Stabroek Weekend

After a three-month grind of cardio, lifting weights and dieting for my last competition, I decided to take a mini vacation.

The statistics from the 2020 and 2021 online Chess Olympiads are taken from two reports prepared by Guyanese Loris Nathoo, who was player/ captain of the 2020 team, and player of the 2021 team.

Lasy Update: 812.84                        Movement: 6.819% Current Update:868.27                    YTD Movement: 25.50%                               LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index climbed 6.819% during the fourth period of trading in August 2021.

More than a decade ago, I wrote a column about the confusion between a sponge cake (which is what we call it in Guyana) and a pound cake.

The act of being vulnerable is a daunting one. It is one that invites waves of fear, a sense of out-of-placeness and magnifies the possibility of it being weaponized.

“We need the vaccines for our safety…,” says Canje, Berbice resident Hakila Husain.

Best known as “Toshao” in the village of Kwebanna, on the Waini River, even though he is no longer the office holder, Paul Pierre has given his youth and adult life to community and political activism while he took the path of self-employment to achieve his objective of giving public service to his home in Koriabo and adopted home of Kwebanna.

Creative from the Outside, which is located on the West Coast Demerara, was established in November last year after jasper Medas finally listened to a friend who had been telling him again and again that he was creative and had a lot of potential, having seen his work.

The Sunday Stabroek’s editorial last Sunday, “Democratic values,” stated: “A more predictable viewpoint which he [Cheddi Jagan] never relinquished was that class in Guyana was more important than race, a somewhat tenuous assumption at best and plain inaccurate at worst.”

By Kyla Quinn and Palak Mehta Viruses make us sick when they invade our cells.

There has always been competition in the Guyanese aerated drink market.

Riddym Ravings (the mad woman’s poem) De fus time dem kar me go a Bellevue was fi di dactar an de lanlord aperate an tek de radio outa mi head troo dem sieze the bed weh did a gi mi cancer an mek mi talk to nobady ah di same night wen dem trow mi out fi no pay de rent mi haffi sleep outa door wid de Channel One riddym box an de DJ fly up eena mi head mi hear im a play seh   Eh, Eh, No feel no way Town is a place dat ah really kean stay Dem kudda – ribbit mi han Eh – ribbit mi toe Mi waan go a country go look mango   fah wen hungry mek King St pavement bubble an dally in front a mi yeye an mi foot start wanda falla fly to de garbage pan eena de chinaman backlat dem nearly chap aff mi hand eena de butcha shap fi de piece a ratten poke ah de same time de mawga gal in front a mi drap de laas piece a ripe banana an mi – ben dung – pick i up – an nyam i a dat time dem grab mi an kar mi back a Bellevue dis time de dactar an de landlord aperate an tek de radio plug outa mi head den sen mi out, seeh mi alright but – as ah ketch back outa street ah push een back de plug an ah hear mi DJ still a play, seh   Eh, Eh, no feel no way town is a place dat ah really kean stay dem kudda – ribbit me han eh – ribbit me toe mi waan go a country go look mango [.

As part of Guyana’s national team, I competed at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Bodybuilding and Fitness Championship last weekend in El Salvador, where I placed second in the Men’s Physique class.

Twelve players are representing Guyana at the 2021 Online Chess Olympiad (Rapid), which began on Friday and ends on September 15.

Introduction Today’s column continues with my presentation of the previously announced series of columns, which introduces three publications that, as I indicated earlier, have had a profound impact on both my understanding of, and insights into today’s highly volatile dynamic in unfolding global energy markets.

Okay.  Going in, today I’m speaking up for Pit Bull dogs everywhere who have been labelled as dangerous  creatures given to indiscriminate biting of persons close to them. 

It is necessary to repeat again and again that in the background of all our lives there exists a fundamental and dominating lie.

By Nigel Westmaas One of the most significant African Guyanese organisations emerged in 1922, when the Negro Progress Convention (NPC) was launched by two prominent African Guianese middle-class professionals, Dr.

There’s an undercurrent of restrained anxiety throughout the six episodes of the new Netflix miniseries, “The Chair”.