Stabroek Weekend

Regardless of who we are or how different we are from each other, there is one thing that we will always love and protect – our common home.

The importance of using clear, accurate language in explaining the problems that face a nation like Guyana cannot be too strongly emphasized.

The heavy fall a few days ago of 80-year-old President Biden, after stumbling on a sandbag in his path, does not reflect the quality of his negotiating skills.

Introduction Judging from the frequent feedback, which readers of this column regularly provide to me it seems they are very impressed by the exceptional speed with which Guyana has been able to move from its First Find [May 2015] to its First Oil [December 2019].

Tragedy Nineteen die in Mahdia dorm arson: Deep sorrow and shock gripped the small Region Eight town of Mahdia and other hinterland communities after arson obliterated a girls secondary school dormitory on Sunday night claiming 19 lives with another nine hospitalised in Georgetown.

Guyanese Alicia Bess-Anderson, who has been successful at several local and international pageants in the past, returned to form earlier this month when she walked away with the crown at the Believe to Achieve Foundation’s sixth Miss International Elegant Mothers Pageant held in St Maarten.

Monday morning, May 22, we all woke to shocking and horrific news!

I saw a post on social media last week on the Tourism Guyana page that had me salivating, and a caption that made me think.

Today I want to look at nutrition facts that seem pretty obvious but a lot of people appear to miss.

Guyana is mourning. We have experienced the worst mass fire in our history and 19 children (18 of them girls) lost their lives.

Guyanese literature was highly celebrated last February with the return of the Guyana Prize for Literature and its concomitant Literary Festival during the Republic anniversary observations.

Having spent more than half of his life wrapped up in academia at the University of Guyana (UG) and the University of the West Indies (UWI), Dr Mark Kirton is currently working quietly in the background at home but with his heart still on tertiary education.

Chess was designed to provide endless hours of enjoyment and pleasure to the person who indulges it.

Not a single word or words stringed together will ever be able to bring any sense of comfort to the family and friends reeling from pain after learning that they have lost loved ones in the Mahdia dorm fire.

LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index declined 0.132 percent during the fourth period of trading in May 2023 on the sale of 131,073 shares.

Introduction The main focus of today’s column is to wrap-up consideration of the World Bank’s Staff Conclusions reached in its Guyana SCD (Systematic Country Diagnostic), 2020.

Leading up to the 57th Anniversary of Guyana’s Independence, a searing tragedy occurred in which fire destroyed the girls’ dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School and took the lives of 19 children, all but one being girls.

A Lost Girl Speaks Do not consider that I lived in vain consider I lived a while in wonder and will now forever live for you.

William Thijs, who describes himself as a former dancer, who is passionate about the growth and evolution of dance in Guyana, has secured the Hip Hop International franchise, which will allow Guyanese the opportunity to participate in the World Hip Hop Dance Competition (WHHDC).

Aristotle, a Greek philosopher once said “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”