Stabroek Weekend

“I was in a job that was slowly draining me. I couldn’t believe I was there for so long as I had given myself just about two years but yet eight years later, I was still there and it was not doing good for me.

Gregory Peck, an American actor, once said, “Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.”

There is something deeply traumatising about navigating online social spaces in moments of absolute political turmoil and instability.

Prologue  On 8th January, 1987, it was announced that the 1988 Australia Tour of the West Indies had been cancelled.

Joseph Brodsky, the great Russian poet who died at the sadly young age of 56, on receiving his Nobel Prize in the Grand Hall of the Swe-dish Academy in Stockholm in December, 1987, declared a great truth: “There is no doubt in my mind that, should we have been choosing our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programmes, there would be much less grief on earth.”

The boastful bravado of the Nicolas Maduro/Delcy Rodriguez political duopoly, mirroring the audacious and nefarious plots of the Venezuelan ruling elite, has been dented by the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Debbie Joseph-Hopkinson, 53, interim director of the Institute for Human Resilience, Strategic Security and the Future, University of Guyana and president of the Guyana Association of Professional Social Workers (GAPSW) has slowly but surely climbed the academic and professional ladders by following due process.

Miss Coverden Joel Perry won the Miss East Bank pageant, besting 11 other young women, who represented their villages with pride.

The Atta Rainforest Lodge in the Iwokrama Rainforest Reserve, has been numbered at ten of 15 in an article titled “The Lodges with a front row seat onto South America’s epic landscapes”, published in The Times newspaper of the United Kingdom.

Well, truth be told, it’s oven time all year round in the Caribbean, although I know that many of us took a break from this cooking appliance during the heatwave we experienced for weeks this year.

I do not get the impression that the governance of the world is good or that it is getting better.

“If there are ten doors you could go through and only one you must go through, a kind God closes the other nine.”

Howl, howl, howl!  O you are men of stones. Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so That heaven’s vault should crack.

As the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) continues to roll out its school chess manoeuvres, overseas-based Guyanese Raymond Singh, a former 1980s GCF champion, has donated 2,000 chess sets to Guyana to use in the school system.

The most interesting aspect about human beings is our ability to evolve.

Next month, the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation will stage its flagship National Senior Championships.

Introduction Today’s column engages the  fifth of the six listed social protection mechanisms [state employment] that are widely utilized to address persistent poverty in emerging oil-rich economies.

The confrontation between the Government and the Georgetown City Council has gone on for far too long and should now come to an end.

I know many of us sisters are getting anxious. Why? Christmas is just 30 days away.