Stabroek Weekend

Christmas Day is in three days and the New Year is just around the corner.

The Rotary Club of Georgetown Central and the Rotaract Club of Georgetown Central collaborated just over a week ago to provide over 100 families in Plastic City, Vreed-en-Hoop, with food hampers for the Christmas season.

On Saturday, December 14th, Nigel Butler and a group of other artistes turned the Courtyard Mall into their own personal live-art gallery as part of their plan to bring more recognition to the creative industries.

Given my own interests in cultural matters and the arts, generally, coupled with my wife’s own interests in other areas, it’s fair to say that evenings in Georgetown will often find me in various gatherings where those subjects are on the menu and, as to be expected, these occasions can vary in quality from official to exhilarating, and so one can go to these things hoping to encounter the latter. 

“Sometimes I want to do so much, and it just gets to me.

Last Update: 596.61                                            Movement: 1.38% Current Update” 604.85                                      YTD Movement: 17.48%                                        LUCAS STOCK INDEX The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 1.38 percent during the third period of trading in December 2019.

Introduction Last week’s column introduced four attributes of the Buxton Proposal, which I am certain, if kept constantly to the fore-front of its consideration would allow a deeper understanding of it as a potentially transformational poverty policy intervention, reaching beyond a cash transfers to all households’ scheme (and thus race/ethnic neutral).

If one of the two main political groups in Guyana, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) or  A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) achieves an absolute majority at the March 2 general elections, one half of the population will feel alienated.

Present Hope, East Bank Essequibo, bordered by Saint Lawrence and Lookabu, is a haven to the more than 100 people who call it home.

The best words for Christmas are from T.S. Eliot’s marvelous poem, “The journey of the Magi.”

Oil & Gas Oil production begins: ExxonMobil on Friday night announced the start of oil production from the Liza field, offshore Guyana ahead of schedule and less than five years after the first find of hydrocarbons.

The final chapter of the progressive Gaico Construction Grand Prix chess tournament ends today at the National Stadium, Providence.

For many people, there is no Christmas without ham. For me personally, it is all about the Pepperpot and homemade bread.

My therapist once told me that the holiday season is the one of the busiest periods for her and in the industry in general.

Fourteen minutes into “Bombshell”, Gretchen Carlson meets with a pair of lawyers.

Changing the world and creating art are only two passions of artist and activist Anil Persaud, who is seeking to use his artistic talent to raise awareness about social issues and human rights.

Two years ago, he travelled miles to surprise one of his two daughters for her birthday, but the conditions under which he found his daughters living broke his heart and with the permission of their mom, he moved them to the city in the hope of giving them a better life.

Ahead of the launch of his second collection today, fashion designer Carl Anthony Peterkin thinks that if he can “wow” at least one person, it will be worth it.

“Security guards work under terrible conditions and not just where you work, but also there is sometimes no paid leave… If you call in sick you are not paid.

Nestled at the far end on the left bank of the Mahaica River, 28 miles from Georgetown and surrounded by rice fields, is the fairly large village of Cane Grove.