Joanna Dhanraj

A recent post circulating on Facebook gained much recognition for landscape painter Micheal Chatargum.

L’Oratoire is a beautiful village in Canal Number One, on the Polder’s road.

Melicia Partab-Alli has been the name behind makeup and a number of gorgeous fashion pieces in pageantry for several years and this week, she afforded The Scene a look into her journey to the fashion world. 

Good Hope is a community in Mahaica flanked by Hand-en-Veldt and Helena Number Two; it has approximately 500 residents.

“My life began when I picked up the guitar because that’s when I found my identity,” singer and guitarist Christian Sobers says and it has been a decade since he took up music professionally at the age of 16.

Esther Hamer has given 33 years of her life to dance having taken up the art at 4 years old.

L’Esperance is a farming community situated between Noitgadacht and Sans Souci along the Number One Canal Polder road.

Tiffani Bonner has music in her heart and on her brain.

The village of Kartabo is situated in the lower Mazaruni, six miles from Bartica.

For Steven Ramphal, six times proved to be a charm. His outstanding performance coupled with the words of his song “Rang Ke Bhare Main Bhool Jao” (“Forget About Your Colour and Let’s Live in Love”) won him the 2019 Chutney Monarch crown at the final of the competition sponsored by Banks DIH Ltd at the Anna Regina Community Centre Ground last Sunday.

La Heureuse Aventure is really small. The village has the least number of residents in Canal Number One with no more than ten houses in total, of which a couple are vacant.

Artist, lecturer, poet and athlete, Randy Abubakar Bentinck’s work surrounds realistic and abstract with him dabbling in a bit of surreal art.

New Scheme, Patentia is not so new anymore; it has been in existence for more than 50 years and is home to hundreds.

For a long time, while growing up in his hometown Bartica, Mikel Andrews was fascinated with the art of dance but settled for watching it on his television, as he did not have the courage to get involved.

Sitting snugly between Annandale and Hoff van Aurich on the Essequibo Coast, is the beautiful village of Zorg en Vlygt with the Atlantic to the east and rice fields just opposite.

Second year University of Guyana student Shanyce McAlmont, who is reading for a degree in Public Management, is following her dreams by modelling on the side of work and school, something she has been fascinated with ever since she first strutted about as a child in her mother’s heels.

Aberdeen is a small community on the Essequibo Coast bordered by Columbia and Three Friends villages, the Atlantic Ocean and rice fields.

Former journalist Abigail Wade has left the news behind having found her niche in the fashion industry as a makeup artist (MUA) and stylist in the USA.