Stabroek Weekend

If you’re having trouble unwinding after long days or weeks, you’re not alone.

First coined as an acronym for some emerging economies in 2001, BRIC countries formally emerged in 2009 at a diplomatic meeting in Russia involving Brazil, Russia, India and China.

Congratulations to Jessica Callender, 21, for winning the 2023 Women’s Chess Championship without losing a game.

Whenever, as a child, I forgot my table manners or just general etiquette, I recall my elders nagging that it showed that I had no “broughtupsy”. 

Introduction In today’s column I recap the gist of those earlier columns that were directed at taking stock of the prevailing condition of three key parameters facing Guyana’s oil and gas sector, on the eve of the planned switch away from the fiscal metrics of the Stabroek Block PSA, to the new fiscal template scheduled for implementing at intended public auctions.

As I contemplated this week’s column, the sunshine had long receded and the feeling of being slowly rotisseried over the past weeks had vanished.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour explores the lore surrounding one over in a Test match at Kensington Oval, Barbados The island grinds to a halt.

Former educator Berkeley Wendell Semple, 56, a two-time winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature, Poetry category, in 2004 and in 2022, who is now putting together his fifth volume of poems for publication, found inspiration to write during his years of serving the USA in the military during Desert Storm and while stationed at sea.

Cheese on Bread is a well-known Bajan saying that is an exclamation of amazement.

Guyanese reggae band First Born is set to soon release a single from an upcoming album, ‘The Truth Must Prevail’.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymourexplores the lore surrounding one over in a Test match at Kensington Oval, Barbados As an event or a tale acquires folklore status distortions are liable to occur as it passes from generation to generation.

On Friday, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport was to have hosted “The 1823 Bicentennial Cultural Festival and Concert” on the grounds around the 1823 monument on the Kitty seawall.

When yuh deh in bad luck wet paper self ah cut yuh!

The Lucas Stock Index fell 0.371 percent during the second period of trading in August 2023. 

Introduction Except, perhaps for the case of my similarly long series of columns dealing with the Buxton Proposal on direct cash transfers to the poor, I have never received so many requests to re-cap a series in order to aid comprehension of the many new concepts introduced in my presentation on an individual topic, as in the case of my discussion of the treatment of the planned public auctions of oil and gas rights.

Eleven youth chess players are currently representing Guyana at the nine-round, round-robin Central American and Caribbean (CAC)  Championship from August 20th to August 27th in Trinidad and Tobago.

Oftentimes, I would see a few individuals working out in the morning and then once more in the evenings.

The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins – glancing and incandescent – is some of the most extraordinary to be found in English.

The Demerara Rebellion of 18 August 1823 was a seminal event in the history of enslaved resistance in British Guiana and in the colonial world.

As a trainee or professional artist, nothing beats seeing art in person and seeing lots and lots of it.