Stabroek Weekend

Growing up, Ellen Smith imagined herself being a mechanical engineer; she was always fascinated with fixing her bicycle wheels and always wanted to know more.

Maybe it was swimming morning, noon and afternoon at Acquero Landing, in Region One, or running the dam linking Huradiah with Acquero alongside siblings and cousins, or dashing across the savannahs during the dry season and then swimming the Moruca River to get to Cabucalli.

As part of the celebration of Indigenous Heritage Month, a group of Akawaio people, including children, of Imbaimadai in Region 7 (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) spent the day on September 17 sharing folklore, soaking up nature and visiting petroglyphs and the Maipuri Waterfall.

By Nikita Blair If anyone had taken me aside last month and asked me what came to mind when I heard the phrase “gothic horror” last month, I would have given them a very narrow description.

The commercial banks have been coming under pressure from the business community for not taking on more risk by extending credit to small- and medium-scale businesses, as well as start-ups.

Demerara Distilleries Ltd. The early 1990s saw a new player in the Guyanese sweet drink marketplace: Demerara Distilleries Ltd.

Canadian author Miriam Toews drew heavily from personal family tragedies for her 2014 novel “All My Puny Sorrows”.

As golden afternoon transmutes into silver evening and then into velvet darkness fretted by stars I sit to read and think and dream.

Introduction Last week’s introductory column dealt principally with the proximate origins of the present effort to re-address the Buxton Proposal.

With the elections less than a month away, here is some background information pertaining to the incorporation of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) as a private company.

As a trainer to women of all different fitness levels, my eyes automatically roll to the back of my head every time I hear a woman say she believes lifting weights will make her look like a man. 

October 5 will mark the 29th anniversary of the return of free and fair elections to Guyana in 1992, and the first attempt since then to restore the dark days of election rigging.

Some things you need to speak about more than once.  Hence this column today in SO IT GO, which ran many months ago in this space Stabroek News has generously given me a long time now to vent my feelings.

Initially, cousins Nevlette Steele and Amanda Walcott wanted to start a business selling products for natural hair and while they still hope to get there one day, they have since established Queen Qarah, a skincare business through which they market their own soaps and a few other products purchased from small businesses.

“I looking fuh a new job because I had to just leave the job in the market because I didn’t able with what you have to go through there.

Two of the best films that played at TIFF this year felt like self-conscious purgings of personal demons from the filmmakers.

Family dramas across generations, continents and genres were a recurring preoccupation at the Toronto International Film Festival this year.

Step forward with your left foot (count 1) Move your right to your left foot (uh) count 2 Step backward with your right foot (count 3) Move your left foot to your right foot (uh) count 4 Now repeat these steps to the rhythm in your head as your tastebuds recall the dance of enjoyment of the Pol Sambol (coconut sambol) you just ate.

I celebrated 32 years around the sun last weekend. I consider it to be a massive blessing considering the state of the world and how many lives have been upended either due to the pandemic, increased natural disaster or political and economic turmoil over the past year.