2011 saw some highs on the local entertainment scene as well as some real lows. The GT&T Jingle and Song Competition immediately comes to mind when we think of the highpoints. While one of the real lows was the fiasco involving Guyana’s entrant to the Miss World 2011 competition, who never made it to London because of poor arrangements by the organisers of the local competition.

The GT&T competition, which for the first time this year had a Bollywood segment that is still to be concluded, drew out some of Guyana’s best voices, several of which were previously not well known publicly. While the win deservedly went to Brandon Harding, Guyana will not forget the thrilling voices of schoolgirl Calais Peterkin, or Poonam Singh, Esther Osborne, Nikeshia Alexander, Jenelle Pierre – all hitherto basically unknown. We get the feeling life will never be the same again for them.

The competition also introduced Guyana to several others who were so bad, they must have been tone deaf to…..