Stabroek Weekend

Grace Simon, now the community liaison with ExxonMobil Guyana, says her passion for helping people is what motivated her to pursue studies in areas that help people.

One of the prerogatives of age to a discerning eye is you understand people better.

“When the pandemic came it was already a struggle for me because the elections was there and people was not coming.

In a perfect world the pen would always be mightier than the sword and intellect would always defeat brute force.

The University of Guyana’s Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Physics and Statistics will be launching a lecture series on undergraduate research in Mathematics and Statistics by Professor Balgobin Nandram.

In the case of the Attorney General v Richardson, the then Attorney General, Basil Williams, challenged in the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) the ruling of the Guyana Court of Appeal striking down as unconstitutional the provision of the Constitution that limited a President to two terms.

By Nigel Westmaas In November 1916, the British Guiana East Indian Association (BGEIA) was established in New Amsterdam.

A spanking new, world class fitness facility, Space Gym 2.0 recently opened its doors on Mandela Avenue, about a mile east of the ‘old’ location and many new faced would be gainers have begun to frequent the place.

They Came in Ships They came in ships From far across the seas.

I checked my watch during “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and was surprised to find that only thirty minutes remained.

Introduction This week’s column and the ones immediately following are devoted to linking the two areas into which I have codified  my presentation thus far.

Over the years, on the occasion of Mother’s Day, I’ve shared something of my late Mother with you – from her influence on my sense of self to the quarrels we’ve had trying to make her a perfect cup of tea.

As much as I have gone on in the past about the importance of putting boundaries in place to protect one’s mental state, for the first time ever, two weeks ago, the opportunity presented itself where I had to be explicit about them.

Some may say that Dr Indhira Harry was predestined to become a mental health practitioner but for her it was really witnessing the results of the holistic treatment of a person’s mind in the final stages of her studies that drew her to the field rather than growing up with psychiatrist Dr Bhiro Harry as a father.

Now in her 27th year at the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), analytical chemist Sharon Sue-Hang-Baksh has climbed the corporate ladder at the company, where she is now a board member with responsibility for technical services and holds the prestigious title of Master Blender.

Since Moses Nagamootoo ‘unfriended’ me from Facebook at the end of the elections’ crisis, I have been unable to trace those activities that he may choose to make public to FB friends.

The spirit grows weary with the weight of woe in the world at large.

Introduction Today’s column starts with a brief acknowledgement of my completion of the indicated “considered critique” of ExxonMobil’s performance in relation to global climate change and energy transition.

A Lloyd N De Arts production with the very meaningful title, Unmasked, was performed on April 21.