Lisa Hamilton emerged as the overall winner of the inaugural Guyana Cup Pizza-Making Competition on Wednesday evening after capturing the Guyanese Gourmet Pizza category and earning the highest score among the competition’s ten participants.
She was just 11 years old when her father, Detective Sergeant Harry Kooseram, was brutally snatched from her by a lone gunman who shot him to death as he rode to work from his Bladen Hall, East Coast Demerara home to the Vigilance Police Station.
Twenty-nine years after being diagnosed with breast cancer, 59-year-old Shelly Khan can still remember the day as if it were yesterday and how she cried all the way from Georgetown to Grove on the East Bank of Demerara, convinced that her life was over.
Written only days after the conclusion of the negotiations for the nationalisation of Bookers in 1976, Mohamed Shahabuddeen’s manuscript offers a rare insider’s account of one of the most significant episodes in Guyana’s economic history.
It has been said that during the brief French occupation of what is now Guyana they heard the bird speaking French, “Qu’est ce qu’il dit ?
Every Thursday morning, there is a hustle and bustle, greetings and laughter as vendors and customers meet on the pavement of Victoria Village’s Middle Walk Road at what is now known as the Victoria Market.
As Raphael Waldron reflects on the tragic death of his daughter, 21-year-old Loydicia Waldron, his memories of her becoming a masquerade dancer at the tender age of four remain etched in his mind.
