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Hi Everyone, It’s the season of Lent and, as usual, my inbox is full of requests for vegetarian and meat-free recipes.

Suriname has fallen in love with Sonia Noel all over again.

Jermaine Figueira, a well-known spoken-word poet from Linden and Travis Bowen a popular singer/professional dancer from Georgetown will headline this month’s Poetry and Jazz (P&J) night themed ‘Addicted’ at L&L Restaurant in Linden on March 20.

The final staging of Link Show 30 will be held at the National Cultural Centre tonight and tomorrow night from 8 pm.

(Billboard) – After their well-received live performances at the Academy Awards, Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” and Idina Menzel’s “Let It Go,” the latter of which won best original song honours, both shine on the Billboard Hot 100.

A big, burly man, Kijana Lewis is surprisingly light on his feet on stage.

In this little piece of paradise we call Guyana, we hardly depend on the tourism industry yet we have much to offer.

A childhood dream of being a writer has now become a reality for Julia Kanhai, who recently published her first novel Backslider.

“Who taking over, Chinese Big business in Guyana, Chinese Cellphones and your TV, Chinese Everything now in the country, Chinese The clothing you wear, Chinese Women check out your false hair, Chinese Ayo look at me, I am an Afro-Chinese”   It was third time lucky for 2014 Junior Calypso Monarch Shontell Gittens, who had previously entered the competition in 2012 and 2013.

Some people are arguing that there is no longer a Mashramani, not even in the traditional sense of the word.

  By Timothy Austin With the Winter Olympics over, our television viewing attention now turns to another race for gold, the 2014 Oscars.

Guyanese designer Michelle Cole has been named the Young Gifted and Black Entrepreneurial Awards Designer of the Year.

Beginning tomorrow and continuing every Sunday for the month of March, artist and designer Tracy Douglas will create a wombmyn’s (women’s) circle at Pan-dama Retreat, on the Soesdyke/Linden High-way.

After a four-night run at Parc Rayne, the Link Show producers have decided to move back to the National Cultural Centre citing the seating capacity of Parc Rayne.

Neaz Subhan has been in the performing arts for a whopping 30-plus years and he still plays a very active role today.

I would love to know why we really celebrate Mashramani. Ask a school child and he or she will say almost robotically, “Mashramani is a celebration after hard work.” 

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