Stabroek Weekend

Eleven local chess players competed last Sunday in the Jamaica Online Open Tournament.

Almost three years after her home’s completion, a single mother is unable to move into it because of a mix up with measurement of her land, preventing her from building a fence around her home as she would be doing so on her neighbour’s land.

One of the subjects of study developed by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) that has been slowly gaining ground is Drama, which is offered at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) level as Theatre Arts and at the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) level as a part of the Performing Arts.

Have you ever questioned silently, or even out loud, how or why some of your mates from school look much more aged than you do?

Introduction Because of its centrality to the query — as to whether projected oil revenues are likely to be large enough and sufficiently stable to finance successfully income transfers of  the magnitude and stability required to alleviate substantially income poverty in Guyana — I need to explore more fully the workings of Government Take under the ruling PSA.

Just as Guyana is beginning to emerge out of the Covid darkness, the Omicron variant has been first detected in South Africa but almost simultaneously discovered in other countries such as Israel, Belgium and other African countries.

When I worked in the sugar industry I remember once discussing a problem with a young and junior colleague.

The theatrical poster for “King Richard” introduces us to an important discrepancy.

On Tuesday, November 30, Barbados will officially become a Republic. November 30 is also Barbados’ Independence Day and this year marks 55 years of self-government.

I have thrown myself into the Christmas preparation madness early this year.

Advocacy, volunteerism, youth work, television production and engagement in a number of extracurricular activities including sports and culture in her youth, prepared Andrea Bryan-Garner for the challenges of giving hope to herself and a group of mothers of children born with multiple disabilities following the Zika virus outbreak in January 2016.

Raiza Khan had started on a totally different career path when through volunteerism she found her niche, made the switch to psychology and today has opened her own practice counselling individuals, couples, children, doing group therapy.

As I get older, the attractions of foreign travel and the lures of encountering new places and fresh faces are rapidly fading. 

During a recent trip to Ghana, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said that Guyana, with its small population and limited labour force, would reach full employment soon.

Introduction Today’s column and the next three provide a wrap-up commentary of aspects of the Buxton Proposal, which I believe have been somewhat misconstrued; whether by design or otherwise, in various public and private exchanges.

Last Sunday four-year-old Kiana Amaya Niles lost her almost one year battle with brain cancer when she took her final breath in the paediatric ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) surrounded by her mom and other relatives.

Essequibo busman Kass, who drove one of the big buses on the Essequibo route when I was going to school in Georgetown, was fond of playing a game with passengers who would disembark after a trip and come around to the front of the bus to pay Kass their fare and get any change owing. 

Five years ago, Daniel James decided to turn his attention to a trade his father was already involved in — furniture making.

St Lucian poet, editor and librarian John Robert Lee uses a continuing email thread to disseminate information about the arts in the Caribbean and, very importantly, sustain a dialogue among the range of West Indian writers, dramatists, artists, and critics.