Stabroek Weekend

“The worst thing about this job is not the little bit of money we work for or even the long hours, it is how people treat us.

Republic Financial Holdings Limited (RFHL) on Friday announced that it completed the acquisition of seven Scotiabank operations in the Caribbean yesterday.

Exercising is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Your weight will be kept under control, you will have more energy, your mood will be lighter, and you will sleep better.

Happiness is different for every person as it is based on how they were raised and the value that they place on things both material and immaterial.

Soon after the Gaico Construction sponsorship for chess was finalised, Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) favoured the brain game with a $320,000 injection.

Over the years, writing this column, there have been some short ones, but the one today will be the shortest I’ve done. 

Last Update: 581.73                                                    Movement: -0.00% Current Update: 581.73                                              YTD  Movement: 12.99% The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) remained unchanged during the final period of trading in October 2019. 

Introduction Today’s column continues the discussion of establishing a domestic oil refinery (or refineries), whether private or state-owned, to process Guyana’s crude slate.

The Bank of Guyana Act makes it clear that the central bank is the government’s bank.

Esther Perreira, a PNC supporter, filed an elections petition in 1998, challenging the validity of the 1997 elections on several grounds, one of which was that the elections were unlawfully conducted.

The younger generation never experienced, and older people tend to forget, how very limited and how very stifled the media was in the last period of President Burnham’s rule.

There is nothing like a hot, fresh, baked good being pulled from the oven.

My eyes always light up at showroom windows when I pass them.

A little over an hour into “The Informer”, Pete Koslow (an excellent Joel Kinnaman) makes a call from jail.

Samantha Young has never used drugs or alcohol, but she has seen and experienced the debilitating and sometimes horrific effects of substance abuse.

By Nicholas Peters Colonialism had already imposed colonial mindsets on the psyche of African people, which meant that they continued to reproduce coloniality as their future even after direct juridical colonialism has been dismantled – Sabelo J.Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Nicholas Peters’ “Imagining Future Guyanas” is the last of four non-fiction works we decided to feature this month.

Richmond Housing Scheme on the Essequibo Coast has been in existence for more than 30 years and a haven to the 1,000+ people who made it their home over the years.

Sita and Jatayu         It was Jatayu who tried to pursue Rawan to save Sita, his treasured King’s wife, as she prayed to her Rama to free her from Rawan’s clutch, squeezing tight her spleenThe Vulture King, Jatayu’s time was due.

“I was almost ready to get baby and we had not marry for a very long time when I found out he was cheating, and this thing got me so sick that I end up in hospital.