Stabroek Weekend

At thirteen, I think it was, I was reading love poetry.

Over the past two weeks there have been a number of newspaper comments complaining about the size of Guyana’s national debt.

Introduction In today’s column I commence an elaboration, in two parts, of the modeling of the petroleum metrics that undergird the Buxton Proposal.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour examines the controversy surrounding the infamous declaration by Sobers in a Test match in Trinidad in 1968, and poses the question, did Sobers really declare?

National junior chess champion Keron Sandiford made a bold statement two Thursday nights ago when he won the first Century 21 Grand Prix tournament of 2024.

Finance Singh unveils trillion-dollar budget: Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh last Monday announced that the budget for this year amounts to a historic, whopping $1.146 trillion when compared to $781.

Puerto Rican-American Janelle Mendez Viera is a survivor of military sexual violence and founder of the Military Sexual Trauma Movement.

Our review of the year 2023, started in these pages last week, found it to have been the best year for the arts in Guyana since COVID and going back for many years. 

“I really did think like when they get big you know things would get easier because you know I wouldn’t have to do things for them like before and you know we would just live and support one another.

Thomas Crum, an author and orator once said “The quality of our lives depend not on whether or not we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them.”

By Shuntel Glasgow The aspiration to one day write the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination remains alive for Jamal Reid as he battles with the changes to his physical and mental condition and as his healing takes its long and winding course.

Ezikel Alleyne started his journey as a storyteller during his primary school years.

Today, we will dissect two of the most crucial provisions under the Sexual Offences Act, Cap 8:03, Laws of Guyana (the Act), which criminalise specific sexual conduct involving children.

Introduction Today’s column continues my description of the nitty-gritty features or the key nuts and bolts of the universal basic income [UBI] mechanism, the Buxton Proposal, which I have long advocated for Guyana as the most effective means of eradicating its persistent poverty.

What’s Cooking is a series in which I answer questions and share advice about food and cooking that you may have but are too shy to ask.

Junior chess champion Keron Sandiford, Queen’s College student Kyle Couchman and Shazeeda Rahim reigned supreme at the recent Century 21 Grand Prix chess tournament, which was held at the Racquet Centre and the School of the Nations.

A little over halfway into  Bell Hooks’ book “All About Love: New Visions”, and my mind  cannot stop reshuffling memories of my past relationships, friendships, family dysfunction, and my own shortcomings when it comes to  consistently enacting a love ethic in all aspects of  my life.  

Stabroek News, as in past years, has highlighted the ‘Ram and McRae 2024 Budget Review,’ which provides a readable synopsis and commentary on the budget proposals.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour continues the calypso in cricket theme from last week, by looking at a calypso composed by a West Indian cricketer which was probably better known in Australia and New Zealand than in the West Indies.

From almost the first day I arrived in Guyana in 1955 I got to know Martin Carter.