Stabroek Weekend

I do not get the impression that governance in the world is good or that it is getting better.

Guyana’s Under-10 chess players who participated in the FIDE Online Rapid World Cup Cadets & Youth Champ-ionship 2021 expressed themselves handsomely against the creme de la creme of the U-10 community of chess players worldwide.

Race was a significant factor in the formation of the Peoples’ Progressive Party (PPP) in 1950, as it was in Guyanese life and society.

There’s a lot happening in the computer-animated musical comedy “Vivo”. At its centre, it’s about the power of music, and seeking to prove that a single song can change a life.

Introduction To recap, this long-running series of Sunday Stabroek columns focusing on Guyana’s emergent oil and gas sector commenced just four months short of five years ago; on September 4, 2016!

A vigorous debate is ongoing regarding the operationalisation of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF).

The previously mentioned 2020 Facebook communication and in-depth, in-person conversations with family members about “sweet drink” led to the selection of the individuals who are profiled in this installment. 

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have seen some record breaking and scintillating performances by numerous athletes, among them were Elaine Thompson-Herah on the track, Katie Ledecky in the pool and Simone Biles on the balance beam.

For several days recently, I have been in somewhat of a daze and even mourning for the passing of a long-time friend, Jerry Gouveia, former athlete, hunter, fisherman, etc.

God’s Grandeur  The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

“I am just happy that I get to see my children and now I have them again.

Last weekend was a four-day holiday weekend here in Barbados and I made bread pudding to share with friends.

I spent last month in my husband’s home country. The main purpose of the trip was for us to get vaccinated and to ensure that his parents did the same.

Long before Patricia Cummings made headlines for vaccinating United States Vice-President Kamala Harris, she was a nurse who enjoyed caring for her patients as much as she could.

A year ago, unsung marine turtle conservationist, Audley James, 80, left the protected area of Shell Beach, Mabaruma Sub-region after 33 years, knowing that the once dwindling population of endangered marine turtles in north western Guyana was on the increase.

Seerojnie Singh, better known as ‘Aunty Baby,’ is the go-to person for plant lovers living along the East Coast Demerara.

Today is Emancipation Day, and millions of Afro-Caribbean people within the Region and across the diaspora will be celebrating the abolition of slavery across the British Empire.

One is not certain about the first flavors of “sweet drink” to be bottled in British Guiana. 

Introduction Today’s column wraps-up my interrogation cum discussion of the mis-representations, deceptions, and fake news hurled at Guyana’s emerging oil and gas sector.