Stabroek Weekend

Guyana’s finest chess players, including a list of imaginative juniors, will compete in the 2022 National Blitz Online Chess Championship on Saturday February 5 from 2 pm.

If there’s been a recurring trend in the American world-premieres at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, it has been the number of films that feel explicitly bound to the contemporary social issues they are unearthing.

At this time of the year, as is customary, the gyms are crowded.

Cowherd and Weaving Girl (ancient traditional Chinese love story) Long ago, there was a boy, clever, diligent and honest.

“I looked at her and she was the most beautiful thing I have seen.

The crisis which emerged after the Russian deployment of troops on its border with Ukraine in recent weeks has led to diplomatic discourses between the United States, Russia and NATO.

Part of our Guyana history that has vanished in recent times was the era of the broad, squat steamship, the Queriman, which was at one time in operation as the ferry between Georgetown and Vreed-en-Hoop on the opposite bank of the Demerara River.

Yesu Persaud was a friend for more than 50 years. He was always helpful, and thoughtful in his help and advice, to my wife and myself.

Introduction Today’s column will advance the notion of happenstance, which I had introduced in last week’s, as representing the most apt explanation for Guyana’s revealed creaming curve of world-class recoverable petroleum discoveries.

What’s Cooking is a series in which I answer questions and share advice about food and cooking that you may have but are too shy to ask, or, as in many cases, questions that you do ask.

This past week has been awkward. My sleeping patterns have been misplaced and it felt like I subjected myself to an obscene amount of unnecessary screen time out of boredom.

US-based Guyanese celebrity stylist Ceshanna Andrea Anthony whose work has been featured on American television shows “Love & Hip-Hop” and the “Wendy Williams Show” is preparing to conduct a two-day ‘Everything Lace Master Class’.

As a child Jamal Lewis always knew that he was leaning towards a career in the science field as he performed excellently in Mathematics and Sciences, and while initially he concluded that he would become a medical doctor a light bulb moment came late in high school as he was watching a CBS 60 Minutes feature on tissue engineering.

Although he recently played his last football tournament, if Vurlon Mills has his way he will able to help future generations use the sport to transform their lives.

The editorial of Stabroek News and the letter by Clement Rohee in yesterday’s edition provide two of the most excellent tributes to the late Yesu Persaud that have been written.

Last week’s column (‘Macroeconomic issues relating to the NRF’) made the point that there are many similarities between the Act of 2019 and 2021, but it is the withdrawal rule which separates the two Acts in a major way.

Introduction This week’s column continues to advance the discussion concerning the analytical significance of Pillar A that I started last week.

Love of sport is woven into the fabric of my life.

By Nigel Westmaas “Riots are the language of the unheard” –              Martin Luther King “The people are not rioting.