Stabroek Weekend

Last Update: 1,713.736                                  Movement: 2.626% Current Update: 1,758.746                            YTD Movement: 70.952%                                     LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index rose 2.626% during the fourth period of trading in March 2022.

If the headline confuses you, don’t let it, I’ll explain. A few years ago when I first saw the name of this dish on social media, I tilted my head to one side in confusion.

Privilege is blinding. Sometimes it is hard to recognise because those steeped in it embrace it as a natural way of life, and expect everyone else to just accept its inescapable chaos and unfairness as realities.

Nine years ago businesswoman Han Granger-Gaskin gave birth to her fourth child and hours after his birth she was told that from all indications he had Down syndrome.

Despite her professional background, Dhanmattie Sohai likes people to know she is a country girl for whom study, work and volunteerism are key parts of her life.

Teacher Monix Hetemeyer, who started the Teachers’ Initiative Online Programme to help engage students and support educators while schools were closed owing to COVID-19 restrictions, is navigating a new normal after having her leg amputated in the aftermath of a car crashing into the restaurant where she was dining with a friend on the evening of February 20, in New Amsterdam, Berbice.

The High Commission of Canada last Wednesday hosted a screening of the Canadian movie “Je m’appelle humain” (My Name is Human) in celebration of the International Day of La Francophonie, observed on March 20.

By Gillian Smith, FAO Representative The school feeding programme in Guyana dates as far back as forty (40) years ago and continues to positively impact the nutrition and health of children and adolescents receiving nursery, primary or secondary education which represents some 48.6% of the total student population in the country.

In this unbrotherly time I wish to invoke again the name of Voltaire.

Today, we celebrate the magnificent return of face-to-face chess in pictures with the hosting of the Gaico Grand Prix Tournament at the National Stadium, Providence.

Later this evening, the 2021 film season will come to an official close when the winners of the Academy Awards are announced.

The visit of US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Barbara Feinstein, to Guyana, and her wide-ranging discussions, mark an important step in the evolving relations between the US and Guyana.

“It is really heartbreaking. Sometimes you are feeling that you are the only one facing this and the court is being unfair and you are being treated terribly but there are so many other women who are going through the same thing.

[Guyana Where & What, Gem Madhoo-Nascimento, Ed., Georgetown: G.E.M.S. Inc., n.d.,

Introduction Today’s column brings together  the  manifest debt deformations of ExxonMobil [its zombification] on the one hand; and other deformations more directly related to the firm’s culture, its management performance, social and cultural interactions in the wider society, and consequently its reputational risk exposure. 

‘Age is just a number’ is a cliche, but it applies when it comes to working out; age is no excuse to not have some sort of fitness regimen.

It is the third week of Lent – the 40-day period leading up to Easter.

If a young Heather Morris had her way, she would have become an artist, a pianist or even a lawyer but with guidance from her father she walked into the medical field and today as a dermatologist she is where she belongs.

Growing up with two matriarchs in the home taught Lisa Thompson, 53, a counsellor, social worker, researcher, administrator and artist, the value of being independent through education, acquiring a life skill and of integrity in spite of many of life’s challenges.