Grackle (Quiscalus lugubris) can be found in the Lesser Antilles and northern South America among other places.

Hi Everyone, Thick and creamy like milkshake, Mango Lassi is not simply a drink, it is like dessert in a glass.

Amandla Stenberg was one of a handful of actors who attended the Toronto International Film Festival this year as the star of two films.

Ever since I migrated, I have had a hard time breaking up with summer.  According to my husband, I never truly acknowledge it, I just automatically go into hibernation mode.

“I have a poem.” It’s such an innocuous line but one that hides a wealth of profundity.

Mount Sinai is a beautiful little village surrounded by Vryheid, Savannah Park, Angoy’s Avenue and Bermine Scheme in New Amsterdam.

My younger friends – and at my advanced age virtually everyone is younger – particularly Generation Xers (born 1965-79) and the millennials (born 1980-2000) – complain about being over-scheduled and over-committed.

Stabroek News will forever be defined by its birth pangs from an authoritarian womb.

“When I was getting her, I had so much dreams for her.

Among the many things I discovered after migrating to Toronto in the late 1950s was the value of the Guyanese dialect I had grown up with; something in fact that I had been made to feel ashamed of in my homeland, a condition not unique to me. 

As a personal trainer, I spend quite a lot of my time in gyms.

During this week I met some folks interested in gardening, but they were confused as to what to plant.

“We are focused on the administration of chess to increase our reach throughout Guyana.

                             arrival                                            this is the place mark its name the streets you must learn to remember   there are special songs here they do not sing of you in them you do not exist but to exist you must learn to love them you must believe them when they say there are no sacrificial lambs here   the houses are warm there’s bread there’s wine   bless yourself you have arrived                   listen keys                       rattle locks                      click doors                    slam                 silence     roomer   here I cower from the day’s drain and glare a shadow a wrinkled skin cover me gently night’s linen prepare me prepare me                          separate ways   stranger in the sunset I long to know you To touch the poem of your presence To dispel this loneliness But the sun darkens And we go our separate ways                                   Arnold Itwaru   These selected poems by Guyanese writer and academic Arnold Itwaru make statements about contemporary Guyanese literature and about Itwaru’s contribution to it.

Introduction Today’s column is numbered 16 in the sequence devoted to evaluating the “top-10 development challenges” that I predict spending Guyana’s Government Take from the coming petroleum sector  has to navigate.

The Brown-bellied Antwren (Epinecrophylla gutturalis) forages in the undergrowth of moist lowland forests for insects hidden among leaves, often as part of a mixed-species flock of other typical antbirds.

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Hi Everyone, It’s the tail end of the tomato season but the price is still encouraging.

I ponder at times why we as Guyanese people are so reluctant to embrace parts of our culture.

Is the new film “A Star is Born” a musical? This seems a bizarre question to ask.