Stabroek Weekend

Former government minister and educator Donald Ainsworth, 73, and his wife Wendy recently celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.

Jumal Sam explained that seeing animated films as a child left a lasting impression on him.

In last week’s column I mentioned that among the things I make with green plantains is Arañitas.

Suffering, much like happiness, comes in small and large waves. It finds us on the shores of life and engulfs us until it feels as if there is nothing else in the world for us to feel or see.

Breaking Down Sexual Offences Act Readers this week may be puzzled by today’s headline.

I miss dating whenever I hear about the stories of some of my girlfriends even though I abhor  that it often felt, and probably still feels, like an unending time-wasting Netflix series.

“I want what is best for my children and sometimes I question what is the best.

As the 2020 elections drew near, three new and small political parties, A New and United Guyana (ANUG), The New Movement (TNM) and Liberty and Justice Party (LJP), decided to enhance their chances of gaining representation in the National Assembly.

There is an entry in my father’s diary which moved me deeply when I read it after he died.

The St. Cuthbert’s Mission/Pakuri Village Council recently posted this photograph of the late artist and archaeologist George Simon creating this beautiful painting as their ‘picture of the day’ on their Facebook page.

Junior chess is becoming more pronounced in Guyana with the hosting of a fair number of tournaments recently.

By Alim Hosein [Today we highlight the forthcoming international Linguistics Conference which will be hosted by the University of Guyana’s Department of Language and Cultural Studies within its Faculty of Education and Humanities on August 5 – 9, 2024. 

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, the first of two parts, Roger Seymour looks at the Test careers of Jeff Dujon and Gus Logie who were members of the West Indies juggernaut which plundered the Test arena in the 1980s.

By R M Austin Leon David Stewart passed away peacefully at his home in Tucville on Tuesday, July 2, 2024.

In the last decade, two of South America’s best directors (Pablo Larraín and Sebastian Lelio, both Chilean) made their English language debuts (“Jackie”, and “Disobedience”) with bold films about women resisting to be quelled by their historical and societal circumstances.

Many a childhood is littered with misadventure, some hair-raising, others embarrassing or just sad.

Lupita Nyong’o’s face is the most effective visual effect in “A Quiet Place: Day One”.

After so many countries have plundered and dug through their lands or invited others to do so for them, exhausting their environmental limits and pushing local communities out for capitalist gains, we are yet again reminded that climate change isn’t just a safe cause or talking point.

Eleven-year-old Matthew Mohabir of Abrams Creek Primary in the Lower Pomeroon River, has emerged as one of the top performers in the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) for Region Two.