Before Christopher Belfield was admitted to the bar on October 27th, 2023, he juggled a consuming lifestyle, striving to balance his academic pursuits with numerous extra-curricular activities, including sports and theatre.
By Miranda La Rose
Juggling motherhood and running a boutique hotel with her husband while trying to maintain its heritage steeped in the sugar industry were no mean feats for hotelier Dee George but she made them look easy.
I miss my mother.
In preparing for this week’s column, and because it happens to be on Mother’s Day, I decided to go through the columns I have written over the years related to Mother’s Day.
Introduction
Last week’s column asserted that, National Budget 2024 did confirm Guyana’s key macro and micro economic performance indicators support the notion of a robust consolidation of its newly acquired status as the newest and fastest growing Petrostate in the Americas.
The South Rupununi Conservation Society’s Senior Ranger Nicholas Cyril recently travelled to Peru where he along with other participants shared their knowledge on community approaches for the design of carbon projects.
I found people liked to recall the royalty of his name and nature but thought that King was too high and mighty so they named him a prince of men and that somehow seemed right.
Marxism has been in the news recently with our governing political party, the PPP, finally removing it from its constitution on the ground that it’s an ‘ism,’ a relic of the past.
Voyeurism
Last week we examined the offence of exposure of the genitals under section 28 of the Sexual Offences Act, Cap 8:03, Laws of Guyana (SOA), we learned it is an offence for a person to intentionally expose his genitals to another with the intention that the person who sees will be alarmed of distressed.
The headline aptly describes motherhood. While it can be considered the most important job in the world, motherhood (or parenting) is mostly learnt on the job.
From February 22 to March 24, 2024 Dennis de Caires’s collection of recently completed paintings showed at the Barbados Museum & Historical Society in the exhibition titled “Wuh Part You Is?”
The ancient township of New Amsterdam in Berbice has still managed to resist the hurly-burly of modern development and retain quite a feel of its long existence as an old urban district with an old world, if not colonial, atmosphere.
Cricket threat
CARICOM security agency advises of possible terror threat to T20 World Cup: CARICOM’s agency for crime and security has advised regional governments of a possible Islamic State threat to the upcoming men’s T20 World Cup in June which will be played in Guyana, other parts of the Caribbean and the United States.
By Miranda La Rose
The poignant yet inspirational novella “Until We Meet Again” on the life and times of the late 20-year-old Annabelle Rianne Drepaul, is a tribute written by her father, Guyanese musician and entertainer John ‘Slingshot’ DrePaul.
By Rae Wiltshire
On April 25th “Old Toy Train”, written by Kevin Garbaran, which I co-directed with him, was screened at the British High Commissioner’s residence.