Stabroek Weekend

Anya-Taylor Joy appears about 20 minutes into Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho” as the savvy and confident Sandy.

Not long from now, the gyms will be filled with newbies seeking to trans-form their physiques, but only some of them will stay the course.

Last Update: 974.676                                    Movement: 3.053% Current Update: 1,004.435                           YTD Movement: 45.177%                                    LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index jumped 3.053% during the third period of trading in November, 2021.

This week begins a new series in Tastes Like Home. It is called, On My Plate (OMP).

I don’t remember “the talk” that was given to me when I got my period.

Elizabeth Sue-Alert was doing a Zoom interview when she was interrupted by a timid child’s voice.

Becoming pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic was not what Cianna Persaud had in mind.

Elicia Noble-Lashley appears to be supremely conscious of the fact that people eat with their eyes first.

  Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed, 464 pp. SolarisI love cosmic horror.

It is said that science and poetry do not mix. It is said that science is down to earth and poetry is up in the clouds.

“It is hard to find a place to rent in this country when you single and have children.

The art of diplomacy has long been enhanced by art itself.

The previous column on October 31 (`Bank profit and interest rate: the Brassington thesis’) noted that fee incomes comprise the third largest source of income for the overall commercial banking sector in Guyana.

The amendments to the elections’ laws proposed by the Government through the Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill are woefully inadequate.

Introduction I began the discussion on the petroleum metrics and finances of the Buxton Proposal by observing that the only material change to the  data previously utilized was the computation of Government Take by the IDB in their Technical Note back in August 2020, entitled ‘Traversing a Slippery Slope: Guyana’s Oil Opportunity.’

Can you believe it? 2022 is mere weeks away. A new year is fast approaching and as customary I know many of us have not fulfilled some of the planned resolutions for the current year, myself included.

We first meet Will Sharpe’s version of Louis Wain, painter and eccentric in the early 20th century, as an old man (a well-aged Benedict Cumberbatch) gazing into space as images of a somewhat younger Wain walks solemnly through the street in funereal attire with a group of women.

Seeing clothing by Trinidadian fashion designer Meiling gracing the pages of Harper’s Bazaar US this week served as a gentle reminder of the soulfulness that is the Caribbean aesthetic.

Stating the obvious – times are hard, and money is in short supply.