Stabroek Weekend

Listening to her grandparents, uncles and residents in Craig, East Bank Demerara discuss the political events of the day in the family shop during her early years, Sara Bharrat, 33, learned how they took part in community life, how neighbours helped one another during the strife of the 60s, how “they made out” under Forbes Burnham, and so she developed an interest for politics. 

“I was very excited to get this job because it was long I was looking, you know.

Introduction Today’s column wraps-up my highlighting of the role of governance of Guyana’s  emerging oil and gas sector as an indicator of its prevailing condition.

Last Update: 1,797.960                        Movement: -0.249% Current Update: 1,793.477                  YTD Movement: 74.328% LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index fell 0.249% during the third period of trading in June 2022.

A quick Google search of “appetite suppressant” offers a plethora of options to explore.

Recent discussions surrounding the cost recovery provision in the oil contract and the possible renegotiation served as motivation for this column.

In the summer of 2011, I felt deeply honoured when I was asked to deliver the Inaugural Roy AK Heath Lecture at the Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick.

It was reported on June 15 that the Chair of GECOM, Justice Claudette Singh, opposed an investigation by GECOM into the elections proposed by Opposition nominated members.

We live in harrowing times – there is no doubt about that. 

For a number of years, the Guyana Chess Federation’s (GCF) most magnanimous sponsors for tournaments were Keishar’s Enterprise and Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL).

In my younger years growing up in Guyana, I had the daily school-boy experience of travelling from Hague, on West Demerara by bus to Vreed-en- Hoop to catch the ferryboat to Georgetown. 

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

At the New Fire Festival in Trinidad and Tobago in 2019, agro processor Andrew Campbell, 32, who was already involved in dehydrating local fruits for snacks, was encouraged to get involved in chocolate making by a Trinidadian social activist and chocolatier and so began his sojourn into the chocolate making cottage industry.

By Claudia Tomlinson Abstract Many notable individuals of African-Caribbean descent became activists for racial justice in Britain following migration in the 1940s and 1950s.

Food for the Poor (Guyana) Inc recently celebrated its 31st anniversary of service to the poor and vulnerable in Guyana.

Ever so often I would observe clients and other gym goers, running on fumes or dragging through a workout simply because of the lack of fuel in their reserves.

Recently Vice President Jagdeo proposed the government’s plan to provide part-time employment to thousands of Guyanese.

Introduction Today’s column begins with my wrap-up of last week’s column.

The most famous love poem ever written, with the possible exception of the Song of Solomon, is a poem entitled ‘Ad Pyrrham’ by the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, better known as Horace.

The Leader of the Opposition could not have been under surveillance by policemen in full regalia, including masks, following his vehicle on motorcycles.