Beyond Honey: A Drive to Modernise Guyana’s Apiculture Industry
FOR Kroon Simon, beekeeping is far more than a hobby. Despite being a trained heavy-duty machine operator and maintaining full-time employment, apiculture has become an integral source of income and an enterprise in which he continues to invest his time, resources and vision. Known in the digital space as “The Swag Beekeeper”, Simon has 28 […]
Turning Trash into Treasures and Giving Discarded Things a Second Life
By Andrea Hendricks IN Melania Desa’s hands, a peeling purse can become a painted keepsake, an old sweater can acquire a striking new identity, and cardboard and paper can find fresh purpose. From her home in Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, Desa has built her creative work around a simple conviction: what is considered useless can […]
An inspiring journey of one healthcare professional
GERARD Khan, 33, is the owner of Medicine Hub Pharmacy. He is a simple person who worked against the odds to fulfil his dream of being self-employed. As a boy from Bartica, he always knew he was destined to fulfil his true potential. He was born and raised in Bartica, where he last attended Three […]
Cara Lodge Symposium to Explore Opportunities for Wellness Tourism
Guyana-born Canadian healthcare professional to spearhead international team By Frederick Halley SEVERAL internationally renowned healthcare and wellness professionals, along with Guyanese and CARICOM VIPs, will converge at Cara Lodge in Guyana on 12 November to explore opportunities to develop Guyana as a destination for wellness tourism, integrative medicine, and health-related travel. The symposium is the […]
Sonia Noel Embraces AI and KSM™ as Fashion Brand Prepares for New Era of Digital Discovery
AS internationally acclaimed Guyanese fashion designer, author and entrepreneur, Sonia Noel celebrates 30 years in the creative industry, she is looking beyond the milestone and deliberately positioning her brand for the future, embracing artificial intelligence both as a creative tool in fashion and as an increasingly important part of how businesses are discovered online. The […]
Thoughts That Stay
EVERY morning begins with a conversation, one that happens long before the first cup of coffee, the first traffic light, the first message on the phone or the first smiling face. The conversation begins in the space between waking and rising. The mind greets the day with a thought, and that thought sets a direction. […]
Make Learning Your Best Friend
Plan Your Future Learning MANY people want to increase their learning but hope that it will happen spontaneously. Those who want to be successful must plan for their success. Many people might not have completed their schooling and may be disappointed. When people have academic credentials, they have the opportunity to make an impact. Those […]
The Horror: A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas
THE twin horrors of murder and greed define A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Bartolomé de las Casas’s 1542 polemic on the unrelenting atrocities committed by the Spanish and, to a lesser degree, the Germans against the Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and Latin America. De las Casas, a Dominican friar, witnessed […]
Would you share it?
SOMETIMES, we may believe that every resource we receive or seize is limited by its finitude. Its value is greatly affected by how much of it we can own. For example, wealth is valuable because there always seems to be less of it available than we need. On the other hand, love is only valuable […]
Arawak Girl
From branches to roots ANN Marie, a young native girl of the Arawak tribe, sat on the bank of the creek, looking across the smooth, tranquil waters, in awe, as she always was, at the magical splendour of the sunset in its burning red and tangerine glow. The natural beauty and serenity of this place […]
