Stabroek Weekend

When I saw the promotional material rolling out for R F Kuang’s latest novel, Babel, I immediately put it on my to-be-read list.

When I started writing this column in 2022, I began with a fundamental method of looking at works of art.

Introduction Today’s column reports on the third concept that frames my representation of Guyana as a Petrostate, that is the role of happenstance in the nation’s world-class petroleum finds.

Last Update: 1,693.257                    Movement: – 0.012% Current Update: 1,693.052               YTD Movement: 4.386% LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index lost 0.012 percent during the second period of trading in April 2023 on the sale of 80,226 shares.

Border World Court rules against Venezuela’s preliminary objection on border case: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) last Thursday ruled in Guyana’s favour that its case before it seeking to affirm the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Award settling the boundaries between it and Venezuela is admissible; and that the United Kingdom has no place in the proceedings as Caracas has sought to argue.

Social worker Poshia Bryan was plunged into heartbreak and hardship in 1998 when her then husband migrated leaving her to fend for herself and six children between the ages of 4 and 15 years old and reportedly marrying someone else before they divorced.

Intending to create influential and impactful leadership in companies, Dr Shanti Persaud last week commissioned her state-of-the-art Lead to Influence training facility at Lusignan, a close to $200 million investment.

Big tree fall down, goat bite he leaf. Where are the trees?

The number on the scale should not be your sole measure of progress.

Introduction Last week I displayed the macroeconomic underpinnings in the claim several have made to the effect that “Guyana is the newest petrostate in the Americas”.

Love of sport is woven into the fabric of my long life.

On 7 June 2022 Venezuela submitted to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) a second preliminary objection based, on this occasion, on the argument that the United Kingdom is an indispensable third party, without the consent of which the Court cannot adjudicate upon the dispute.

In 1979, there was a strong grandmaster chess tournament in Munich in which Dr Helmut Pfleger, a grandmaster himself, sought to monitor the heart rates of players.

Have you ever woken up late in the morning, when the sun has fully risen, and the light that filters in through your window is no longer golden, but bright and white?

Do you find that unlike Christmas, there’s a certain ease at Easter?

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies cricket Roger Seymour reminisces on the final day of a Test Match in Barbados.

There is a term that gets bantered about a lot in Guyana.

“It wasn’t the easiest thing and I had to battle with it, but now, looking back, I believe I made the right decision and have no regrets.

On Holy Week Malefactor (Left) So you is God? Den teck wi down!