Stabroek Weekend

Director of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Irshad Mohamad was appointed recently to serve as vice-president after that post became vacant when Anand Raghunauth, who was vice president, assumed the presidency.

Tragedy Two women drown at Feather Beach: Two Region Two families are mourning the deaths of two mothers who drowned last at Feather Beach in Region Two.

Twenty-three years ago two sailors came together and started a business which essentially focused on transmitting the training they received overseas to better prepare those entering the maritime industry.

By Rae Wiltshire Amanda Persaud’s classroom is bright and colourful. It makes her feel good and her students appreciate the creativity.

Hazel Simmons-McDonald is a Saint Lucian who has lived and worked in Barbados for over thirty years.

By Yolanda T Marshall It takes a big heart to help shape little minds.

Despite motivating numerous individuals to join the gym and start their fitness journey, it has been almost a herculean task to convince some of my close friends to do the same.

Introduction As I advanced last week, clearly my proposal for the authorities to establish a national oil company, NOC, based on NRGI precepts, does not ipso facto constitute a recommendation favouring the creation of a state-owned and or joint venture, JV, oil refinery. 

I once read a long article about two remarkable books: “The Poetical Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins,” published by the Clarendon Press in Oxford, and “The Early Poetic Manuscripts and Note-Books of Gerard Manley Hopkins in Facsimile,” published by Garland in New York.

There is no dispute that much poverty still exists in Guyana.

Three of the films in the US Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival find writers directing their own scripts engaging with socially urgent issues that feel destined to be conversation starters.

Baby who ah cry ah house and ah door ah same thing.

China’s Four Great Folktales 1. Butterfly Lovers During a time when women were still discouraged from taking up scholarly pursuits, Zhu Yingtai, urges her father to permit her to disguise as a man so that she can attend classes.

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament, which ends today in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, drew five participants in the world’s top ten, according to the International Chess Federation (FIDE) rating system.

“Well is not something that I did want but it happen and wah I can do?

Sometimes, growth becomes a period of complete introspection and self-analysis. In this period, when your priorities often lie in the process of simply figuring out how to place yourself in the world, it is easy to forget the realities that exist in the way that life occurs.

In the days and weeks since our last conversation about his art, Dudley Charles and I continued our periodic chats.

Please consider this week’s column a Public Service Announcement and an Appeal.

  Economy Budget set at $781.9b: Boasting that it is a budget for all Guyanese and one for “now and the future”, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh last Monday presented a whopping $781.9 billion budget – some 41.4% more than the $552.9 billion budget last year.

As 63-year-old Farida Khan sat in the room to receive her Certificate of Title (CoT) for her house lot she cried tears of joy, knowing that it was finally happening six generations later, starting with her great grandparents who came from India as indentured labourers.