Stabroek Weekend

Modern man has miraculous powers. He flies to the moon and soars beyond the sun.

Once again, West Demerara’s Taffin Khan demonstrated that he belongs to the select inner circle of chess in Guyana when he won the last Gaico Constrution Chess Tournament, which concluded on Sunday at the National Stadium, Providence.

Auld Lang Syne Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?

“For me, just getting a new start is good enough. I ain’t really putting no meaning to New Year’s Day but I just happy that in the new year I not the same way I start out and for that I just thanking God.

Princeville is in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni), a half an hour’s ride from the mining town of Mahdia and home to more than 100 residents who are still learning to co-exist with the wildlife that was there before them.

It’s nearing the end of the year and may we ask ourselves whether we have achieved all that we set out to do in 2019.

The standard of expression one encounters on the various social media, even on Facebook, can range at times from low to quite high, and shades in between, but in the midst of that melee salient points or insights can emerge so it’s up to us to pick and choose. 

This time of the year always gets me excited. I start thinking about ways that I can improve myself moving into the new year in order to totally dominate it.

A lot of focus has been on the food for the season but equally important are the drinks; they put the finishing touch to all the gatherings and celebrations.

I think I managed to maintain my 2019 resolution as it relates to fashion consumption fairly well.

Greta Gerwig’s new film, the literary adaptation “Little Women,” feels weighed down by its history.

The debilitating physical and emotional pain of an HIV-positive mother of six, which she witnessed as a young 17-year-old work study student in a private hospital, pushed Simone Sills into the world of nursing and long years after that woman died she has lived on through Sills’ work that has been centred around HIV and AIDS.

I was introduced to my family’s Christmas traditions very late. This is because I was born long after most of the traditions—the cooking, cleaning, shopping and sharing—were already established by my family without me.

Dis is the bess time of the year to find out: what is dis “Nativity”?

By Gabrielle Mohamed In the early hours of the Christmas Eve, the rickety gait of a broken granddaughter stumbles along the red chapped bricks of Georgetown’s Main Street.

By Cosmata Lindie   Well, we were hanging out in Heaven Just doing what angels do Lighting up the new stars And snuffing out the old ones too   No, it wasn’t us who made them That was God’s work, as you all know But the maintenance of creation Is what the angels do   All systems were up and running And God was pleased with what he’d done But one world was causing worry  That third rock from the sun   It was really quite a jewel With great promise, so God said But the humans set to care for it Were cursed by sin instead   And God fretted over them While we just did what angels do Paid visits, carried messages And helped quite a few souls too   Oh yes, and Jesus? 

Darkness cloaked the silent world And then appeared a Star Brightly shining in the East It was seen both near and far.

The perfect Christmas playlist will likely be different for each of us, but there are arguably a few songs that should probably make your cut.

A Visit from Saint Nicholas                          ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St.

Dear Minerva, I have had a very disturbing few weeks. My partner and I have always been very honest with each other, or so I thought.