The Scene

I remember back when the trench in my village wasn’t stagnant.

Hi Everyone, Tear or crush a fresh bay leaf with your hands and smell it and you’ll quickly understand why it is the most widely used culinary herb.

By Shabna Ullah A 10-year-old girl of Rosignol, West Bank Berbice walked away with the one of the crowns from a field of seven older contestants at the Miss Indian/African Beauty Pageant held at the Blairmont Community Centre Ground recently.

When Party TV debuts formally on television on Monday evening, it will be the first part of Kendesi Mohammed’s mission to transform Guyana into one of the entertainment hotspots in the Caribbean.

Ronald Hollingsworth’s tremendously popular play, Till I Find A Place has been adapted for the big screen and in another few days the film will be screened for the first time in Guyana.

Jamaican artiste Gyptian has won the ‘texting’ battle in the public relations frenzy to select the artiste who would headline Wildfire Promotions highly anticipated ‘Temperature’ concert.

A UK-trained teacher recently launched a book which captures the founding and the evolution of Plaisance/ Sparendaam village and its people.

– on Painting the Spectrum 6 Week four of the SASOD Film Festival, Painting the Spectrum 6, features films which reflect voices and stories of gay and lesbian people who have to face family, society and country.

Ramsey Nouah’s face is better known around the black and African world than the face of the president of Nigeria.

By Candace Phillips Michael Jackson was undisputedly the world’s greatest entertainer, Guyanese singer Courtney Noel emphatically said, as he spoke of a new single written and produced by him to honour the artistry of the late singer.

I’m a boxing fan! No let me rephrase that, I am a boxing fan at convenient times and in my world that amounts to about one fight a month.

Hi Everyone, Here in the Caribbean we have a rich food heritage centred on ‘ole time’ bakeries and bread vans.

When the Guyana Music Teachers Association (GMTA) holds its annual Musicians on Stage concert, it presents the crème de la crème of students to delight music lovers and last Sunday’s affair, with its several film themes plus the spice of the National School of Dance doing two Linda Griffith choreographies and the versatile Parkside Steel Orchestra showing its mettle was no exception.

In the third week of the SASOD film festival, Painting the Spectrum 6, at the Sidewalk Café, films will be screened which deal with a range of issues related to their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender subjects.

Local vintner Warren Douglas will host two wine tastings next week under the theme ‘Let’s Toast to Dad’, in the run-up to Father’s Day.

By Candace Phillips The road to the Miss Moruca crown has not come without its fair share of pain for Taryn Abrams.

A sinewy man with a bright blue scrap of spandex stuck between the cheeks of his rear end can be a mighty distracting sight when you’re trying to bench press your first 70 pounds.

Hi Everyone, If you’re anything like me, when it comes to eating certain foods, you negotiate and bargain with yourself.