The Scene

SSignal Productions is commemorating the 250th anniversary of the 1763 Berbice Slave Rebellion and the 175th year of Emancipation, with a Jazz and Soul Concert billed for the Umana Yana on August 5.

  Producer/director Collette Jones-Chin has just concluded the Young @ Art Summer Programme which she organises and manages annually.

Hits and Jams Entertainment (HJE) has announced two more events for this year’s Jamzone Summer Break.

(Billboard) – Bob Marley breaks into the top 10 on Billboard’s Social 50 chart for the first time this week.

(Billboard) – For the first stop of Jay Z and Justin Timberlake’s co-headlining ‘Legends of the Summer’ stadium tour in North American, the pair’s packed-to-the-hilt concert at Toronto’s Rogers Centre before 45,000 people had this remarkable ease about it.

Twenty-three-year-old Alicia Bess, who on July 2, outshone two other beauties to become Miss Jamzone Guyana 2013, says that despite her success there is much she needs to do to prepare for the pageant’s upcoming international leg.

Welcome ‘Summer’ vacationers: members of the Diaspora and the average Guyanese who wants to explore the lost wonder of the world known as Guyana.

Hi Everyone, After all the talk about buttery shortbread cookies last week, I am keeping my promise to share with you the late Urmia Cummings’ butter cookies which she called Teatime Cookies.

Witness

There is no doubt about it. This year’s Miss Jamzone International is shaping up to be a formidable pageant given the line-up of entrants.

The St Lucia-based ASX Modeles Agency has launched a chapter in Guyana and Debra Allen, Fashion Designer and owner of the brand, promises to raise the standards of modelling in Guyana to the place where our models can excel internationally.

Guyana Fashion Week (GFW) is set to be launched on August 4 at Herdmanston Lodge in Queenstown and those desirous of participating still have a chance to do so as the final audition will be held next Sunday, July 28 at Water Chris from 2 pm to 5 pm.

International superstar Sean Paul has released a new single “Entertainment” featuring 2Chainz and Juicy J, a club smash available now on iTunes.

Pastry Chef Kester Robinson says he was born to be a chef.

From the inception of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) in 1973, economic integration and a viable trading bloc were the incentives behind the regional integration.

Hi Everyone, I always say, if you’re going to have a cookie, then have a cookie.

Cartoon

Ryan Hoppie and Bibi Halima Khan are each $1 million richer and the proud owners of two new Toyota Raum cars after they emerged the winners of the GT&T Guyana Star Jingle and Song Competition English and Bollywood segments respectively.