Stabroek Weekend

The Lucas Stock Index gained 0.010 percent on the sale of 9,741 shares during the second period of trading in December 2024. 

Guyanese are set to enjoy an exciting new range of travel options, thanks to a partnership between United Airlines and Global Tours and Travel (GlobalTT).

Jonestown is once again in the news and is attracting widespread and serious comment.

“The When Time” is the title of a poem by West Indian poet Martin Wylde Carter (June 7, 1927 – December 13, 1997) from the collection Poems of Succession (New Beacon Books, 1978). 

“I am trying to clean but when I get customers I have to leave off.

The world has a new chess champion. Grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, on Thursday became the youngest person to attain this goal when he won the last game of the 14-game match, taking the title for India.

Fans of horror and the supernatural will have much to celebrate on Christmas Day when Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu” premieres in cinemas.

Some of the most vivid poems in the world are written on a huge rock in a remote forest in Sri Lanka.

There are mountains that rule this earth, and they are yet to be moved.

Come next year GEMS Theatre Productions, will premiere a play titled “From Whence We Came – The Chinese Experience”, which is based on research by Scott Ting-A-Kee and scripted for stage by popular playwright, novelist and artist, Harold Bascom.

Breaking Down the Sexual Offences Act Today, I will discuss Section 79 of the Sexual Offences Act, Cap 8:03, Laws of Guyana (“the SOA”), which governs the admissibility of evidence regarding a complainant’s prior sexual activity in criminal matters under the SOA.

Introduction As indicated at the outset of the present series of columns, outlined in my October 27 2024 column, starting today I engage the third of the five topics listed therein; namely, Guyana’s macroeconomy and the policies needed to promote, ensure, as well as sustain both internal and external balance.

(Cont’d from 8 December) “Charlotte [Woolford] and Mal [Woolford] use the early photographic technique wet-plate collodion to make closely observed portraits not as photographer and model but as co-photographers.

Cash grant Cash grant to be shared in Region Nine today: The Ministry of Finance last week said that the $100,000 cash grant will be distributed today in Region Nine.

Winella Cameron-Greene, who turned her Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo home into a temporary animal sanctuary, will next Sunday December 15, lead a five-kilometre walk to raise awareness of animal cruelty.

By Khamisi Slowe Capturing nature and producing food are two of the attributes of Joshua Macey, a 27-year-old visionary, who not only sows seeds in the soil but also in the hearts of those who encounter his work.

The iconic Yoruba Singers are set to host the 10th edition of their annual concert, “For the Love of a Common People”, today, December 8, at the Promenade Gardens.

At the conclusion of round nine of the 2024 FIDE World Chess Championship on Thursday, the players were tied at 4.5-4 .5 in the 14-game encounter.

The A New and United Guyana (ANUG), Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) and The New Movement (TNM), which contested the 2020 elections, utilized section 22 of the Representation of the People Act (ROPA) for the first time in Guyana’s history and wrote to the Chief Election Officer informing him that they have “joined” their lists.

It is good to be touched by perfection even if one is the victim of it.