Pain Hustlers, a drama about the opioid epidemic, is “too worried about being a downer to be convincing”, writes Caryn James as the film premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Henry Muttoo (MBE), a wise arts-man of the Caribbean, in August said as he accepted a Guyana Cultural Association of New York Lifetime Achievement Award, “Give the people not what they want but what they should want.”
Introduction
In both my initial column in the series on the public auction of oil block rights and the likely remaining opportunity window for successful Guyana crude oil exportation and my later re-cap of this column, I have remained steadfast in my view that this window is likely to last until the decade of the 2050s.
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour looks at an historic Test match between England and the West Indies
Prologue
“Upon all the new settlements the Spaniards make, the first thing they do is build a church, the first thing the Dutch do upon a new colony is to build them a fort, but the first thing ye English do, be it in the most remote part of ye world, or amongst the most barbarous Indians, is to set up a tavern or drinking house,” attributed to English Sea Captain Thomas Walduck (who was possibly a privateer), in a letter to John Searle, his nephew in London, 1708, on the Historic London Town and Gardens website.
A day is dulled and dimmed if it passes and I do not pick up a book of poems in my library, browse in some anthology, find a new poem in some magazine or at least before my eyes shut glance at some old favourite lines from Hopkins, Walcott, Yeats, Carter or a score of other supreme masters of the art and craft of making poems.
Thirty years ago, in September 1993, two separate World Championship matches were played in the Netherlands and England for the first and only time in chess history.
By Deneita Fredericks
A culinary sensation is making waves. Althea Brown, a 41-year-old US-based Guyanese and devoted mother of three, has launched her much-anticipated cookbook, “Caribbean Paleo”.
On August 19, the Stabroek News reported that the government is willing to make necessary interventions in the foreign exchange (FX) market in order to enable the smooth access to hard currencies.
The Barbados Crop Over festival came to an end last month with many Guyanese joining the thousands of visitors to the island for a high-energy, events-packed week and many are urging fellow citizens to go experience the diversity of the carnival-like celebrations for themselves.