Stabroek Weekend

September is celebrated as Amerindian Heritage Month in Guyana and there is an unfathomable depth of priceless heritage to celebrate.

The 2021 FIDE Online Olympiad has reached the playoff division stage with the top chess teams of the world qualifying for the quarter final stage of the tournament, which concludes September 15.

With the new COVID-19 measures mandating only vaccinated people entry, a gym may be one of the safest places to be at the moment in Guyana.

“It was a trying 12 years but you know if I had to do it all over again I would do it because even though she never walk, never really talk and you do everything for her she was still such a beautiful child.

Introduction In Apocalypse Never, Michael Shellenberger displays great personal courage in admitting to his intellectual dishonesty up till then.

Editor’s note: The following is a reproduction of an editorial published simultaneously in over 200 international journals to urge world leaders to cut heat-trapping emissions in order to avoid “catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse.”

Lasy Update: 944.51                                 Movement: 0.654% Current Update: 950.69                            YTD Movement: 37.41%                                  LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index rose 0.654% during the first period of trading in September 2021.

What’s Cooking is a series in which I answer questions and share advice about food and cooking that you have but may be too shy to ask.

2020 was such a gruelling and exhausting year. Loss felt constant.

Observing the way in which the APNU+AFC and the PPP/C approach several key policies indicates an emerging political dichotomy in Guyana.

After he left primary school at Aishalton, South Rupununi, Tony James AA aka Chief, Kokoi, Toshao and Chief of Chiefs, was not certain what he wanted to do in life apart from riding horses.

Guyanese Oneeka Williams’ journey to becoming the first Black woman to train in Urologic Surgery at the Lahey Clinic, in Burlington, Massachusetts, in the United States was filled with twists and turns that she now uses as an inspiration for others, especially the young, as in her own words she is on a mission to “reshape how we think” as she “swings for the fences” and encourages others to do the same.

by Stanley Greaves It is with great regret that I have learnt about the death of Angold Thompson as a result of a fire in his home.

Book review: Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse In early August, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) released an updated report on scientists’ current understanding of the state of global warming and its implications for our present and future.

With no allowance to buy presents for loved ones when their birthdays came around, Hema Persaud began making her own cards and eventually established Handmade by Hema last July.

A column in this vein appeared previously in this spot in the hope it might propel others to contribute to the subject.

Treasurer of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Davion Mars has said that over-the-board contact chess tournaments will begin in October.

In my column today I simply give two poems which I love and especially recall at a time when the world is awry – the pandemic unrelenting and tenacious and climate change unstoppably undermining all foundations – without those in authority seeming to know what to do or take decisive action as they interminably squabble.

The Cinderella story entered European tradition in the 17th century, but records date back to as early as Egypt BC.