Stabroek Weekend

British chess grandmaster and one time world championship title challenger, Nigel Short, wrote an article for the Dutch magazine New in Chess recently, titled ‘Vive la Difference’ which claimed, provocatively, that there are genetic reasons why men are more successful in chess than women.

Balsam commonly called Lady’s Slipper comes from the Balsaminaceae family and is related to Impatiens.

Sunday Cartoon

Hi Everyone, While I have eaten various types of souse – pig’s feet, cow heel and cow face as well as chicken feet, green banana and breadfruit – I had never had channa souse until a couple of months ago, while on that trip to Trinidad that I bet you are tired of hearing of by now.

This week my focus is on the style diary of the women who performed at the GDF Anniversary concert last week: Guyanese Jacki Jaxx and Timeka Marshal and Jamaican Tanya Stephens.  

In 1962 the slogan ‘axe the tax’ became well known in then British Guiana.

Nestled in Canal Number Two Polder on the West Bank Demerara is a petite village called Mon Desir.

Introduction After some introductory material, the lessons dealt with so far in this series on the management of Guyana’s public investment regime have concentrated on: 1) the “basic steps” needed to establish an adequately functioning organization of this regime and 2) the types of failures and weaknesses displayed in public projects during the 2000s.

Sports psychologist and medical doctor Rudi Webster, who has written often on West Indies cricket, gave a very detailed speech on that subject at a recent sport seminar in Barbados where he outlined some qualities missing from our recent teams.

By United States of America Embassy Georgetown Chargé d’Affaires Bryan Hunt   GEORGETOWN—World Press Freedom Day in Guyana has special meaning in 2015. 

Encouraging competition Last week’s article considered two of the three components of the economics of unity.

Today marks 180 years of the arrival of the Portuguese in Guyana.

I am reissuing the personal manifesto I have issued in previous general election campaigns and will no doubt continue to issue until time runs out on me.

Since 1982 there has been an International Dance Day observed by countries around the world.

On May 7 the people of the United Kingdom will vote in a general election.

Ectropion   Last week we dealt with the condition whereby the eyelids roll inwards and, as a consequence, the edge of the lids and the eyelashes rub against the eyeball.

The Norwegian Parliament recently approved a trial to include a one-hour a week chess class in schools for third and fourth grade students.

When Pope Francis goes to Cuba in September, he will have a larger-than-usual influence over the Cuban government: he has been a champion of dialogue with the island’s regime and strong critic of the US trade embargo since he authored a little-known book on Cuba in 1998.

By Amina Mohammed   At the turn of the century, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represented a new approach to address by end of 2015 the greatest development challenges of that time.

The second “Conversation on Art” between eminent Guyanese artist Stanley Greaves A A and artist Akima McPherson focuses on Edward Rupert Burrowes’s Guiana, Land of the Dolorous Garde, another significant work of art in the Guyana National Collection, housed in the National Gallery of Art, Castellani House, Georgetown.