Stabroek Weekend

Social media provides multiple platforms for people to cook and share their food.

Fashion and shopping seem like frivolous things to indulge openly in these days.

With the COVID-19 outbreak cancelling traditional Independence Day activities, some Guyanese youth have suggestions for celebrating the day safely.

A child alone with an alcoholic parent, a ‘little old lady’ who just wanted something to eat and pensioner who wanted assistance in accessing her diabetes medication were among the over 200 calls received by the Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) for the month of April.

Knowing that giving up is not an option, every day many health care workers show up to do their part as the fight continues both against the spread of COVID-19 and to treat those who are infected.

There has been uproar in our society about why, despite there being an information overload on the novel coronavirus, that most men still seem to be overlooking safety precautions by not wearing masks, not practicing social distancing and “liming” when they should be at home.

By Shaquawn Gill A Guyanese Ohio University graduate is using animation to bring awareness to the social issues surrounding brain drain in an effort to encourage people to stay and return to assist in building their home country.

‘Seven years ago, Afeena Aliyah Mootoo professionally entered the makeup industry after she was recommended by a friend to her first client.

Seeking to use his talent to provide humanitarian support during the COVID-19 pandemic, designer Bernard Ramsay has launched a t-shirt project to raise funds for several homes for the elderly.

“I really don’t know what will happen when all of this is over.

The Mouse’s Tale                                                      “Fury said to a mouse         that he met in the     house, ‘let us both go to law    I will prosecute you – Come I’ll                                        take no denial:                                     We must have                                 a trial; For        really this   morning I’ve nothing to do.’

A young woman is picked up before sunrise by a driver and travels from her home to her office.

Last week, we addressed the motions of castling on the Kingside and Queenside.

I have been re-reading a book of great beauty given to me as a gift by my wife: A River Runs Through It, by Norman Fitzroy Maclean.

Introduction There is one outstanding feature of the 2020 general crisis and its impacts on the crude oil market that remains to be assessed in this series of Sunday columns, before I can fruitfully turn to evaluate its likely specific impacts on Guyana’s infant (five-month old) oil and gas sector.

I have to declare that in the midst of all the high-tech life we’re enmeshed in these days, right in the very heart of it, like sitting in an airport lounge in North America recently, my mind, seemingly on its own, will take charge of me, like a tap on the shoulder, and send me back to some crystal clear memory (I’ve mentioned some of them before) that  ends up slowing me for a few minutes, literally not moving, reliving what once was, photographs of life in some reservoir somewhere, some of them very old, but all of them crystal clear and sometimes suggesting music.

While the political atmosphere is still heavily laden with gloom, it was somewhat lifted by President Granger’s statement last week that the Government will accept ‘any declaration’ made by GECOM pursuant to the recount.

In many countries, gyms, and fitness centres are cautiously beginning to reopen.

Last week, for the first time ever, I ate a hot dog with the bread-bun that accompanied it and I liked it.

For the first time in a long time this week I enjoyed a meal in a restaurant in the city where I live.