Stabroek Weekend

Read this before heading back to gym. For the better part of the last six months, our lives have been turned upside down, and this has highlighted more than ever the therapeutic nature of regular exercise.

There’s a lightness to the scenarios in “On the Rocks” that feels almost too precarious.

There were two very important items of interest to literature in the news over the last fortnight. 

Introduction Today’s column continues my extended assessment of the cost of delay encountered at the Payara project, as modelled and reported on by Rystad Energy back in July this year.

Last Update: 641.39                  Movement: 0.97% Current Update: 647.64            YTD Movement: 6.87%The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 0.97% during the second period of trading in October 2020.

There are some constants in our lives in the arts where we have learned over the years of the value of certain creators who never disappoint us and among them, for me, is the work of poetry master Ian McDonald.

Flooding the land on which squatters have unlawfully occupied, conjures up some of history’s most oppressive episodes.

Toronto is a calm, clean, well-ordered, cosmopolitan, peaceful city.  If during a long weekend in this city of two and a half million people there are a couple of murders it would be an alarming law and order crisis. 

Chess is like a language; the top players are very fluent at it.

Very little in Hong Sang-soo’s “The Woman Who Ran” plays as if it is a mystery to be solved.

Anjalena Beshpatty knew something was different about her son when he was just a few months old as little Sameir never smiled or cried.

I recently witnessed a horrifying incident at the Awen (8) Supermarket, which is located on the Railway Embankment in the community of Enmore.

Bordered by Akawini to the south and Manawarin to the west, Wakapoa is by far one of the most peculiar indigenous villages in Guyana and possibly in the world as it consists of twenty inhabited islands that is home to its two thousand plus residents who belong to the Arawak/ Lokono and Warrau tribes.

Almost three dozen local female entrepreneurs have created a support group to promote each other’s’ businesses. 

Though there are those who create and perform for the love of it, because it is a hobby, or because they are in an environment where professional theatre is not developed, theatre around the world today is big business.

Early in “Time” Sibil Fox Richardson – you may know her as Fox Rich – is recording a video for her social media, announcing an upcoming talk she’ll be giving.

Have you ever thought that the reason you’re not reaching your fitness goal is because you can’t focus?

The growing numbers of COVID-19 deaths will likely terrify you, especially if you already have an underlying condition.

Last Update:645.11                     Movement: 0.58% Current Update:641.39                YTD Movement: 5.84%The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) fell 0.58% during the first period of trading in October, 2020.

Introduction Today’s column continues the discussion on Rystad Energy’s recent modeling of the “cost of delay of the Payara project”.