Stabroek Weekend

A fitness journey, especially a new one can be intimidating. There are workouts to learn, diets to follow, willpower to conjure, and self-consciousness to overcome.

According to a Forbes report in 2020, Guyana is said to have the largest diaspora population in comparison to the rest of the world (36.4%).

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial tournament in which teams worldwide compete.

Introduction As indicated thus far, in my long-running oil and gas series, within the short period of only three and a half years after its First Discovery in May 2015, Guyana’s First Oil began in December 2019.

I looked at my shopping cart and checked my list to ensure that I picked up what I needed – 10 cans sardines, 8 cans tuna, 6 cans corned beef, 4 cans baked beans, 4 cans cured pork… You see, it’s hurricane season and I am stocking up and replenishing a few things.

Our world as it is today, is quite different from what it used to be.

Walter Rodney was assassinated by Gregory Smith, a sergeant of the Guyana Defence Force, by means of an explosive device, on June 13, 1980.

I once received a letter from a fifth-form student in England.

From performing in community musical theatre productions, small-town born and raised Canadian actress with Guyanese and Jamaican roots, Vanessa Sears, 30, has made her Broadway debut in the new musical “New York, New York”.

The other day, in preparation for a meal, I assembled some things on my plate that I did not cook, deliberately to be eaten together.

It was 2009. I was 15 years old and had attended the St Joseph High School fair with friends.

(BBC) Being half-fish, half-human isn’t quite a superpower, but Disney’s live-action Little Mermaid reinvents the animated classic for the age of Marvel movies, complete with kinetic action scenes and an endless overload of CGI.

Some 200 years ago, chess became a matter of personal challenge and international competition.

Considering Guyana’s small population and its cultural and linguistic isolation on the South American coast, curiosity is always the order of the day for me when I learn of Guyanese in strange and far-flung places.

Security ‘Smallie’, accomplice shot dead: After almost two weeks of intensive searching by the Joint Services, escaped death row prisoner Mark Royden Williams, also known as ‘Smallie’, and his accomplice were fatally shot by the Joint Services during what was described as a confrontation.

“Sometimes it is as if she is giving up on life and at other times well I just don’t know if it is living or just existing.

Guyanese-British actor and prize-winning poet Marc Matthews is one of the foremost dramatic, stage and literary personalities in the Caribbean.

It is June and the halfway point of 2023. Most gyms everywhere are starting to witness a decline in membership as the annual bump up fades and people start to give up on their New Year’s fitness goals.

Uncivilised, violent, devil worshipping and a country inherent in bad luck are some of the stereotypes most of us tend to believe of Haiti and Haitians.