Stabroek Weekend

Tradition gathers around Christmas. Pageants and homecomings and longed-for preparations repeat themselves year after year into beloved lifetime rituals.

The Christmas Season this year will give us at least three clear holidays, and four for office workers.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour recounts a Test match played during the Season of Christmas.

Christmas is upon us! And there is hope and excitement for the potential granting of the wish lists – in part, but better yet, in full! 

Candidate Master Taffin Khan took the second game of the two-best-in-three playoff to defeat Loris Nathoo and claim the title of National Chess Champion 2023 on Wednesday evening at the Ocean Spray Hotel. 

If you had difficulties following through with your exercise plans for 2023, you’re not alone.

Last week we examined the evidential and conclusive presumptions contained in Guyana’s Sexual Offences Act 2010.

By Abigail Headley It is a widely-held belief, in Guyana and possibly the Caribbean, that men dislike Christmas because they are often burdened with the responsibility of cleaning and spending money.

Today we take the opportunity to revisit the poetry of Edward Alston Cecil Baugh (January 10, 1936 – December 9, 2023), generally known as Eddie Baugh, one of the foremost giants of Caribbean literature in our time. 

Have you ever found yourself wondering why you do not fit in like everybody else?

Border Controversy Work underway on Argyle Declaration: The persons who will form the joint commission to be established under the Declaration of Argyle for Dialogue and Peace between Guyana and Venezuela are in the process of being selected, as Takuba Lodge hailed Thursday’s meeting in St Vincent and the Grenadines as “mutually beneficial.”

After 33 years in the local tourism industry that he helped to build, Tony Thorne, an Australian-born Guyanese tour operator and managing director of Wilderness Explorers, would like to see more lodges opened across the hinterland to boost the growing demand for Guyana’s unique sustainable tourism products as visitor arrivals increase with more airlifts becoming available. 

The three Guyanese who participated in the Mr and Miss Deaf International pageant in Tanzania acquitted themselves well, resulting in two of them earning top places.

Teija Edwards had harboured a dream of becoming an astro-nomer, driven by her fascination with the stars and the vastness of the universe.

So folks, in a week’s time, it will be the eve of the day!

Fish ah play ah sea, he nah know watah ah boil fuh am.

Last week we looked at the definition of consent in Guyana’s Sexual Offences Act 2010.

After a hiatus due to COVID-19, Empire Media Inc said that its Armageddon Sound Clash will return with a bang on January 27th and will see some $1 million up for grabs.

CARICOM’s Regional Cultural Committee (RCC) convened its Thirtieth Meeting virtually from 12-13 December 2023 which focused on ‘Building a resilient culture sector in the Region’.