Stabroek Weekend

Five schools in regions Two and Six along with the University of Guyana recently benefitted from donations of art material, science and sports equipment, and textbooks among other items, estimated at more than $8 million.

This column is the third in a series of essays exploring various aspects of the Guyanese financial system.

Jules Rimet, the French visionary who founded the World Cup, aimed for a rapprochement of nations through football.

“Dune” has been built up as a potential turning point of 2021 cinema since its premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

Introduction Today’s column has two primary goals. The first is to provide non-specialist readers, after five successive weekly columns, with a brief re-cap of the distinguishing elements of the Buxton Proposal.

Guyana is and has always been a primary producer. During its years of Independence, although there was some economic growth, Guyana was unable to significantly diversify its economy by, firstly, adding value to what it produced and, secondly, advancing the process of industrialisation.

Throughout my childhood, my mother would cook ‘greens,’ like cabbage, bora and pak-choi, which would be combined with rice or roti for lunch and/or dinner.

“I agree that when you grow older that you have to somehow get past your childhood hardships and just live because if you hold on to your childhood trauma then you might never be able to live in the true sense.

There was a very rare event in western theatre and an important advancement for Caribbean literature when a new opera, “The Knife of Dawn” (2016), opened at the Royal Opera House in London on October 24, 2020.

In a vibrant democracy elections should be a cause for celebration, an ever welcome occasion regularly marking the successful outcome of what in any country’s history has always been a long struggle to overcome authoritarian, and often brutal, rule.

At the beginning of the month, I shared with you a Sri Lankan side dish – Pol (Coconut) Sambol, and what I’d promised then was to try their Pol (Coconut) Roti that I discovered in my research, and share with you.

Every time I experience any form of racism, it is always “the apology” that manages to drive the knife further into the wound.

Sandy Shobha Maeck is a mother of four with a story of resilience and perseverance that weaves through the terror of domestic violence and a relationship based on lies to happiness.

As an eight-year-old, Beverly Ann McFarlane killed mosquitos at every opportunity she got, placed them into match boxes, counted and examined them—a harbinger of what lay ahead for the now microscopist.

The fundamental political problem in Guyana, as has been repeatedly emphasized in these columns and by others over the years, is the struggle for ethno-political dominance. 

Samuel Johnson, the great 18th Century English man of letters, is the shrewdest teacher on the human condition I know.

Introduction As indicated in last week’s column,  today’s  begins with the reproduction of the list of ten key references to guide inquiring readers who may need further information on the practice of cash transfers as a poverty policy intervention tool.

By Nigel Westmaas Introduction & Context In January 1938, to mark the centenary of emancipation from slavery, Joseph Ruhoman, a well-known journalist and a founder of the British Guiana East Indian Association (BGEIA), published an article titled “A Negro-Indian Combine” in the Conventionist, the publication of the Negro Progress Convention (established in 1922).

Pamper Me Kids Spa has been creating waves in Linden, particularly as a place to celebrate birthdays; so huge is the buzz that even adults are trying to get in on the revitalizing spa packages.