Stabroek Weekend

It’s unlikely that many are tuning into the latest film in the MonsterVerse franchise, for the human characters.

On March 23 last, Lloyd N De Arts Productions, in partnership with students of the Tutorial High School in Georgetown, staged a production titled “The Chosen” at the Theatre Guild Playhouse.

Beauty is perhaps one of the most dangerously versatile words in the world.

“Sometimes I does really can’t decide because I understand, yeah, that I have to put my children first but then again how it can be selfish for me to want to at least get some joy out of life.

I think that one of the best ways to show you appreciate someone is by offering them your time and effort.

 In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour recalls one of the colourful characters who was an integral part of the local cricket scene from the War Years (1940s) through the Fabulous Fifties and Swinging Sixties to the Disco Decade of the 1970s.

In his great book Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon, in writing about the reign of Titus Pius, commented in passing that history was “little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”

Introduction Today’s column closes off my re-visit of the Buxton Proposal, which I started in Q3 2023.

As exciting as cooking can be, we can get bored eating the same things, prepared the same way every time we eat them.

Accountability UN committee wants more steps against corruption: Concerned that the institutional framework to combat corruption is not yet sufficiently strong and effective, the UN Human Rights Committee (CCPR) yesterday called on Guyana to take  a raft of measures including protection of whistleblowers.

After decades of producing a range of musicals, jazz shows, classical shows, drama, storytelling and other productions, achieving some 300 productions on stage and in television, and hosting international artistes and groups, Gem Madhoo-Nascimento, 70, is now focusing on educational theatre.

Whether you spread it or dip into it, you will be wanting more of this delectable smoky, creamy eggplant puree.

In the last three decades of the 20th century Sonny Ramphal was at or near the centre of world affairs.

The annual Marlon Williams Chess Tournament is set for next Sunday, April 7th, at the Catholic Life Centre in Brickdam.

In “Immaculate”, Sister Cecilia (played by rising-star Sydney Sweeney) is a young nun whose new role at a remote Italian convent begins to threaten the limits of her faith, and then her life.

Some years ago, a now retired professor was on sabbatical from her Associate Dean position at the Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Agriculture and Food Sciences (CAFS) and she travelled to Guyana where she birthed a new programme at the University of Guyana.

Holidays are weirdly tortuous when you are an immigrant. It almost feels like an endless marathon, trying to recreate the magic of the holidays that you were once accustomed to,   knowing fully well it will culminate with feeling a profound sense of loss sandwiched in droplets of happiness and disappointment at having yet another season come around and still not managing to get it quite right.

Chatting with an artist friend resident across the ocean: Friend: What do you know of the museum that is being built?

Guyana is among the culturally fascinating countries where it is possible to have, in the same week, two separate holidays and a spiritual observance sacred to three different religions.

“As unbelievable as it sounds, my mother does not support me furthering my education.