Category: Features

Guyanese designer Rishma Persaud has finally fulfilled her dreams of showcasing her one-of-a-kind pieces. Her newly opened boutique, R.P Couture, is a showroom filled with the designer’s chic couture collections. The style icon has been designing for the last 12 years, a childhood passion she could never give up. She has launched more than ten collections so far, and participated in the 2009 Guyana Fashion Weekend. She also presented her ‘Caribbean Trend’ collection at Carifesta in 2008; a collection that featured eye catching, body hugging evening gowns with elaborate prints…

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By Danielle Campbell-Lowe It is the kind of thing you would expect to see only in a horror movie. A woman, kneeling besides an open grave; clawing at the mud with her bare hands; trying to conceal the limp body she had placed there minutes before. A shovel in a bucket of muddy water lay close to her feet, and under her house: a towel, tarpaulin and sheet, strewn on a clothes line. Such was the scene police witnessed firsthand at the Second and Cummings streets, Alberttown home of famed…

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By Venessa Deosaran Endowed with the skill for designing authentic and original pieces of jewellery, local designer Nadia Jabour is expanding her business regionally and internationally, proving that Guyanese are indeed talented people. Nadia, in an interview with Guyana Times Sunday Magazine, revealed that she started designing jewellery in Toronto, Canada about 5 years ago. “I have always been creative, but after moving back to Canada was never able to find a niche area of the arts to develop, but with having teenage girls always wanting to have something different,…

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By Petamber Persaud E.R. Braithwaite receiving the CCH, Guyana’s third highest national award, from President Ramotar on Aug 23, 2012 Extract of an interview with Guyanese centenarian E. R. Braithwaite, who visited Guyana in August 2012. Braithwaite is the author of several books, including the world renowned “To Sir with Love” (1959), which was made into a movie of the same name; “Paid Servant” (1962), “A Kind of Homecoming” (1962), and “Honorary White” (1975). During his visit, Braithwaite was bestowed with the Cacique Crown of Honour, and a Guyanese stage…

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Founder of the Inca Rally, Juan Herrada The Inca Rally is a throwback to old exploration days, a rejection of overly safe tours and a search for genuine local experiences. It’s a unique challenge and opportunity to have a positive impact on others. It’s a real adventure with a purpose. The Inca Rally adventurers get a kick out of hurdling themselves headfirst into the unknown armed with just their ability to be resourceful enough to get out of any sticky situation. Shaking the safe monotony of daily life and plunging…

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Some of the Lions Club of Demerara Lioness members committed to changing lives and Guyana for the better The Lions Club of Demerara Lioness launched its Environmental Poster Competition 2012 under the theme:  “A Cleaner Guyana makes a Greener Guyana” on October 29, 2012 at the National Centre for Education Research Development (NCERD) auditorium in Kingston. For this fiscal year 2012- 2013, the health, environment and education committees of the club are seeking to support the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment’s “Pick it up Guyana” campaign. The competition…

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Breaking records in the medical field internationally It is reported that only six percent of all surgeons in the United Kingdom are female, and Guyanese Dr. Samantha Tross is one of them. Dr. Tross is the first female of Afro-Caribbean ancestry to become a consultant Orthopaedic surgeon in the UK. Tross is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Ealing hospital NHS Trust. She is one of small but growing number of female Orthopaedic Consultant Surgeons, the only one practicing in the area. She was born in Georgetown on June 30, 1968…

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By Petamber Persaud E.R. Braithwaite Extract of an interview with Guyanese centenarian E. R. Braithwaite, who visited Guyana in August 2012. Braithwaite is the author of several books, including the world renowned “To Sir with Love” (1959), which was made into a movie of the same name; “Paid Servant” (1962), “A Kind of Homecoming” (1962), and “Honorary White” (1975). During his visit, Braithwaite was bestowed with the Cacique Crown of Honour, and a Guyanese stage version of “To Sir with Love”, produced by the National Library, was performed in his…

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Nuns talk about what it’s like to be living a life of celibacy By Danielle Campbell From left: Sisters Judith, Admirabilis and Mary Kenneth There are not very many people who can go a week without money or sex. In fact, few persons would dedicate their lives solely to be of service to others and volunteer to grow old with a group of women. Just imagine being an only child and being pressured into bringing forth offspring or being required to pool all your earnings and spending only on advice…

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