Stabroek Weekend

Eating healthy is all the rage today. Scroll through Instagram’s explore page and you will see what appears to be a million and one voices shouting at you to be healthy.

In a mid-year movie season that feels built on familiar tropes (the current slate of films in cinemas affirms this), the recent digital-release “Teen Spirit” probably seems too apt.

To some, Weusi and Vilma Tafawa, who hail from Buxton and Bachelor’s Adventure, respectively, might appear to be thrill seekers, but the couple, both aged 70, did not decide overnight to climb Africa’s tallest mountain.

By Kevin Garbaran “Jumbie is not real” is what nine year old Devika had come to believe after her teacher interjected the idea into a conversation she was having with two of her friends during lunch break.

By Nigel Westmaas In a long search through public records, newspapers, books and other sources over several years, I managed to unearth, at last tally, roughly 95 plus “formally announced” political parties from the Dutch colonial period right until the present.

If current job postings in the local press and on online platforms are any guide, companies are hiring and, in some cases, recruiting apprentices.

By Alim Hosein The awards ceremony for the 2019 Guyana Visual Arts Com-petition was held at the National Cultural Centre on Thursday June 27, and the Guyana Visual Arts Exhibition was officially launched later the same evening by Minister of Social Cohesion George Norton at the National Gallery of Art.

There is a lovely Rupununi hammock in our house; one which has given me much relaxation and sound sleep recently.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ruled that the Guyana National Assembly “properly passed” a no-confidence motion (NCM) against the Government on December 21.

In last week’s column, I touched on tips for a better night’s rest and subsequently received numerous emails on the subject.

Every now and then, I travel up the Essequibo River to spend weekends in a small house set on the bank in a clearing of white sand cut from the jungle. 

A few weeks ago we spoke about workplace burnout. This week, we will look at taking that much needed vacation.

What construction entails Construction can be described as the activities required to form and assemble materials and components to make infrastructure products, fixed to the land, with such products to be utilised in the place where constructed, by the society and human community as a whole. 

The diagram represents a puzzle which was created in 1968 by eminent Hungarian-American chess grandmaster and world championship candidate Pal Benko.

Based on the show’s track record, you may have been expecting the new season of Stranger Things to be jam-packed.

As we headed along the De Hoop Branch Road, Mahaicony, the driver of the vehicle was pointing out the villages we passed.

PoliticsCCJ dubs gov’t ‘caretaker’ but elections date a no-go: The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday, July 12th, declined to fix timelines for general elections, which it says should be held in accordance with the Constitution following the December 21st, 2018 passage of a motion of no-confidence against the APNU+AFC government and it has also established that a “caretaker” administration now exists.

“At one time, he didn’t want to go back to school and it was hard to get him to go.

Last Update: 559.29                                              Movement: -1.77% Current Update: 549.41                                         YTD Movement: 6.71% The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) declined 1.77% during the second period of trading in July 2019. 

Introduction Today’s column measures the impact of applying my values for production, price, and Government Take (indicated in Part 1 of Guyana’s Petroleum Road Map), to Rystad Energy’s analytics.