Stabroek Weekend

Using the same weights or machines can become monotonous and boring.

We have grown up in a society where the predominant belief is that disciplining a child means “licks.”

It may be convenient to repeat the words of Mikhail Gorbachev following the G7 summit of 1991: “The ice has started moving… and the icebreaker is on its way toward renewal.”

Seeing the need for members of the Guyanese workforce to provide the best services that they can, a local company, Professional Training, Employment and Consultancy Services, has been working to help workers develop their skills and themselves in the process.

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Introduction Last week’s column briefly evaluated the perspective of private investors and their value added proposals for constructing “modular mini-refineries” utilising Guyana’s crude oil.

Jaded by the PPP/C’s 23 years in office, many were elated at the coalition between the APNU and AFC because it offered the real possibility of ending the PPP/C’s long incumbency.

A day is dulled and dimmed if it passes and I do not pick up a book of poems in my library, browse in some anthology, find a new poem in the latest issue of Poetry Review or The New Yorker or some other magazine or at least glance at some old favourite lines from Hopkins, Walcott, Yeats, Carter or a score of other supreme masters of the art and craft of making poems.

Things turned sour Dear Minerva, I just broke up with my boyfriend of four years.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has reiterated its pledge to protect individual citizens against abuse by officialdom.

It didn’t come to me like a bulb lighting up; it took a long time for the realisation to dawn but when it did come it landed with so much force that I remember it left me thinking, “Halle-lujah; I never thought of it before, but that’s true” and what I’m referring to is the fact that the most gifted calypsonians were those who had the advantage of having lived a very focused life, of having taken part in or seen or heard of unusual things, and – this is the key part – then being able to find a novel way of expressing the idea or the behaviour in a humourous or sardonic manner in a song.

All I have now of Diwali celebrations in my family are memories.

I don’t find Germany incredibly capitalist. I suppose it’s because at its core and surface level socialist policies are so strongly interwoven.

There are so many entry-points to thinking of the recent action-thriller “Gemini Man”, that’s it’s hard to decide where exactly to start: With the fact that it has only recouped $120 million since it premiered worldwide two weeks ago despite a $130 million budget?

It was a normal Sunday for Michael Edghillo 12 years ago and he went to work just as he had done for some 31 years as a maintenance engineer for the power company.

“Nature Blooms,” a new exhibition featuring the art of Sandra LaRocque and Aelisha Garnett-Williams, is currently being hosted at Castellani House, the National Gallery of Art in Georgetown.

By Vidyaratha Kissoon I see the sign – “Doubles $200” – on the cart at the busy corner of the road and I think never mind who is watching, I am going to stand and eat one and I don’t care how much mess I make on my mouth and hands and clothes. 

Vidyaratha Kissoon’s “Half of a doubles with tamarind in George-town,” which is the third of four non-fiction pieces we are featuring this month, is an edited version of a post first published on his blog, Thoughts of a Minibus Traveller, which is now in its tenth year.

Chutney Love Dem call meh Chutney Love And if yuh see meh belly roll Man cyan stop meh on a stage When de chutney take control   I eh nobody bowjie No promised doolahin But when de tassa start to roll up Beta, dem lyrics yuh have I done write myself in   Ah could speak a lil Hindi From meh nani and Indian movie Dem does lick up meh curry and roti An, well, meh house does see Both Eid and Diwali But dis chutney I does feel it Curving in all meh wrist an ankle bone Ah hundred and fifty years we woman singing it An not in matikor alone   I never yet did leave Trinidad Since India was left on de boats So I know dis chutney is real Trini make National culture like calypso We did sing it  [.

Formerly called Johanna Cornelia, Blake is home to a population of approximately 60 people, most of whom farm and vend.