Stabroek Weekend

Having retired years ago after 52 years in the sugar industry, including working closely with governments and regional institutions along the way, if there is one thing I have learned it is the extreme frailty of all grand plans.

“I could remember vividly that as a child I would run from him because he would always try to touch my privates.

This week, I am deviating from the health and fitness tips to put the spotlight on the fitness success story of Chandini Khan who went from chubby to fit and fabulous.

Introduction Because of the amount of material I still have left to cover and the usual space limitations, today’s column is confined towards advancing the discussion of the Governance Curse.

One of the most dedicated studies of a single author in Guyanese and West Indian literature has recently been released by the UWI Press.

The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) will host a dinner at the Promenade Gardens, Middle St, on Saturday, July 28, from 7 pm, the first of a series of fundraisers to facilitate a team travelling to the 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia, in September.

Musa speciosa commonly called Ornamental Banana originated in Mexico and throughout the tropics. 

The Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) lives in fresh and salt-water wetlands throughout much of the world; North and South America from Canada as far south as northern Argentina and Chile, in the Falkland Islands, Europe, Asia and Africa.

I don’t like to be disturbed when I’m fighting the patriarchy unconsciously, much less consciously.

Hi Everyone, I cannot take credit for this idea. I first heard of Cheese Biganee from one of my cousins a couple of months ago.

Hannah Gadsby: Nanette, a Netflix stand-up comedy special that premiered in June, leaves a lasting impression.

Tucked away in the district of Mahaica some 20 miles from the city is the village of Unity, which is divided into three sub-villages: Unity, Lancaster and Mosquito Hall.

In 1991 and 1992, when I was working with the West Indian Commission, a feature of many of the presentations made by scores of experts and academics and businessmen and educators was how often they cited other countries as influences we needed to recall or examples we should strive to emulate.

United States President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump paid an official visit to the UK on Thursday and Friday last week.

The ruckus created by some dogs awakened Gloria Fernandes in the dead of the night and what caught her attention immediately was the pitiful cry of one dog that was barely audible above the din.

Life in Guyana can bring us so many traumas that it is easy to lose sight of the fact that there are bright spots, as well, and indeed part of the process of dealing with the days here, as so many of my friends the likes of Ian McDonald and George Jardim are wont to tell me, is to focus on those bright spots, indeed, lean on them or turn to them in the bleak moments. 

“I knew something was going on, but I could not put my finger on it.

This week we will take a look at some foods which will fuel your workouts and along with the exercises, aid in your toning efforts for that ‘summer’ body.

In the previous column on the topic of the “trade war,” I outlined some of the consensus views regarding the potential impact.