Stabroek Weekend

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If you are like most people, chicken in some form makes it way to the weekend dining table.

I took sleep for granted for a big part of my life.

Lumps in their breasts alerted two women that something was wrong and even though they quickly sought medical help, they were not prepared to be diagnosed with breast cancer.

By Samaria Deonauth              He glanced around the sparsely occupied café, scanning the unfamiliar faces, but even the face he was searching for is unfamiliar.

Although we are off to a belated start, for February we’ll be experimenting with a theme.

Later tonight the Academy Awards will act as the official closer on the 2019 year in film when the statues for outstanding achievements are handed out to winners – some deserving, some not so much.

Changsha Alone I stand in the autumn cold On the tip of Orange Island, The Xiang flowing northward; I see a thousand hills crimsoned through By their serried woods deep-dyed, And a hundred barges vying Over crystal blue waters.

Clairmont, a tiny village in Leguan, sits between Good Intent and Uniform.

Mankind in his/her various migrations ends up transforming the places where they settle without giving a thought to the changes, even in themselves, that result. 

Introduction Last Sunday’s column wrapped-up my extended presentation of the Guyana Petroleum Road Map, which started a year ago, on January 27, 2019.

“Well mine has stopped and I can’t say I have missed it.

There is a longstanding debate over the optimum time for training.

It is sad to say that the Global Witness report, “Signed Away,” analysing EEPGL’s (the ExxonMobil controlled Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited) agreement with Guyana and the damning circumstances leading up to its signing, will not influence the vote of more than a handful of people, if so many, at the elections on March 2.

As parents we do our best to ensure our child has everything they could possibly need but sometimes we don’t always strike a balance.

Joseph Brodsky, the great Russian poet who died at the sadly young age of 56, on receiving his Nobel Prize in the Grand Hall of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm in December, 1987, declared a great truth: “There is no doubt in my mind that, should we have been choosing our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programmes, there would be much less grief on earth.”

Chicken Breast. It is my least favourite part of the bird.

I have never really been interested in any sort of sport or sporting event.

West Demerara’s Taffin Khan had amassed 4½ points by Wednesday evening and took the sole lead in the National Qualifiers Chess Tournament, which is currently being played at the National Stadium, Providence.

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