Year: 2012

By Venessa Deosaran In November 2010, former President Jagdeo created a small grant to stimulate a film making industry in Guyana. He appointed Dr Paloma Mohamed, director of the Centre for Communication Studies at the University of Guyana, to manage the project, which was named ‘The President’s Film Endowment Project 2011’. Between January and July 2011, the experimental project has grown exponentially in its reach and potential through the collaboration of several other formal and informal partners – HED, USAID, Ohio University, the University of Guyana, The Theatre Guild of…

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Resolute in being the best By Venessa Deosaran Artist, designer, teacher and photographer, Lori Ann Jacobs has proven to be a determined and versatile woman in fulfilling her goals and pursuing what she is most passionate about: art. Jacobs graduated from the Cyril Potter College of Education in 2001 after studying for three years to become a trained teacher. That same year she began teaching at Annandale Secondary School. In 2008, after studying for an additional four years, Jacobs graduated from the University of Guyana with a bachelors degree in…

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By Venessa Deosaran US-based Guyanese writer and director, Mason Richards’ deftness, combined with his talent as a storyteller, has contributed to his push to someday becoming a world renowned filmmaker, and at the same time promote his beautiful country of birth. In an interview with Guyana Times Sunday Magazine, Richards said he was born and grew up in Georgetown. His fondest memories are playing cricket as a child at Redeemer Primary School, going to the seawall on Sundays with his family, going to the Starlight Drive-In cinema on the East…

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The Royal Geographical Society of London entrusted Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk with conducting an expedition of exploration of British Guiana in 1835; his work, it is claimed, led to the successful Venezuela and Brazil boundary arbitrations for Guyana, then British Guiana. Schomburgk was born June 5, 1804 in the town of Freyburg on the River Unstrut, in Germany. The eldest of five siblings, he showed an early interest in nature, and in the 1820s, while living with his uncle, he learned botany from a professor. Later, after several years of…

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