Stabroek Weekend

Baldeo Singh and Anish Bhagwandeen are soldiers and they are actively involved in fighting a war for Guyana.

When Nurse Shelly Hinds now enters a minibus in her uniform, other commuters immediately shift to the other side of the seat.

Zen, which refers to a state of calm or peace, is what the Chief Executive Officer of Zen Events Surida Nagreadi was looking to give her customers when she created her company.

Hey Guys! Ms Bikini Guyana here to shed some light on your day.

As entrepreneurs seek to adapt to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, the youth in business are no different.

Death comes to us all. It is mostly unexpected but a variety of factors, such as the way we choose to live our lives and the choices we make, could give us an idea of how long we will be around.

After the recent Birthday rah rah that engulfed me and led to my column last week, I am taking that opening to spend some time this week with some looking back down memory lane at the musical journey for me that started all those years ago beginning with my very early years living at Vreed-en-Hoop, which I’ve written about before.

Last week we began an analysis of the state of theatre in Guyana, with particular reference to how it relates to theatre elsewhere in the Caribbean.

Interest in “Ian on Sunday” of April 12, (“Everything is interesting,”) attracted not only my attention but that of SN’s editorial writer last Friday, days after I had completed this effort.

Can one come of age in their thirties? In many ways, “Endings, Beginnings”, the new feature from director Drake Doremus, is best considered as a kind of delayed coming-of-age story of a woman coming to terms with her life.

I suppose it is getting older that brings this on but I have come to the conclusion in a long life that the high dramas of public events – the summits of great men who think they control events, the ribbon-cutting celebrations of immense enterprises, the coronations of Presidents and the inauguration of Parliaments, the inflated pageants of festivals and carnivals and celebrity occasions – fade into inconsequence compared with the quiet satisfactions of private life.

Historical records show that the last time a pandemic stampeded around the world was in 1918.

Introduction My last column addressed the impact of the incipient 2020 global inflation and its accompanying economic recession on the one hand, and, on the other, the COVID-19 pandemic, on the global demand and supply for crude oil.

Bread. It is the food that everyone has a passionate opinion on and about.

I have always enjoyed cooking for more than one reason. Satisfaction from seeing people whom I care for eat meals I prepared has been one of my biggest motivators.

The daring absurdity of the 156-day plan for the recounting of the ballots of the March 2 elections begs the question of what exactly goes on at meetings of the Elections Commission.

Now and then in life we become blessed with a singular development that both surprises and delights us. 

Staying at home and maintaining rigorous rules of isolation as one must in this time of plague – I find myself spending a lot more time in my library-study.

Introduction  In today’s column I continue my deliberations about the impact of the 2020 global general crisis on Guyana’s infant oil and gas sector.

This Easter won’t see the parks, seawalls, cane fields and other wide open outdoor spaces filled—as they typically are—with crowds of Guyanese enjoying picnics and flying kites.