The Scene

With the recent opening of another Jamaican restaurant in the city, Jamaican cuisine seems set to take its place alongside those currently available, ie, Indian, Creole, Chinese and Brazilian.

With the Christmas season fast approaching, those looking to celebrate to a different beat need not look far for the music, as a new CD especially for the season by gospel singer Anil Azeez has just been released.

Hips are expected to sway wildly as the familiar and pulsating sounds of ‘Firewater’ and ‘Mor-tor’ along with other hits blast out later this evening when Neeshan Parboo better known as ‘De Hitman’ and Rikki Jai perform in what is promised to be “chutney music at its best”.

Who says Guyana is a poor country? Okay, we can hear the resounding `me’ being belted out by many because after all it is no secret that our country is poor compared to many.

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Let’s be honest, many of us get anxious when we hear that one or more of our guests are vegetarian.

After weeks of heady talk and bold assertions that the biggest music festival ever is about to hit Guyana, the moment is finally here.

The catfights, gossip, hot fashions, parties, runway shows and occasional back-stabbing that all make for must-see model search TV shows in the US will debut here as the committee which organised the electrifying Guyana Fashion Weekend (GFW) rolls out Model Search 2008.

A young Guyanese feels he’ll take the gospel world by storm when he launches his first ever album next November in Barbados.

Taking home the gold and outdistancing the other runners to win the 100M sprint at the Olympics was once the dream of recently crowned Miss Guyana Talented Teen Trisana Cox but now the former national athlete is concentrating on becoming a paediatrician.

Hi Everyone, You remember several weeks ago when I told you that I’m nuts for coconuts?

We are not sure what it is, maybe it is the climb of the cost of living, but from all appearances Guyanese citizens seem to be in what is known as a ‘bad mood’ all the time.

Looking for the fur to fly and the claws to come out?

If Sonia Noel needed any reassurance her designs rocked the recent Guyana Fashion Weekend, she got it on Sunday last and from two of the Caribbean’s hottest and newest glamour-filled fashion weekends- in the US Virgin Islands and St.

There seems to be a resurgence of sorts of the negative campaign against skinny Guyanese women, and in case anyone is wondering, the crusade was initiated a long time ago.

Hi Everyone, there’s a school of thought that if something has been tried, tested and proven to be successful, one should not tamper with it.

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Fourteen ladies and men will be strutting their stuff and peeling their clothes off

Thirty-five years ago the first ever Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) was held in Guyana.

It is being promoted as the biggest reggae show ever to hit Guyana, a claim that could be disputed if it weren’t for the fact that the persons bragging are the ones who gave us the huge, hyped and unforgettable Beres Hammond/Maxi Priest concert two years ago.