Stabroek Weekend

Introduction This week’s column addresses the fourth and final driver along with its modeled metrics; namely, operational cost of oil production share ratios in Guyana.

In this year’s Academy Awards a wonderful 11-minute film won the award for Best Animat-ed Short.

Fish and cast-net nah friend! Maybe Christopher and Dion should try not to get entangled!  

Dennis Villeneuve’s sequel to his 2021 foray into the world of Frank Herbert’s prose opens with the voice offering what seems, at first, to be a helpful reminder of what happened previously for audiences.

Gov’t, GTU differ over period for salary talks: After a four-week-long teachers’ strike that ended through court mediation, the government and the GTU met lats Thursday for talks and differences have emerged over the period that salary increases should pertain to.

Historian Dr Estherine Adams, whose manuscript, “The Few Among the Many: Women’s Labour in British Guiana’s Jails”, won the Non-Fiction Award in the 2024 Guyana Prize for Literature, is continuing to research and write with the aim of bringing clarity to some of the narratives that form part of Guyana’s colonial history.

Joel Browne was at the gym when a song idea for the Soca Monarch Competition struck him.

By Abigail Headley Osei Clarke’s journey to victory in this year’s Calypso competition involved dedication and hard work as he faced the challenge of preparing for not one, but three separate contests this year.

It’s the beginning of tomato season. Various sizes and shapes of the red plump fruit are piled high on stands; pieces of cardboard with their price per pound crookedly stuck between or at the side of them.

The first trading period in March 2024 saw the Lucas Stock Index decline by 0.829 percent on the sale of 81,715 shares. 

After a bounty year in 2023, dramatic performances have made a fair appearance so far in 2024. 

Each year, I use the weekend of the Academy Awards to write my last official post on the previous year in film, usually predicated on the relationship with the imminent Oscar winners.

The legacy of Dr. Cheddi Jagan emerges for consideration in March every year, the month of his birth and of his passing.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana Previously Fellow of the LSE and Fellow of Harvard University Michele Norris, a highly decorated American journalist, is the founding Director of the Race Card Project.

I am honoured to have been awarded the Guyana Prize for Literature (Poetry) for my book of poems Not Quite Without A Moon.

LONDON (Reuters) – Russia’s financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring, has added former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, a prominent critic of the Kremlin, to its list of “terrorists and extremists”, the RIA state news agency reported on Wednesday.

Retired civil engineer Agnes Dalrymple earned the title ‘Iron Lady’ for her no-nonsense approach to any lack of discipline in the predominantly male-dominated workforce she headed, and particularly in the sea defence area where she fought for funding to ensure the safety of people’s lives and infrastructure.  

Introduction Today’s column offers a wrap-up of the ABCs of hydrocarbons taxation, which I introduced in last week’s column.

One of the most significant concerns of the 21st century is technology and the way in which it affects the world view developed by our young people.

Last Friday, women around the world observed International Women’s Day. Some of us were actually involved in activities that recognised this day, others knew of the day but did not observe it in form while many women do not even know such a day exists.