Stabroek Weekend

The musical family: Leon Couchman with his wife, children and grandchildren
The musical family: Leon Couchman with his wife, children and grandchildren

Leon Couchman is on a mission to preserve local music

Self-taught musician and leader of the Couchman Family Band, 66-year-old Leon Couchman is hoping that music produced locally could attract corporate sponsorship in order to preserve Indigenous and other Guyanese rhythms as he has lost much of his own compositions because of production, copyright and sponsorship issues.

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Lasy Update: 945.38                              Movement: -0.0% Current Update: 945.38                         YTD Movement: 36.642%LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index remained unchanged during the third period of trading in September 2021.

WB Yeats

Defining beautiful and enduring poetry

Among School Children                  I I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn to cipher and to sing, To study reading-books and history, To cut and sew, be neat in everything In the best modern way—the children’s eyes In momentary wonder stare upon A sixty-year-old smiling public man.

Recognising parallels in injustice

I go back and forth trying to understand why Guyanese at home and abroad find it so easy to latch onto movements like Black Lives Matter, which originate in North America and the West with so much zeal and passion but find it difficult to draw similar comparisons to and act the same when incidents that bear similarities happen right here at home.

From "All My Puny Humans" (Image: Courtesy of TIFF)

TIFF 2021 Dispatch: Women on the verge

To compelling, if varied, results, three films screened at the recently concluded TIFF2021 explored similar themes of women in crisis struggling to acclimate to the systems around them – Canadian family-drama “All My Puny Sorrows”, the Brazilian horror film “Medusa”, and the Danish drama “As In Heaven”.

Myra Pierre-Moore

‘I think I have surpassed my dream’

Coming from Koriabo, a riverain Warrau community of no more than 200 people at the time “with very limited access to education” in the Mabaruma sub-region, Myra Pierre-Moore, 51, the Learning Resource Development Officer at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) says that as a child she never dreamt she would become the educator and professional she is today.

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