Stabroek Weekend

A very great asset is the ability to write well. Just as the gift of speech first separated man from animal, so has the ability to set speech down in written form gradually raised man up from his first beginnings as brute to the high level of science, art, and social organisation which he now precariously occupies.

She held her baby awkwardly as she tenderly looked into the child’s bright eyes.

A disruption in the nuts and bolts of our lives, apart from the irritation that comes with it, can sometimes also be instructive in showing us how much more efficient we are now in communicating or sourcing, in a variety of ways, compared to how we went about those things in the earlier, less complex, life pattern that many of us wish still applied.

Local government elections are to be held on November 12th. With the polls, the never-ending stream of suspicions have emerged as the Government established new local government units and merged others.

Because I got quite a lot of feedback from last week’s column, I decided to do a part 2 of it.

 The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha had the distinction of performing its 22nd production of Naya Zamana at the National Cultural Centre on August 25 last.

There are over three trillion trees around the world. October 5 is designated National Day of Tree Planting in Guyana.

The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 0.49 percent during the first period of trading in October, 2018. 

(Reuters) – People with Type 1 diabetes who are able to maintain good blood sugar control may reduce their long-term risk of developing dementia, a U.S.

LONDON (Reuters) – Sometime in the next few weeks, global oil consumption will reach 100 million barrels per day (bpd) – more than twice what it was 50 years ago – and it shows no immediate sign of falling.

OXFORD, England (Reuters) – A new method of analyzing images from CT scans can predict which patients are at risk of a heart attack years before it occurs, researchers say.

The Guyana team seeking eminence at the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia, entered the penultimate round of the competition with mixed fortunes albeit with more losses than victories.

The male Black-headed Antbird (Percnostola rufifrons) is mainly dark grey, with a black throat and crown.

Introduction Today’s column starts my evaluation of the Green Paper on Guyana’s Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), laid by the Government of Guyana (GoG) in the National Assembly on August 8th, 2018.

Hi Everyone, Ever felt like eating a savoury or sweet slice of a baked treat, and then groaned at the long process it will take to be made?

I have been overwhelmed with the responsibilities of life, so much so that I have started to neglect my hair.

I walked out of “Venom” with the dopiest smile on my face.

Dun Robin is a tiny village on the Corentyne highway. So small that it consists of approximately eight houses with about five families; it might just be the smallest village in the county of Berbice, or maybe in the entire country.

The woman lovingly attended to what appeared to be a small wound on the one of the child’s fingers.

It is sometimes the case with the international events surrounding us that an occurrence in a distant country can have relevance for us, in completely separate matters, in our homeland.