My father, John Simon de Freitas, a committed Guyanese patriot, was born on 24 September, 1940, the eldest of three children in Georgetown, then British Guiana, into a thoroughly Portuguese commercial background.
Russia’s long-expected land, sea and air invasion of Ukraine on Thursday last is to be condemned.
Navigating the world of business as a woman can be frustrating and there are times when one reaches the point of being burnt out.
Over the years, Myrtle Richards has worked to help others who could have fallen by the wayside to gain an education and life skills.
A sister recently went through a divorce. Below she writes about part of the experience and also gives some sound advice.
Introduction Today’s column continues with a presentation of Envision Research’s modelling of ExxonMobil’s seeming turnaround away from the process of zombification, as I have explained this term.
JuLo’s Enterprises, a stationery and ice cream shop in Grove, East Bank Demerara, last weekend donated two FIDE- approved tournament-sized chess sets and one FIDE-approved DGT chess clock to the St Ignatius Secondary School in Lethem, Region Nine.
The idea that lifting light weights for many reps instead of lifting as heavy as possible in the 8-12 rep range will get you toned, is perhaps the biggest myth in the entire fitness industry, apart from the thinking that doing crunches will enable you to get a six-pack.
Get Down Ye Angels Get down ye angels from the heights.
My heart has grown heavy in recent times as I have contemplated what seems to be the gradual fading of the dream of West Indian unity.
In writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest feature, “Licorice Pizza”, a warm and fuzzy preoccupation with the past overwhelms the languorous manoeuvrings of its 134-minute running-time.
By Nigel Westmaas In February, 1916, former US President Col. Theodore Roosevelt paid an unofficial visit to British Guiana (Guyana).
On My Plate (OMP) is a series in which I share with you what I’m eating.
The journey to officially starting therapy and seeking out mental health care can be a long and frightening one.
Women generally shy away from talking about their vaginas and are ashamed at times to seek help when all is not well with that important organ of their body.
When Graham Atkinson, of Santa Rosa, Moruca, dropped out of the government’s hinterland scholarship programme after the first term in second form at Central High School in Georgetown, it may not have looked like the likely start for a man who has worn many hats, including that of social activist, broadcaster and former deputy toshao.
The spectacular possibilities that await Guyana were revealed at the recently concluded oil and gas conference.
Introduction As indicated last week, because of space constraints, this week’s column begins with my introduction of a Schedule that I could not have presented then.
The saddest sight in sport is to observe a marvelous athlete not so much go into decline as suddenly burn-out before one’s eyes.
Red Rising 1. When the earth was made when the wheels of the sky were being fashioned when my songs were first heard in the voice of the cool of the owl hillaby Soufriere and Kilimanjaro were standing towards me with water with fire at the centre of the air there in the keel of the blue the son of my song, father-giver, the sun/sum walks the four corners of the magnet, caught in the wind, blind in the eye of his own hurricane and the trees on the mountain be- come mine: living eye of my branches of bone; flute where is my hope hope where is my psalter my children wear masks dancing towards me the mews of their origen earth so that this place which is called mine which will never know that cold scalpel of skull, hill of dearth brain corals ignite and ignore it and that this place which is called now which will never again glow: coal balloon altracite: into cross- roads of hollows black spot of my life: jah blue spot of my life: love yellow spot of my life: iises red spot of my dream that still flowers flowers flowers let us give thanks when the earth was made when the sky first spoke with the voice of the rain/bow when the wind gave milk to its music when the suns of my morning walked out of their shallow thrill/dren 2.
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