Stabroek Weekend

Ten years ago, Henry Selick’s “Coraline” premiered as the first feature from animated movie studio Laika.

Do you sometimes feel like you’re overloaded with stress? As if your boss is constantly getting on your last nerve?

New Scheme, Patentia is not so new anymore; it has been in existence for more than 50 years and is home to hundreds.

By now everyone is aware the Chief Justice ruled that the no-confidence vote stands.

I usually post these articles on Facebook on Saturday evenings. Articles dealing with political issues usually attract a great deal of comment.

Certain aspects of Caribbean life can produce various rages in our people, with the ingredients to cause such maladies in the population as high blood pressure, copious perspiration, bulging veins in the neck, and stomach pains.

Perhaps my oldest memory—I must have been two or three—is of my mother hugging me at night when she put me into bed and holding the palms of my hands together while she said a simple prayer, which I soon learned by heart.

“Where were you last night? Where were you last night? You want knock me, you knock me,” the woman saying this was speaking to a man; she had grabbed his collar and was tugging and hitting him as she fired off the questions.

The audience at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) was entertained and enlightened by a fairly unique theatrical experience on Saturday, February 2, with “Musings of A Poet” produced and performed by the National Drama Company (NDC) of Guyana.

Chess got off to a roaring beginning this year as two successive tournaments were held in late January and early February.

Introduction Last week’s column indicated that, based on three published estimates of Guyana Government Take, the Strategic Road Map is premised on the country receiving the average of these estimates – 55 percent.

pPlumeria commonly called Frangipani originated in tropical America and quickly spread across the Caribbean and Guyana.

The Dusky Antbird (Cercomacra tyrannina) is found across much of middle America, from southeast Mexico southwards, thence across much of northern South America south as far as northern Brazil.

The New Year has come and gone. Did you make a New Year’s resolution?

Last Update: 537.17                                        Movement: 2.48% Currebt Update: 523.86                                  YTD Movement: -1.75% The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) declined 2.48% during the first period of trading in February, 2019.

You might call it Great Cake, Black Cake, Christmas Cake, Rum-fruit Cake – whatever you like, many folks believe that without this cake, there is no Christmas.

Luxury has a different meaning for everyone. For some it could be reflected in the types of purchases made and for others it could mean living completely organic lives.

The title of the thriller/psychodrama/melodrama “Serenity” is a misnomer. The film justifies the title because Serenity is the name of a boat where a great deal of the film’s action is set.

Sitting snugly between Annandale and Hoff van Aurich on the Essequibo Coast, is the beautiful village of Zorg en Vlygt with the Atlantic to the east and rice fields just opposite.

Probably because it causes disruptions of varying levels in our lives, we tend to see change as something revolutionary, one of a kind, when in fact it is always going on.