Stabroek Weekend

The World Junior Chess Championships end today in Gebze, Turkey, and Iran is set to make its presence felt in an unforgettable manner.

The White-winged Becard (Pachyramphus polychopterus) is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

A sense of impending danger pervades “The Dive.” The film never approaches the frontline of war but the presence of war permeates the surface throughout.

Hi Everyone, It is a combo with which all of us in the region are very familiar – breadfruit and salt fish.

Our consumption patterns are directly linked to our value system. No matter how we try to alter our perception of fashion, each time we consume it is directly linked to personal choice and a clear reflection of our politics and disposable income among other things.

The time is 1183. The place is Chinon. We are in the Angevin Empire.

While waiting in line for “A Star is Born” to begin, I engaged in my favourite hobby: recounting random movie trivia to strangers.

By Andrew Kendall in Toronto       “The Sisters Brothers” opens with gunfire.

By Andrew Kendall in Toronto   I made the mistake of glancing at a few reviews of Ashgar Farhadi’s “Everybody Knows” while I was working on my review.

  By Andrew Kendall in Toronto   At this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, there are two notable scenes from separate films, which seem to be speaking to each other across continents; the Kenyan film “Rafiki” and the American film “Boy Erased.”

Sandville is a new village; it was formally established 2 years ago, but some of its residents had settled there between 4 to 10 years ago.

“As educators we play the role of imparting knowledge to the nation’s children and as it relates to imparting knowledge, the job demands various roles depending on the age of the pupil and the level that we teach.

Those who advocate changes in the composition and method of selection of the members of the Elections Commission suffer from the ostrich syndrome.

I don’t know enough about the subject of animal nature to say why it’s so but for me the jury is in on the matter of mankind and animals, and the verdict is that dogs are the best.

In Guyana getting a good education is thought of as getting good exam results.

Anyone pursuing a ‘goal physique’ faces the same enemy: gnawing, remorseless hunger.

Wrap-up: Implementation Lags As promised last week, today’s column first indicates the main lessons to be learnt from other developing countries’ experiences in dealing with implementation lags when preparing for the coming on-stream of a relatively massive extractive petroleum sector such as Guyana’s.

Nine years ago, Kamala’s life was thrown into disarray when her husband died leaving her with three daughters, no job and no fixed place of abode.

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.