Category: Features

By Lakhram Bhagirat For artist, Raimund Angelo Rausch, every time he dips his brush it is as if he is dipping it deep within his soul, painting his own nature into his paintings while exposing his vulnerability for the entire world to see. Raimund is a self-taught Guyanese artist who have always been intrigued by the arts from a very young age and it was something he was born to do. The 29-year- old spent his early years in Kingston, Georgetown and later moved to Campbellvile. Raimund spent his adolescent…

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After weeks of tantalising previews of what is in store for the local entertainment and tourism industry come next year, the anticipation came to an end on Saturday evening as Guyana Carnival was officially launched. Mirroring the festivities of traditional Carnival in the Caribbean, the parking lot of the Guyana Marriott Hotel was abuzz with a grand explosion of rhythms and colours, as models took to the stage, one after the other, to showcase an exquisite line-up of costumes that will be on display in the streets come May 2018,…

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By Dr. Odeen Ishmael The 1856 one-cent “Black on Magenta” of British Guiana is regarded as the rarest stamp in the world, and the most expensive. It is a rectangular stamp of black ink printed on magenta paper with the corners snipped off. With the corners clipped off, the stamp actually has an octagonal shape. In the nineteenth century, the stamps of British Guiana were printed by a British printer, Waterlow & Sons. In early 1856, the stock of stamps was sold out before the fresh shipment from England arrived.…

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Reviewed by Rudy R. Jadoopat By Petamber Persaud One hundred pages, 15 short stories with vivid description of encounters among people of varying backgrounds are enough to awaken numerous questions and rife speculation about the objectives of this book. “Stories Set in Two Countries” fascinates the reader by bringing multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-national fragrance into the fathomless pit of provocative relationships. The Guyanese author’s personal experiences in Guyana, Canada and Fiji have obviously left indelible impressions which influence these stories. There is an abundance of evidence of this subjective aspect. In…

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– Serving the less fortunate for over 26 years By Lakhram Bhagirat Children are said to be the reason for all the happiness in the world and when one gives the gift of time to a child, then you are forever happy. This may have been the intention of the late Marie Dookun when she began inviting the children of her community into her yard to feed them and read stories with them. While we may never know her true intentions, it did give birth to a life changing idea-…

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…young artist awaits grand debut By Ashraf Dabie Even as society continues to view the creation of art as a leisure time activity rather than a possible career, aspiring artist Roberto Anthony Teekah is defying the odds as he awaits his grand debut to his professional journey. Teekah, who is 19 years old, has been for some years now exercising the depths of his talent, by crafting artist pieces, using social media as one of his main platforms to showcase his work. It all started during his academic pursuits at…

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#IAmScience because education and my pursuit of learning became my ticket out of poverty and a way that I can really help others.” “Mother knows best” rings true for Gerialisa Caesar. In her family, the career options were either to be a lawyer, engineer or doctor. But with little interest in law and a greater love for science than math, Caesar decided to pursue her doctorate. “I graduated high school at 16 fully equipped to enter the work force,” Caesar said. “I went back to school to study science because…

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– A showcase of Women, Art, Guyanese culture In continuing a tradition of honouring women through the showcasing of their art and talent, the Guyana Women Artists’ Association (GWAA) once again opened the doors to its annual Art Exhibition. On display at the National Art Gallery housed at Castellani House, Homestretch Avenue, is a diverse line-up of imaginative pieces, which seeks to amalgamate various forms of visual art so as to create an intrinsic explosion of colours, symbolism and beauty, all wrapped up in one grand collection. This exhibition aligns…

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A Book Review by Petamber Persaud The power of the written words in this new Guyanese novel, “Kamarang”, will bewitch and haunt, thrill and satisfy, educate and entertain, the reader from the eerie beginning to the bewildering end, gnawing at the reader’s entrails, sucking at the reader’s grey matter long after the end is revealed and the mystery solved because the end will beset the reader with a new goal – a longing to learn more about the inexhaustible heritage of the land known throughout the world from the 16th…

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By Dr. Odeen Ishmael Shortly after Raleigh left the Guyana region, soldiers from the Spanish settlement of Cumaná, west of the Orinoco, were sent to apprehend the two Englishmen Raleigh had left behind. They managed to hold only one of them named Francis Sparry; the other had been killed and eaten by a jaguar. The young Englishman, and the Amerindians with whom he resided, informed the Spanish soldiers that Raleigh was expected back in March 1596. In 1596, Raleigh sent his lieutenant, Lawrence Keymis, back to Guyana in the area…

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