Stabroek Weekend

What is the world’s biggest festival? There might be different ways of measuring it.

The work of 11 artists was showcased on Thursday when the Guyana Women Artists’ Association (GWAA) hosted its 31st Annual Art Exhibition, which was held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre at Liliendaal.

For some of you, the enthusiasm and excitement of starting and staying on a fitness course that you began this year, may have gone way off track.

How often have you heard the saying “opposites attract”? Time and time again, we hear people say that they couldn’t be with someone just like them because it would be boring and predictable.

Last Update: 597.19                                        Movement: 0.10% Current Update” 596.61                                   YTD Movement: 15.88% The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) fell 0.10% during the second period of trading in December 2019. 

One of the consequences of my having written a number of songs that have become popular with Caribbean people is, as I’ve previously mentioned, that upcoming Caribbean songwriters will ask me for tips on songwriting or, sometimes, with help on a specific problem in a song they’re working on.

The spectacle of a Nobel Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, a world renowned fighter for human rights, and former political prisoner, denying genocide during last week at the World Court is sobering.

Another year has nearly passed away. This seems astonishing to me.

The celebrated Gaico Construction Grand Prix series of chess tournaments comes to a conclusion this, and next weekend, at the Providence Stadium following two months of intense encounters.

What is the world’s biggest festival? There might be different ways of measuring it.

So, you’re hosting the big family and friends Christmas meal this year, for the first time.

Who knew gym for your face would be an actual thing?

Introduction Thus far, I have observed that, from a purely pedagogic perspective, it has been very helpful for ease of explanation and hopefully, understanding, to introduce my presentation of the Buxton Proposal, beginning with a listing of four of its attributes before offering a formal comprehensive depiction or description of it.

This review contains mild spoilers for the film. In the ironically titled “Marriage Story”, Nicole (an actress, played by Scarlett Johansson) and Charlie (a director, played by Adam Driver) try to navigate the end of their marriage and custody of their eight-year-old son.

When Simone Poole was seven-years-old, she had a collision with a schoolmate that left her immobile for more than a day and after she regained movement in her legs, her gait was never the same.

With her first ever solo art exhibition, which is now open at Castellani House, artist Elodie Cage-Smith is seeking to portray the struggles of her Caribbean ancestors as well as the appreciation she feels for the aesthetic value of the Caribbean.

In Clifton Settlement, which was once known as Port Mourant, then Tain, located along the Corentyne highway in Region Six, fish vendor Angela Naidu wakes at 2 am to head to work on most days.

By Nadia Sagar   Aback the cane-field Along lusty fields of mottled stalk and punt trench dam Houses stilted and unstilted Blue green mud thick against walls of concrete and decaying wood Ant trails like swollen veins Crisscrossing greyed greenheart posts   Women washing clothes in cracked plastic tubs Under the not yet sharp morning sun Gabardine pants hung on paling staves Banana suckers Hanging low with unpicked fruit Bird vine covering unclaimed spaces   Women on steps thinned by scrubbing Picking lice from little heads bent Lashes passing at every fidget   Brother Paul preaches the gospel The congregation swells, the spirit descends   Chowtal and puja in Temple on Sunday morn Mother Lakshmi, Mother Durga and Lord Shiva, Pandit reads Sanskrit, fingers tracing faded words Prasad and mittai bagged, folded legs catching cramp   In polyester briefs and panties, the children play War break and tyres burning, tinnin cup knocking Thief man coming And black pudding lady basket piled high With chicken foot souse and plantain chips   Pit latrines rank The wiri–wiri tree by neighbour Nelly yard exploding Gloriously Rain and sun and gravel and mud And days washed clean and smelling ripe And the breeze cutting through the fields of cane Slamming doors and drying beads of sweat Births and deaths and beatings

Nadia Sagar is an attorney-at-law. In her spare time, she writes short stories and is currently working on a collection she hopes to one day publish.

Sometimes In The Middle Of The Story (For the drowned Africans of the Middle Passage) Sometimes in the middle of the story something move outside the house, like it could be the wind, but is not the wind and the story-teller hesitate so slight you hardly notice it, and the children hold their breath, and look at one another.