Stabroek Weekend

The three-part series on the ‘Big Three’ lifts concludes this week with the bench press.

Introduction Today’s column engages the IMF’s recent publication on Universal Basic Income, UBI schemes as a direct complement to last week’s, which engaged the World Bank study on the same topic.

(Conversation Tree expresses its sincere condolences to the GDF and to the families and friends of Guyana’s brave and intrepid military officers who lost their lives while protecting and defending us).

How can anyone, at this point, muster up any joy to celebrate Christmas?

Being a young person is a beautiful experience. Being young means that you are quite new to the world.

Christmas is the most auspicious time of the year when hearts and minds think of dear ones and succumb to those who need.

I thought about using today’s column to speak about the ongoing Guyana-Venezuela controversy, but decided against it because it seems that the public is saturated with information on the related facts and law.

Border controversy ICJ rules in favour of Guyana: Recognizing the referendum which Venezuela had planned for tomorrow (December 3rd) as a seriously “urgent,” “real” and “imminent” threat to the rights which Guyana currently has to the Essequibo, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued a warning of refrain to Venezuela.

By Abigail Headley “I give all glory to God for the great things He has done in my life and for allowing me to recognize the potential I had hidden inside of me.

By Miranda La Rose Harold Bascom, self-taught in every sphere of his professional life, is an award-winning playwright, artist/illustrator, stage director and author.

Let’s gyaff! What are you thinking about for the Christmas menu?

The Lucas Stock Index fell 0.136 percent during the final period of trading in November 2023. 

Introduction Today’s and next week’s column combine to form a preface to my intended task of updating the Buxton Proposal.

By Rae Wiltshire Vibert Dummett is an artist who specialises in portrait drawings, paintings, and designs (fashion), with a penchant for using household bleach to create patterns on cloth.

I have read numerous pieces of written work in which the author begins by stating something along the lines of: ‘I thought for hours on how to begin this piece.’

In the run-up to the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation’s National Senior Championships next month, and after detailing the benefits of the deadlift last week, this column looks at the squat aka the king of lifts.

(BBC) As the world reflects on the cultural significance of hip-hop in the year of its 50th anniversary, the power of its origins are more significant than ever.

Could an individual game in the single round robin event between Loris Nathoo, an improved 1700 player, and Taffin Khan, a 2000 FIDE competitor, signal the switch of the Guyana National Chess Championship title?

As noted in last week’s article, “Bernadette Indira Persaud AA – A visual poet…mostly in her words”, Persaud had a predilection for art as a child which she nurtured whenever opportunities arose.

(Reuters) Rape is widespread amid the war in Sudan. Young women from the ethnic-African Masalit tribe say they were sexually assaulted at gunpoint by RSF paramilitary and Arab militia forces during attacks on the city of El Geneina in West Darfur.