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Journalist, food writer and food stylist Cynthia Nelson’s Tastes Like Home: My Caribbean Cookbook last year copped the prize of Best First Cookbook at the Jamaican national level of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.

“(Reuters) – Canadian pop star Justin Bieber has teamed with country sensation Taylor Swift on a new song for his upcoming third album, though details were scant as the “Boyfriend” singer keeps fans guessing.

By Jairo Rodrigues No strange face in theatre, Nirmala Narine has also expanded her repertoire to film, scoring a role in the recently released local effort, A Jasmine for a Gardener, which she said she was very excited about.

This week the Caribbean Round of the GT&T Feel the Beat Dance Competition was featured.

Feel the beat

Guyana Model Search and Designer Portfolio return this year with a series of televised events leading up to the finale on July 1.

A slate of regional and local gospel artistes is set to perform on Easter Monday when the annual Real Easter Jam is held at the Malteenoes Sports Club Ground.

You don’t have to be a British royal or look like Kate Middleton.

(EUR) Since her mother’s untimely death, Bobbi Kristina has been the focus for many.

(Billboard) – Thanks no doubt to her unrelentingly active online audience, Rihanna once again tops Billboard’s Social 50 chart.

By Jairo Rodrigues By now everyone knows the legendary Joel Ghansham.

Guyana’s first ever reality dance competition, hosted by telecommunications giant GT&T has started, coming just after the hype of the Jingle and Song Competition.

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Roughly a month ago Alana Seebarran went to Suriname representing Guyana in the Ms India Worldwide Pageant; she returned with the crown as well as the award for Best Talent, while the country earned Best National Director.

The Vagina Monolo-gues is once again being staged in Guyana and its on next weekend—March 30, 31 and April 1 at De Impeccable Banquet Hall on Brickdam.

Drawing on her food memories of 30 years ago and some new ones as well, Deborah Barocas self-published a cookbook, Guyana’s Tasty Exotic Foods of Six Peoples, almost two years ago and she’s currently working on the second edition, which will be published by a publishing house in New York, USA where she’s based and is due for release in September.

Top Cat Theatre Productions, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Culture, for the third year running is aiding students taking English B at 2012 Caribbean Secondary School’s Examination (CSEC) on May 11, by staging the drama Old Story Time by the late Trevor Rhone around Guyana.

Fifteen wrestlers are set to invade the National Park next weekend when local telecommunications giant GT&T presents the first ever `Wrestlerama Guyana’.

The Indian Cultural Centre will screen the 2001 epic drama Asoka today from 5.30 pm at its Lot 67 New Haven, Bel Air, Georgetown premises and members of the public are invited.

Well-known Guyanese designer Sonia Noel continued the year-long celebration of her 15th year in fashion with the launch yesterday of her new line ‘Fusion’ on the ‘Guyana Today’ TV show on NCN.