Stabroek Weekend

From last Thursday “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare opened for a series of shows for schools at the National Culture Centre.

Last week, we examined Section 23 of the Sexual Offences Act, Cap 8:03, Laws of Guyana (the “SOA”), which criminalises the act of obtaining sexual activity from individuals with mental disorders through inducement, threat, or deception.

You know the proverb, necessity is the mother of invention, right?

The massive marvels of architecture constantly take various forms around us.

There is something about trying to lose weight that feels almost impossible and pointless in the beginning.

Dave Martins, a legend of Guyanese music, culture, and literature celebrated his 90th birthday last week.

Introduction Regular  readers would recall that I used national budget 2023 to portray Guyana’s macro-economic and micro-economic foundations as satisfying the standard definitional prerequisites for a nation designated to be a Petrostate.

On Sunday May 5, the Promenade Gardens, Middle Street, Georgetown, will be the venue for a Cuban and Latin American cultural festival that will kick off at 2 pm, as part of the efforts of the tourism sector to promote event tourism The festival, titled “Fiesta Cubana” will be hosted by Global Tours and Travel in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in Guyana and is being sponsored by the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited, Sky High Dominicana Airlines, Mobile Money Guyana and Massy Distribution Guyana Inc, a Global Tours and Travel release stated.

As at Wednesday last, after six rounds in the 2024 FIDE World Champion-ship Candidates Chess Tournaments, 17-year-old Indian grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh and Tan Zhongyi of China had taken the lead, but the race remained wide open.

Haiti is marked today in the regional imagination by notions, images and stigmas of poverty, violence, tragedy, political chaos, gang control, and disastrous foreign interventions, but these perceptions, while generally true, only scratch the surface of a nation with a rich and complex history.

Yuh gat fuh blow yuh nose where yuh stump yuh toe!

Border controversy Gov’t, opposition slam Venezuela over further escalation of illegal claim: The government and the opposition last Thursday condemned Venezuela’s latest activation of legislation to annex Guyana’s Essequibo region, noting that it violates the Argyle Agreement signed in December last year.

By Abigail Headley Romaine Benn is a 32-year-old Barbados-based entrepreneur originally from the West Coast Berbice, who has faced her fair share of ups and downs in life.

Bradford Allicock, the incumbent toshao of Fairview Village in the North Rupununi, has been involved with the Iwokrama River Lodge and the rainforest reserve from the inception.

“Because I don’t like the disrespect, I said okay… I’m just going to go and work on my own and that is how Lifestyle Concierge came about as a full-time role rather than a part-time role,” Rashawna Alleyne said.

By Antonio Dey Twenty-two-year-old Annada Aaliyah Anthon is adamant that she can take her dual talents of transformative make-up and celebrity impersonation to the next level.

The Lucas Stock Index grew 0.857 percent on the sale of 77,625 shares during the first period of trading in April 2024. 

Guyanese need no evidence of the perfidy of Venezuela. Before the ink was dry on the Geneva Agreement signed in February 1966 and on the Order in Council granting Independence to Guyana from British colonialism in May 1966, Venezuela invaded Guyana’s half of Ankoko in October 1966 and has since been in illegal occupation of the island.

Five tournament-size chess sets were recently donated to the Houston Secondary School on the East Bank Demerara by the group Overseas Friends of Guyana Chess.

Over the next 4 or 5 weeks we will examine and break down provisions under the Sexual Offences Act, Cap 8:03, Laws of Guyana (“the SOA)” which exist to protect vulnerable adults.