Stabroek Weekend

Gym rats are not considered ‘the sharpest knives in the drawer,’ but at least we can still appreciate the immense value of hitting the gym with a sharp mind and intensely focused mentality.

One of the beautiful things about chess is that it consumes the player intellectually.

It was Hippocrates, an ancient Greek physician, who once said, “Before you heal someone, ask him if he’s willing to give up the things that make him sick.”

Writing this weekly column came about as a means to satisfy an itch to write about art in a less rigid and demanding way than academia requires.

“It kind of started as a joke,” says producer and screenwriter Jemima Khan, “where I would say to my friends— particularly those that were close to their parents and had parents that were sane and functional— who would your parents choose [for you to marry]?

One of the things we all look forward to at the holidays, regardless of which religious holiday or festival it is, is the food!

Introduction Over this week’s and the column to follow I shall provide a summary overview of ExxonMobil’s two consortium partners in crude oil and gas exploration, appraisal and production in Guyana, largely confined so far to the bountiful Stabroek block.

Chautal                               In the forest, the papiha bird’s epics stave off sleep.

2023 Soca Monarch, overseas-based Guyanese Adrian Dutchin said he is now ready to take a step back and explore other avenues for promoting Guyana as he is confident in the potential of upcoming local artists.

Guyana has the second highest rate of suicide in the world, a higher rate of death by violence than Mexico and is at 63rd place out of 183 countries in death by road accidents.

By Roger Seymour Roger Seymour revives his truncated weekly series, last published in September 2018 Thirty-two years ago the last edition of the West Indies Cricket Annual appeared on the shelves of bookstores, airport shops and drugstores across the Caribbean.

Most of the pictures of this year’s Trinidad Carnival that I saw, reminded me of the amplification and glorification of society’s fixation and obsession with thinness.

Transparency Guyana suspended from EITI: Guyana has been suspended from the global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) for failure to submit a report for 2020, sources tell Stabroek News.

Trinidad and Tobago-based Guyanese musician, writer and emerging poet Ruth Osman, 42, is poised to publish by mid-year, her first book of over 30 poems she has composed over the years as she continues to explore her creativity.

After much trial and error, Tasmin Pellew believes her signature instant split-pea cook-up rice now has the right texture and taste and can fulfil the cravings of anyone who needs hot cook-up, but does not have the time to make it.

By Rae Wiltshire Henry Muttoo’s first introduction to a theatre stage occurred by accident.

A first-time tourism offering for the villages of Santa Rosa and Cabora in Region One, which was funded through the Solidarity Fund for Innovative Projects (SFIP), was on Monday commissioned by the French Government and the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA).

Introduction As promised last week, today’s column and the next two are devoted to an overdue  discussion of the notion of “working interest” as this is freely applied when referring to the grouping or consortium of the three oil companies leading the exploration and production of Guyana’s hydrocarbons in the prolific Stabroek Block.

The great unabridged Oxford English Dictionary contains half a million words.