Stabroek Weekend

By John Seeram I am motivated to write this article since, over my years of practice, the view has been expressed that there is no need for internal auditors since the external auditors are more recognised and qualified, and will perform an audit in accordance with the existing International Standards on Auditors (ISA).

There is an important monument at the University of Guyana (UG) that was established years ago to honour historian Walter Rodney, who was assassinated on Friday, June 13, 1980 by a planted bomb in Georgetown.

My wife, Annette, who most people know from her dedication to environmental matters and Guyanese culture over the years, will occasionally rope me into some project she has going, and one of current ones involves her brainwave to do a video where she shows me a photograph from my life and gets me talking about it. 

I do not like reminiscing about the old days – that immediately marks you as entering your dotage.

Guyana, and indeed the world, has moved on in significant ways since June 13, 1980, when Walter Rodney was assassinated.

When last you had Aloo (potato) roti? Earlier in the week I did not feel like eating any of the things I had cooked – not the roast chicken, eddo-leaf callaloo with coconut milk, fried ochroes, roast sweet potatoes, roast breadfruit or beef soup (hmmm, this means I have food for next week).

As we continue to observe and/or participate in the Black Lives Matter protests across the globe, I have been reflecting on how we racialize some certain aspects of black fashion and culture.

Emile Mervin was at work on the evening of April 4th, when he realised that something was wrong.

With host Alfredo Ballesteros at the helm, ‘Hola Guyana,’ currently the country’s sole Spanish/Latin radio programme, hit the airwaves some six months ago on MEGA 102.1 FM and has since attracted thousands of fans from Spanish communities around Guyana as well as from a number of Latin American countries.

A 25-year-old mother of three is seeking answers from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where doctors performed an emergency operation on her after she visited to have an Intrauterine device (IUD) removed.

As a delivery man, Carl McKenzie is almost always on the go—a state that has become even more pronounced now that many persons who are confining themselves to their homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic are relying on him.

A local fashion designer has moved to use her skills to assist those in need in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by making and donating masks to those in need.

What does it mean for art to become political? The question occurred to me this past week watching the way protests against anti-blackness spilled out from the USA to the rest of the world after police killed yet another black life.

The effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on the mental health of Guyanese is among the main issues on the minds of budding filmmakers who have submitted short films for the “592 48 Hour Film Challenge” that has been organised by the Timehri Film Festival and Bent Street Films.

It is not unusual on anniversaries to reflect on what is and what has gone before, and the independence commemoration is no different.

(Part 2) In last week’s column, I gave some useful tips to ensure that when the lockdown is finally over, you can come out of it looking and feeling almost as good as before.

Last week we looked at the psychological effects of lockdown and the importance of the population’s mental health wellbeing at an unprecedented time like this.

Diagram 1: This diagram shows all squares on the chessboard identified by their coordinates.

The late architect Lennox Hernandez has been remembered as a principled teacher who motivated some of his students to do their best.

By John Seeram Introduction Last month was designated International Internal Audit Awareness Month by the Institute of Internal Auditors Global (IIAG).