Stabroek Weekend

LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index rose 0.045 percent during the fourth period of trading in July 2023. 

I have been asked why I don’t write about music or some other creative discipline.

As Emancipation Day approaches and we prepare for the annual festivities, I recall a segment on the Guyana Today morning show several years ago, in which the host was discussing with guests, granny ‘ole-time’ food.

The 2023 seven-round National Women’s Chess Qualifiers Tournament for selection to contest the National Championship has begun at the School of the Nations, Georgetown with four of the stars of last year’s Chess Olympiad in India, Sasha Shariff, Anaya Lall, Nellisha Johnson and Jessica Callender among those in contention.

Introduction Today’s column begins with a summary overview of the current state of affairs in regard to the proposed public oil block options in Guyana postponed from an initial mid-April due date to a new one, mid- July and them to September 12.

Have you ever made a terrible mistake and felt like the world was falling apart around you?

Recently, a trip to the cinema feels as if you are inside of a Pepto-Bismol bottle.

It is almost a ritual in itself that every year around the time of the anniversary of emancipation from slavery in the Caribbean, the people of the region turn their minds to a commemoration of African culture.

“It is like a fight for survival. You are anxious most of the times, because you don’t know what will be the next move.

Israel is in the throes of a struggle between opposing forces in support of its partly liberal democratic state and those proposing a fully neo-fascist one.

I have always loved sport. All my boyhood and youth I delighted in games.

Parliamentary Over $31b in extra spending approved by Parliament: The government on July 20th granted approval for $26,532,000,000 in supplementary provisions by the National Assembly to cover projects such as the replication of the Hope drainage canal in regions five and six and other sea defence projects.

In 1960s Guyana, a woman from Albion had recently returned from Mecca, which is considered Islam’s holiest city.

Having worked here in 1974 as a secondary school teacher fresh out of the University of the West Indies, Barbadian financial management and financial analysis consultant William Layne developed a love for Guyana.

“Someone to look up to, someone to brag about. Someone to hold and someone to cry with.

Calling all lovers of breadfruit. Here is something to add to your repertoire of things you make using breadfruit – fritters!

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour reviews a book documenting England’s Tour of the West Indies in 1986.

LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index rose 0. 735 percent during the third period of trading in July 2023. 

Introduction As indicated last week, today’s column will begin addressing 1] current estimation of Guyana’s recoverable crude oil resources 2] the fiscal metrics in the model PSA prepared for the impending public auctions of crude oil blocks; and, 3] policies linked to, or contingent upon, the public auctions of crude oil blocks.

“You gave me gifts, God-Enchanter.   I give you thanks for good and ill.