Stabroek Weekend

I love rice. There is so much you can do with it.

By Stanley Greaves FRIDAY Today was payday. Waterfront workers received wages from the pay office of companies.

Exactly sixty years ago, as it happened in 2023 between Ding LIren and Ian Nepomniachtchi, Tigran Petrosian opposed Mikhail Botvinnik for the FIDE World Championship Chess Championship.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour returns to the dossier exploring the 15 losses incurred by the West Indies in the 115 Tests played between the 1980 Tour of England and the 1995 visit to New Zealand, during which they remained unbeaten in 29 Test series.

It’s often said that you shouldn’t skip leg day. However, I often walk in the gym and see many young men neglecting their legs for the more ‘glamourous’ body parts like the chest and arms.

Koby Wills saw his mom Magda Fiona-Griffith singing in church when he was a child and knew he wanted to be a singer.

Part 2 Introduction Today’s column focuses on Chapter 4 of the Guyana SCD 2020.

By Subhana Shiwmangal As its name implies, Mother’s Day is when mothers are honoured and celebrated.

Some weeks ago, the Chief Justice found that the Local Content Secretariat, a regulatory agency, had wrongly refused to issue a Local Content Certificate to Ramps Logistics.

Today as we celebrate Mother’s Day the journey into motherhood shared by two mothers in 2021 is reprinted.

The Poet                                                            The poet is a magician, The philosopher’s stone is his; It turns all baser metals To priceless rarities.

It seems not a day, and certainly not a week, passes without our stomachs being turned by appalling news of women cruelly abused, beaten and, often enough, murdered in headline – hot, red blood.

Do you ever find yourself running every day, but still stuck in one place?

If only we could truly enter into the reservoir of an artist’s imagination, what an experience that would be.

LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index declined 0.110 percent during the second period of trading in May 2023 on the sale of 1,637 shares.

Court Exxon ‘reviewing’ court ruling on insurance: ExxonMobil says it is reviewing last Wednesday’s court ruling by Justice Sandil Kissoon, which found the company in breach of its insurance obligations for its first oil project Liza 1, a decision that can have major ramifications.

Genevieve Ngosa Daniels used to leave home at 6 am in the middle of winter to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) in New York.

As a professional, civil engineer Egbert ‘Bert’ Carter could have migrated as so many others have done but he chose to remain in Guyana to contribute to its development, and the many projects he undertook are today testimony to his work in spite of the discrimination he faced because of his political affiliation.

By Nigel Westmaas Introduction An important turning point in the fight against the British imperial plantation system and global chattel slavery was the uprising in Guyana 200 years ago in August 1823.This