Stabroek Weekend

My eating is erratic. I only eat when I am hungry.

I took the decision two days before the new year broke to temporarily deactivate my Facebook and Instagram accounts; a digital detox is what health and wellness gurus call it.

If you’re reading this, then you made it past 2020, which will likely be a year that many of us will never forget.

Contrary to our hopes for this year, the spectre of 2020 has followed us into 2021.

The only thing constant is change – Heraclitus (Greek philosopher) How many of your 2020 New Year’s resolutions did you achieve?

Despite the ongoing pandemic, Cleveland Chapel is one of the most popular hotdog vendors around Georgetown.

Under the stewardship of founder Gavin Gayadin, Modern Building Solutions (MBS) Inc, which has been operating for more than a year, has swiftly been making a name for itself in the local construction industry.

The most recent Pixar film, “Soul”, dropped on Disney Plus at the end of 2020 to bring some existential philosophising to the holiday season.

Mrs Quasimodo’s Divorce (an excerpt)                   . . . We lived in the Cathedral grounds.

Congratulations! 2021 is here and you survived one of the toughest years for the globe in modern history.

Many of us at some time or another, generally in a new year, have resolved to “keep a diary,” probably as part of some grand and comprehensive plan to organize one’s life better and achieve great things – plans, I am afraid, which very soon run aground on the dangerous shoals of everyday living. 

Introduction As promised last week, today’s column begins with my presentation of a simple schedule depicting the sequencing of the five projects of ExxonMobil and its partners around which the IDB has modeled Guyana’s oil and gas sector to 2025 in its recent report, ‘Traversing a Slippery Slope: Guyana’s Oil Opportunity, 2020.’

By this time, the year of the half person would have passed.

 “You can’t ignore it and you can’t explain it” – Agatha Christie describing intuition.

Like most people in their growing up years, I discovered early the influence music can have in our lives, ranging from birthday parties to wedding receptions to special days in the year, and in celebrations big and small in venues ranging from simple to elaborate. Also

The Animal Rescue Adoption and Protection Society (ARAPS), a not-for-profit organization, is one of several in Guyana that is committed to rescuing animals from cruel environs and providing them with caring, forever homes.

By A.J. McR. Cameron In a society whose history has revolved so much around bondage of one kind or another, the Great Uprising of 1763 assumes a particular significance, representing as it does one of those rare interludes when the enslaved confronted their oppressors on their own terms.

Quinisa St Claire has turned her flair for decorating into a business that has taken off in a big way since its opening earlier this year. 

2021 is just days away and many of you may have resolutions to change your habits.

A lively and valuable gift for the season and a rousing way to end a year whose flame was somewhat dampened by a prolonged pandemic, is a blast of folk songs.