Stabroek Weekend

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Schools reopen next week, and with that will come the hustle and bustle of morning routines – waking up earlier to get dressed and organised, packing snacks and lunches, running to catch the bus, or dropping off others and trying to beat the traffic to get to work/school on time.

Absolutely nothing will grind my gears more than seeing Black and Brown people mourn or try to police other Black or Brown people into feeling some sort of sorrow for the death of Britain’s late queen.

At 91, Doris Harper-Wills is still basking in the afterglow of Carifesta 72, the first ever such festival to be held in the Caribbean.

Colin De La Cruz, 46, headmaster of Waramuri Primary School, wants the Ministry of Education to gazette the ‘primary top’ or secondary department of Waramuri primary as a discrete secondary school based on the outstanding performance of its students at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.

By Tieanna Jordan Singer and songwriter Karissia Couchman has been making a name for herself on the local music scene.

“It really break my heart to see how he cry and if it was not for pride I would have break down tuh and cry.

The women who represented Guyana at the 2022 Chennai Olympiad moved up 16 places on the chess ladder from 136 to 120 in only their second international outing.

The death of Queen Elizabeth II brings to an end the longest ‘reign’ of a monarch in British history.

The wide range of films screened at the Toronto International Film Festival each year often means that debut filmmakers are sometimes more established ones, sometimes even exploring similar things thematically.

Hands up if you ended the week feeling inspired, grateful and are ready for another beautiful week of healthy habits.

I tell the story of Tony Judt. Tony Judt was a writer on recent world history whom I greatly admired. 

Introduction Last week’s column used the World Bank’s systematic country diagnostic, SCD, of Guyana, to unravel the embedded obstacles to the country’s lack of inclusive development along with the grim persistence of poverty up to the advent of its windfall oil finds in 2015.

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.

Burning eyes, anxious fingers and what feels like small knots on the middle of my forehead are all signs that I need a digital detox.

By Meshach Pierre A man motions to a bush island on the edge of the savanna.

For many years I have been gradually collecting poems written about Guyana or by Guyanese from as early as possible to the present day for the purpose of preparing and publishing an entirely new and comprehensive Anthology of Guyanese Poetry.

Michael Thomas, 35, Indigenous People’s activist, guitarist and dancer, is the toshao of Aishalton Village in the South Rupununi, chairman of the South Rupununi Development Council (SRDC) and an executive member of the National Toshaos Council (NTC), things he never dreamed of becoming. 

The Guyana team played admirably at the 2022 Chess Olympiad in Chennai, India and it’s time for some reflections.