Stabroek Weekend

My tutor at Cambridge, Professor Nick Hammond, authority on the history of ancient Macedonia and on the life of Alexander the Great, used to coach me on what he called “exercises of the mind.”

2022 is quickly coming to an end, the calendar is about to flip to September in a few days and many of us are feeling burnt out.

Even before the title characters in Clio Barnard’s “Ali and Ava” meet, a brief musical montage early on binds them together in moments of isolation.

For a chess championship, the attire is a bit unusual: everyone is wearing swim trunks and goggles.

Introduction The list of topics that I had proposed some weeks ago indicating what I intended to revisit going forward, along with an updating of my recommendations on these, identifies the Buxton Proposal as being the next topic.

“But mommy, I don’t like this bag. You say you would buy the other  one,” an obviously distressed primary school girl said to her mother on the jampacked Regent Street pavement.

Ships that met                     I looked up one day And in he walked A tall man with seeing Eyes.

To eat Sada roti, we traditionally tear it or cut it into quarters.

I feel scared most times when people call me a feminist and it’s not that the movement frightens me.

Having gone through what she has described as “a number of heartbreaks”, including acting in the best interests of her daughters and separating from them while they were young, and being in an abusive relationship, life coach Annalisa Bahadur believes she is in a position to help people heal from the many heartbreaks they may have had to face and in doing so she strategically focuses on men.

Almost a year ago Davindra Sukhu moved from being a healthy working father of two when he was diagnosed with COVID-19 as well as Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) which resulted in him becoming paralysed and only able to move his fingers.

By Rae Wiltshire Rhagu, born Mangal Persaud Rhagunandan, grabbed a pen and paper and started to write.

Samuel Johnson, that great man of letters and heavyweight of good sense in eighteenth century England, commonly said the people whom we should most beware in the world are those who constantly insist on finding fault, those whose clouds are never lit by silver linings, those who everlastingly “refuse to be pleased.”

The judiciary, along with the executive and legislature, is one of the three constitutional pillars of the state.

Introduction Last week’s column asserted that, logically, any serious critique of Guyana’s Natural Resource Fund, NRF, ought to be pursued at two hierarchical levels of abstraction.

Most of us were meeting again face-to-face for the first time after 47 years or more, and we didn’t know what to expect of each other even though the majority of us had been chatting via Facebook Messenger for over a year and we had bonded online.

Public theatre continues to return to the Guyanese stage and there have been different types of productions in an interesting variety of venues.

According to well established Hollywood logic, any movie about a rule-breaking action hero needs to add nuance to his character by giving him a wife and a daughter to contextualise his character arc and provide some essential emotional robustness.

“I love my mother. But then I could say I dislike my mother.