Stabroek Weekend

You could say that Davion Mars has been defying the odds from the very start of his life.

Hundreds of persons on Friday flocked to the Diplomatic Fair hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at D’Urban Park, where representatives from various foreign missions in Guyana and local organisations set up booths to display their culture and various services offered.

Bad movies are nothing new or unusual. Considering the number of films put into production and released each year, they are an unavoidable part of the film industry.

Gitanjali 35         Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Dear Minerva, I grew up poor. I shared a bedroom with 3 siblings and 4 cousins of both sexes.

From the age of 11 years old, she was repeatedly raped by a relative.

“You know they say you mek you children but you ain’t mek they mind?

A personality disorder is defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) as “an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of that individual’s culture, is pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early childhood, is stable over time and leads to distress or impairment in one’s daily life.”

Unless you are already lean, at least part of your reason for exercising is that you want to burn fat and get ripped.

Flora Garden is situated along the De Hoop Branch Road in Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, where it is flanked by Number Ten and Handsome Tree.

In the fifty-plus years since I started the Tradewinds band in Canada, I have been frequently asked about the direction of the group, which was a Caribbean band, formed in a Canadian city, but with a completely Caribbean focus.

Last Update: 605.29                                 Movement: 0.14% Current Update: 606.16                            YTD Movement 17.73%LUCAS STOCK INDEX The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 0.14% during the fourth period of trading in January 2020.

Introduction This week I turn to consider the second and third of the three relations, identified last week, as informing the petroleum metrics/revenues of the Guyana Petroleum Road Map, and, relatedly, the Buxton Proposal.

By 2012 African journalists were questioning the origins of Isabel dos Santos’s wealth.

I thank whatever Gods that be that even at the age of 86 my mind remains restless and eager to absorb new facts, new theories, new ways of looking at life and the world, new stories of mankind’s continual search for perfected knowledge, new illuminations of the spirit.

The senior National Qualifier for entry into the 2020 National Chess Championship started yesterday at the National Stadium, Providence.

Oil & Gas Guyana stands to lose US$55B in bad oil deal – Saying that available data show that Guyana has an oil deal far below global standards and will lose out on up to US$55 Billion over the 40-year period of the licence for the offshore Stabroek Block, international corruption watchdog Global Witness has written to ExxonMobil urging a renegotiation.

The neck of a sheep is a tasty cut of meat.

Sometimes it can feel as if concerns surrounding climate change is an upper-class problem, primarily because access to alternatives that would be better for the environment are more expensive and very often inaccessible to the masses.

To An Expatriate Friend Colour meant nothing. Anyone who wanted help, had humour or was kind was brother to you; categories of skin were foreign; you were colour blind.