Stabroek Weekend

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

Economy Ram pummels gov’t over management of economy: Focusing on the foreign exchange controversy, commentator and chartered accountant Christopher Ram has pounded the government over the management of the economy and has called for the exclusion of non-bank cambios and for more banking licences to foster increased competition.

We know that we mark our lives by rituals and traditions.

I have loved Poetry all my long life. It is impossible for me to name an all-time favourite – though Derek Walcott’s   A LETTER FROM BROOKLYN would be a contender.

The sun had dipped on the Atlantic Ocean and mosquitoes arrived out of the dense green vegetation bordering Hope Beach.

The constitutional reform process, 1999-2000, and other measures spawned by the Herdmanston Accord, sought to bring to an end the 1997 post-election violence.

Nisa Walker, the owner at Oasis Cafe turned 60 on March 17 and on Sunday (Mary 18th) she celebrated it with a bang at the Promenade Gardens in Georgetown. 

Introduction For the convenience of several enquiring readers, I begin today’s column with a brief recap.

Never before in Guy-ana’s history has there been 50 or more girls and women playing chess.

I have never learnt the names of flowers.                                             From beginning, my world has been a place Of pot-holed streets where thick, sluggish gutters race In slow time, away from garbage heaps and sewers Past blanched old houses around which cowers Stagnant earth.

A delegation from the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court recently conducted a study tour of the Sexual Offences Court here.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Roger Seymour looks at a Test Match that evolved into somewhat of a precursor of T20 cricket.

The land of baguettes, macarons and luxury has caught fire yet again and I don’t say such to gloat or make fun, but rather to serve as a reminder that even the most idealistic places that we tend to romanticise and idealise have their own problems.

Today my sister Svetlana Abrams tells the heart-warming journey of supporting her young daughter’s dream of becoming an entrepreneur.

Have you ever seen the surface of a lake at night?

Some 166 persons benefited from free spectacles last week, when a Ministry of Human Services and Social Security team held an outreach in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni).

If you are looking for ways to get the most of your workouts, I am here to help.

It is indeed fantastic that we can celebrate those from among us who leave for greener pastures, “make it”, as we say, then return, however temporarily, for perhaps refuelling or grounding.

Literature is a hobby for science student Samir Mohammed, who won the Guyana Prize for Literature for Short Story and the Guyana Prize for Literature for Poetry, in the Youth Male categories.

As she takes on the mandate to represent Guyana on the international stage, US-based Malika Manelva Blount is on a second journey to improve and develop the country’s health sector through her pageantry platform and the non-profit organisation she founded in 2018.