Stabroek Weekend

According to gym lore, you should train at least three times a week if you want to gain muscle or build strength.

The Ash-throated Crake is a secretive bird often found in flooded wetlands. 

It is hard to claim that GuySuCo’s losses on the scale now obtaining – leading to the diversion of precious taxpayer’s revenue from education and health for instance – can be sustained much longer.

Hi Everyone, Eat and drink your belly full of sweet juicy watermelon but don’t toss the rind; cook it.

Growing up, I recollect hearing of two golden rules when it came to dressing.

The Humanities, at its best, teaches us to think and to consider the act of creativity.

Introduction My two previous columns (April 30 and May 7) were devoted to, respectively, the main findings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 2013, and the World Bank’s 2013 evaluation/research of the lessons to be learned from global experiences with local content requirements/policies (LCRs) in the oil and gas sector.

Equitable According to remarks made by a high official of the health services, in examining the attributes of an effective health care system, Guyana appears to be far from having a good health care system. 

Endeavour is on the eastern end of the island of Leguan in the Essequibo River and home to less than 200 residents, most of whom farm for a living.

In Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon, 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.”

‘Inappropriate recusals are potentially very damaging.’ This statement begins the concluding portion of an article by Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku, Professor of Law, Brunel University, London, UK, entitled ‘Inappropriate Recusals’ in The Law Quarterly Review, April 2016.

In my early days travelling the Caribbean with Tradewinds, my head immersed in music, tourism to me was essentially a somewhat monolithic operation, made up largely of airplanes, hotels, white-sand beaches, and blue water; that’s how it struck me.  

Arrival Day, May 5, is taken very seriously in Guyana, politically, culturally and in the general life of the people.

The White-crowned Mana-kin like others in its family is a small, compact bird and is found throughout the Guianas. 

The first column on January 29, featured the experience of a battered woman’s struggle in dealing with a system that is not friendly towards women like her and dealing with her husband whose only intent is for her to return to their matrimonial home.

Using the same weights or machines can become monotonous and boring and nothing kills an exercise regime like monotony.

The second leg of the 2017 World Chess Grand Prix competition to determine the challengers for the 2018 Candidates’ tournament began last Friday in Russia.

This peasant dish of ground meat and mashed potatoes feeds a crowd, and at its best, it is comfort food.

I have written so much on trees in the city, but my warnings and advice continue to fall on deaf ears.

Hi Everyone, The month of May brings Mother’s Day and Mother’s Day brings meals, and memories.