Stabroek Weekend

My Mom’s Mauby (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)
My Mom’s Mauby (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

My Mom’s Mauby

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.

Active Exploration/Adventure: A beautiful photograph of the Takutu Hotel in Lethem which offers the opportunity for early morning and evening hikes. Part of the description says that the “hidden gem offers a retreat from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.”  (Mark Peters’ photo)

Showcasing Guyana

The Ministry of Tourism Industry and Commerce has an ongoing photography competition in recognition of the country’s 58th Independence observance.

Breaking Down Sexual Offences

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.

Edgar Mittelholzer

Edgar Mittelholzer and Creole Chips

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.

This week-in-review April 28th to May 4th

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.

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