Life is so busy in this day and age and it can often feel difficult to get to the gym, prepare your meals, go to work, spend quality time with friends and family and somehow schedule in downtime all before it’s time to get to bed (and preferably at a reasonable hour).
An integral part of the life of someone involved in the arts is the recognition or attention that comes from the public reacting to the particular area of the artist’s work.
Introduction
This week’s column continues my evaluation of what I had earlier labelled: “a non-exhaustive list of the top-10 economic challenges”, which the Government of Guyana (GoG) will have to confront with First Oil due in 2020.
Last Update: 585.19 Movement: -0.15%
Current Update: 584.31 YTD Movement: 13.49%
LUCAS STOCK INDEX
The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) declined 0.15% during the second period of trading in September 2019.
Politics
Lengthy gap between Nomination, Election days in draft timeline for polls: The draft schedule of timelines presented by the Secretariat of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) includes a 55-day gap between Nomination Day and Elections Day, we published on September 9th, according to a source.
I think the Victoria Secret supermodel era is enjoying its final moments of desire, if there is actually any left; a change that is pretty much welcomed by most women.
“I have been here before.”
It’s a line from a Dante Gabriel Rossetti poem that is repeated multiple times throughout the William Nicholson film “Hope Gap” and you’ll be thinking about it as the film ends.
“The personal is political.”
That sentence has taken on a life of its own since the sixties, going from a slogan of second-wave feminism to a socio-cultural observation of the relationship between the public and the private in an ever-changing world.
Elections in March 2020, after a no-confidence motion in December 2019, mandating elections in three months, is an intolerable constitutional travesty.
When the results of Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations were released last month, Houston Secondary was not featured among the schools turning out top performers.