Stabroek Weekend

We grow up in Guyana, and the Caribbean generally, with this notion of jumbie, soucoyant, ol’ higue, etc.

From “Son of Guyana” (for Henry Muttoo)   Doan’ tell me ‘bout Guyana.

There’s a scene in “Thunder Force” that’s been on my mind since I saw it.

The most common answer I get from people when I ask why they don’t exercise is, “I just don’t have the time.”

Last Update: 711. 73                                               Movement: -0.25% Current Update: 709.97                                        YTD Movement: 2.62%The Lucas Stock Index fell 0.25% during the second period of trading in April 2021.

The Candidates Tournament to select the most suitable chess player to oppose world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway resumes tomorrow.

The loud whistling kettle interrupts my thoughts. Slowly, almost reluctantly, I raise the upper half of my body that was leaning on the kitchen counter, looking through the closed glass window.

My late godmother used to say that she was really happy about the time period in which she was born.

Patrice Douglas is a doctor, but she has not worn her white coat since she completed her internship some years ago.

When a then teenage Leola Agatha Marslow née Wilson began to teach, very much intending to use the experience as a stepping stone to some other profession, she could not have imagined that 42 years later she would be retiring from a fulfilling career as an educator.

The quote, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you,” has been attributed to the late Maya Angelou and it is one that Reminiscence Bio, established last August, firmly agrees with.

      By Eusi Kwayana [Baytoram Ramharack, Jung Bahadur Singh of Guyana (1886-1956): Politician, ship doctor, labor leader and protector of Indians, San Juan, Chakra Press, 2019.

In 2010, I wrote an article on the overseas vote in which I argued that the Constitution of Guyana permitted all Guyanese citizens over the age of 18 to vote.

The previous column (April 4: ‘The government’s overdraft at BoG, the fiscal deficit and corruption’) explained that the government’s fiscal deficit — which must not be confused with current account deficit as one online commenter did — has to be financed by (i) borrowing, (ii) seeking foreign grants, (iii) using previous savings, and/or (iv) creating money from its deposit at the Bank of Guyana (BoG).

I interrupt my series on Extraordinary People to reflect on the concept of excellence which is involved, one way or another, with any life which is exceptional or exemplary.

Two days ago, out of the blue, I had an awful experience with the sudden death of a friend here, Colin Ming, in a traffic accident (he was on a motorbike) that just shattered me. 

Structure is everything in the Emma Seligman’s feature directorial debut, “Shiva Baby”.

Introduction Last week’s column explained the enigma of, on the one hand, repeated striking downward revisions to Guyana’s expected real GDP growth for 2020 (initially set at 85% by the IMF and Government of Guyana, GoG in Q4, 2019).

Ulysses It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

Classes will resume virtually when the new school term starts on Monday.