Stabroek Weekend

The overshadowing of someone else’s feelings whether consciously or unconsciously with the concept of luring the other party to be optimistic is called toxic positivity.

A programme manager with the Delegation of the European Union to Guyana, Jude B Da Silva has ended up right where she dreamed she would when she was a teenager in Santa Rosa, Moruca, Region One.

As the countdown of days continues before Guyana enters the competitive arena of the 2022 Chess Olympiad in Chennai, India, it may be worthwhile to look at the compositions of other teams.

By Neville J. Bissember In February 1999, as the second round of negotiations on a successor Agreement to the Lome Convention advanced – the name Cotonou had not as yet been determined – the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group and the European Union (EU) travelled to Senegal to hold those discussions, honoring the tradition of an ACP Member State playing host to a session. 

It is nice to see that the Guyana Stock Exchange (GSE) has a new and improved website.

Introduction Today’s column wraps-up my presentation of the  call  for a National Oil Company, NOC, as a policy choice and action  the Authorities should commit to by the mid-2020s.

Drama is among the most misunderstood and most abused subjects in secondary schools in Guyana. 

“When I see the land and saw where it was, I felt like instantly a part of me died.

It is not too late to shed some extra weight for this ‘summer’. With

“There is hope for us all.” That line acts as a coda of sorts for the final sequence in the newly released comedy “Mrs Harris Goes to Paris,” where Lesley Manville plays a widowed cleaning lady whose yearning for a couture Christian Dior dress takes her to Paris and on a string of adventures far beyond her dreams.

I have always loved libraries. Nearly 70 years have passed since I went to Cambridge and first visited the Seeley Historical Library near the Senate House.

Universal adult suffrage, with its promise of Independence and social justice, gave rise to popular participation of workers and farmers in active politics.

There are certain fruits that offer more enjoyment than simply eating as is.

Feminism, over the years, has become a useful marketing tool for many women-led businesses and companies in general.

Very early in her life, Amlata Persaud distinguished herself academically, topping the country at the Secondary Schools Entrance Examinations, the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations in 1999 and later at the GCE ‘A’ Levels examinations.

By Nigel Westmaas                  One of the main features of Guyana’s historical record is its sluggish or unmotivated research and reference about the country’s mainstream historical figures and/or protest movements and individual protests.

June 28th, 2022 is a day that will remain etched in my memory forever.

Introduction Today’s column and next week’s will address the first of six broad strategic policy choices or actions that I propose the Authorities satisfy before the mid-2020s.

The Alliance for Change (AFC), the junior partner to A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) in the alliance, APNU+AFC, which formed the government of Guyana from 2015 to 2020 and which now forms the main Opposition, has hinted at a press conference on Friday last, reported in SN yesterday, that it will not renew the Cummingsburg Accord (Accord), its secret agreement with APNU, which comes to an end in December.