Year: 2015

WICB hosts charity match for Dominica

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…Yohan Blake, Brian Lara among celebrities to take part KINGSTON, Jamaica – The West Indies Cricket Board says it will donate all proceeds of a Twenty20 charity match to be played on Saturday, September 26, in Barbados to the Dominica Emergency Relief Fund. Admission is US$10 for adults and US$5 for children under the age of 12, with all money going directly to the Dominica Government to assist with recovery efforts in the island which suffered severe damage to property and loss of life from the passage of Tropical Storm…

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Elite League breathes life back into Slingerz FC

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With no competitive senior football being played since the 25th Kashif and Shanghai tournament in April, and a hefty monthly bill to ensure its existence, the West Demerara-based Slingerz Football Club was on the verge of being scrapped, according to General Manager, Colin Aaron. “We were deciding, based on how the football was going at this time- nothing was happening- that we have achieved everything and there is nothing more to go after. Running on a budget of over Gy$5 million a month for gaining nothing, he [owner Javed Ali]…

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Sucked orange

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Satiricus always knew that Guyanese had a way with words. They were so imaginative. In the 1960’s, just like that, they came up with “choke and rob” to describe what Americans mundanely called “muggings”. A “mugging” can be all sorts of things – even connected to the guzzling of Satiricus’ favourite beer. “But “choke-and rob”? No room for ambiguity there,” grinned Satiricus. “Just like with kick-down-the-door-bandits in the 80’s” and “slippery ochro” now.” Satiricus was mulling over the reaction of the Bourda vendors to Hammer Green’s tough-love edict to break…

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Heritage reflections

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Stanwyck Cromwell creates art work “from a cultural point of view” Stanwyck E. Cromwell was born 1948 in Georgetown with the artistic talents of both parents. This talent, he says, was nurtured by another noted Guyanese artist, who is also his cousin, Maurice C. Jacobs, who helped him develop that talent. Cromwell attended the former British Guiana Educational Trust High School, and graduated with high honours in art and foreign language. He worked for several years as a graphic artist at the Guyana Lithographic Company, working alongside well-known Guyanese artist…

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The glitz of Rave Designs

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Designer Deborah Mathias’ artistic journey began when she took over her father’s advertising agency where she honed her graphic art skills as well as her marketing and customer relations talents. Rave Designs was later created mainly as a costume company which, to date has produced several prize winning bands at the annual Mashramani Parade. Mathias, of Rave Designs, last year presented a collection of hand-made jewellery as part of Sonia Noel’s Style Mission at the Pegasus Hotel. The collection, named “Aspire”, was created entirely from local semi-precious stones (quartz and…

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Tribute to Father John Peter Bennett with “Moving Circle” exhibit

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The Education and Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs Ministries have collaborated to pay homage to late Father John Peter Bennett, who produced the Arawak-English dictionary, at the National Art Gallery, Castellani House, as the celebration of Amerindian Heritage Month. The tribute took the form of an exhibition of artwork by indigenous artists called the “Moving Circle”. In his remarks at the launch on Thursday, Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs Minister Sydney Allicock said that Guyana’s indigenous people have made major contributions to the country’s development. He added that the talents that the country’s youngsters…

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Your Guyana adventure

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If you want to experience relaxed living and authentic wildlife along with adventure in an ever increasing stressful and artificial world, then Guyana is as natural as you can get. From its many old heritage buildings on the coast to its sprawling jungles and savannahs in its interior, nothing is left out from your adventure. You cannot come to Guyana without experiencing the remote and truly natural Kaieteur Falls, considered the world’s largest single drop falls by volume and height, or leave without visiting St George’s Cathedral, a historic icon…

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Elsa V. Goveia: A premier Caribbean historian

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Elsa Goveia’s 1956 publication, “A Study on the Historiography of the British West Indies to the End of the Nineteenth Century” is considered the “first substantial work” to study the writing of Caribbean history. She is celebrated as a pioneering Caribbean history research and teaching individual, and acclaimed for her “sensitivity to the racism of the time”: writing to provide a balanced appraisal of historical studies once usually conducted by whites only. Elsa Vesta Goveia was born April 12, 1925 in the former British Guiana, one of two daughters. Mixed…

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Jaundiced views…

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…on “national unity” It’s been 4 months since the election. In that time one of the most partisan agendas in the history of this country was launched – but suddenly “national unity” is in the air! What’s this? The “stick and the carrot” approach? For sure there’s been a whole lotta “sticks” – in and out of Parliament. In Parliament the law’s been amended to have the Government retake leadership of the Committees they’d awarded to themselves when THEY were the Opposition. The PPPC Opposition is now expected to become…

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The artistry of a dhalebanna thatched roof

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By Lennox J Hernandez It is generally accepted that the mainland of South America has been occupied by humans since 30,000 BCE, and that northern South America, including Guyana, has been occupied by indigenous peoples for more than 6,000 years. In what is called pre-Columbian times (before the arrival of Christopher Columbus and the Europeans), the Arawak people, for example, inhabited the river basins of the Orinoco River and the northern Amazon, living in “thatched huts, made of bent branches, covered in leafy boughs.” Over thousands of years, indigenous buildings…

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