Stabroek Weekend

Last Update:609.70                                      Movement: 0.00% Current Update: 609.70                              YTD Movement 0.61% The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) remained unchanged during the third period of trading in February, 2020.

A total of 75 students from 12 schools participated in the Mae’s Mashramani Under-14 Development Chess Tournament last weekend at the Mae’s School.

These Raw Brownie Bites are a fix. They are a fix for a quick snack.

My personal taste for weddings leans toward small and intimate, but for some strange reason I always enjoy the over-the-top grandeur for other people.

Stacey Dos Santos Rahaman and her husband Chris Rahaman are warriors for Guyana, and they will fiercely defend this land of many waters they call home.

Naya Zamana 23 returned to the National Cultural Centre last weekend with the performance of the dance drama Zindagi Express directed and choreographed by Dr Vindhya Persaud.

Mortice, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara is not visible from the Mahaicony main road.

Dear Minerva, I am 19 years old. I met this guy online.

What to eat and how much to eat before a workout are highly dependent on how what you have already eaten during the day, what you plan to eat after your workout, how hard you’re training, and personal tolerance.

Not all of us grow up to be secure, comfortable and confident in who we are.

“I feel very stressed out. I feel upset, but I am accepting, in a way, that it happened.

On the heels of its continued success, STEM-Guyana has responded to requests from parents, teachers, civil society leaders and others to initiate an robotics education programmes for adults.

The Women’s Olympiad qualifier has ended with four players identified to represent Guyana at the 2020 Chess Olympiad in Russia. 

The Ministry of Natural Resources (MoNR) on Friday launched its Mashramani band at the Sophia Exhibition Centre before a small gathering as it prepares to take to the streets with a larger contingent than in the past to celebrate Guyana’s Golden Jubilee Republic anniversary.

Financial independence training institute Outliers Zone has launched a countrywide campaign to help households better understand financial independence.

Local Information Technology (IT) company Techlify Inc has been named the winner of Best IT Organization and Best Business Software at the 2020 BIZ X Awards, an annual event that honors the best of the best small and medium-sized businesses around the world.

Elections Political parties sign code of conduct – The 11 political parties, which have been approved to contest the March 2nd, 2020 elections, signed a Code of Conduct on Thursday under the auspices of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC).

The three political parties that invoked section 22 of the Representation of the People Act signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Friday setting out the principles on which both their pre- and post-election cooperation will be based.

I remember long ago saying to that warm and intelligent human being, Winnie Gaskin, that I wasn’t really interested in politics, that I grew bored by its complexities, that I loathed its sour and unbrotherly antagonisms, that I had better things to do than get mixed up in all the unsavoury maneuverings that went into lusting after political power. 

Introduction This week’s column treats with what still passes today as Guyana’s “national debate on its projected Government Take” or revenue share obtained from the export of barrels of crude oil equivalent (boe) based on its petroleum discoveries as detailed in last Sunday’s column.