Joanna Dhanraj

“I don’t consider myself a professional. I wish I was,” artist Akeem Hartman said.

Gerald Gravesande is all about spreading the gospel through music. A singer/songwriter, who goes by the stage name ‘Double G’, Gerald has been ministering professionally through music for seven years, but his love for the ministry and music has been part of him since he was a child.

Elderly people it seems are more susceptible to contracting the coronavirus as well as it being potentially more fatal for them owing to old age and its attendant underlying health issues.

Tiffany Persaud is a teacher and businesswoman, but first and foremost, she is a dancer who has been honing her skill since she was five years old.

Guyanese owned non-profit organisations Green Fashion, Art & Design Museum (Green FAD Museum) and International Museum of the Saree (IM of the Saree) have for the last year, through their pop-up and online events, been promoting Guyanese art and culture as well as other cultures around the world.

Leslie Domingo is one of more than a hundred persons to have recovered in the Moruca sub-district, Region One and while he could give a number of reasons for his recovery, he emphasizes using herbal medicine in his overcoming the coronavirus.

The family of the 24th  COVID fatality, Aaron Peters, say that they did not learn of the man’s positive COVID-19 test until after his death and they are convinced that he would have contracted the deadly virus following his admission to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

With COVID-19 taking its toll across the world at the start of the year, Jermaine Slater began to do his research on how businesses were affected and those that were still operating.

Melody Thomas is a singer/songwriter pursuing a career in the music industry in the United Kingdom, perfecting her talent in the Reggae and R&B genres.

Hundreds of Diamond and Grove, East Bank Demerara residents were last night affected by flooding when the door of a sluice situated at the Grove Market Street collapsed.

The West Bank Demerara district once widely known for its sugar production owing to the now defunct Wales Sugar Estate, is now predominantly under rice cultivation as many of the cane farmers have made the switch following the closure of the estate.  

With a president finally declared after five long months of waiting, Guyanese are now able to return to focussing on what’s most important in their lives and what are some of the issues they’d want this administration to give priority to. 

Up until last week, Carl Melville, 28, had been homeless for a year.

After recently renewing her forays into art, Canal Number Two resident Maryanna Persaud has been quickly gaining an audience for her work.

Photographer Richard Doodnauth is making great strides in the local industry despite having only started out in the profession just over a year ago.

Guyanese have been raving about Jackie ‘Jaxx’ Hanover’s beautiful rendition of “Guyana” since she performed it at the inauguration of the 9th executive president Mohamed Irfaan Ali last Saturday at the National Cultural Centre (NCC).

Four persons are now dead and several others are hospitalised after a speeding motorcar collided head-on with a canter truck along the Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara Public Road yesterday afternoon.

Twenty-three-year-old Clement Samuel Glasgow is a talented Gospel singer-songwriter who dropped his fifth single, “I Will Follow” yesterday.

Businesses in Parika are reeling from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic having had to close for more than three months.

Fifteen-year-old Nivedita Motiram, a Canadian of Guyanese parentage, has been announced as the winner of the 14th season of a Toronto-based singing contest.