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GUYANA CHRONICLE Friday February 27, 2015
IN this election season…
Beauty Ambassador Katherina Roshana addresses her beloved Guyana
Natural Black
to appear on GEM’s Cover
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NTERNATIONAL Reggae sensation Natural Black will cover the 66th edition of GEM, as the magazine heads into its eleventh year of production. In an exclusive interview with GEM, Natural Black disclosed his upbringing, career, and some of the big plans he has for the future. This issue of GEM also has a feature on the King’s annual Duck Curry Competition, a spread on designer Micheel Cole’s swimwear collection, the nonprofit group Global Shapers, Body art company BRAVO! Arts and much much more. About GEM: GEM is the No. 1 lifestyle and entertainment magazine targeting Guyanese at home
and in the Diaspora. For eleven years, it has transcended race, politics, religion and class to cover the movers and shakers, trendsetters, hottest personalities, and young professionals in our society. GEM educates, entertains and inspires its readers through its thought-provoking articles and world-class photography. The magazine’s print and online versions, as well as its active social media presence, continue to attract thousands of subscribers, readers and fans from around the globe. he next issue of GEM hits the newsstand shortly, and will be available at select gas stations, boutiques, bookstores, restaurants and supermarkets.
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Bulletin!!! Bulletin!
Mahendra Ramkellawan returns with “Clash of the Titans”
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UYANA is more than ready to welcome the return of Chutney sensation Mahendra Ramkellawan, as he stages his much-anticipated ‘Return of the Clash of the Titans at the National Stadium on March 14, 2015. Ramkellawan has informed that this year’s show will be bigger than anything ever staged on the local shores, and has vowed that the artistes’ lineup was orchestrated to do nothing but bring a chutney/soca firestorm to the venue. Billed to perform at the event are the
Fire Fest Production Dancers, Mahendra himself, the Karma Band’s Ravi and Neesha B out of Trinidad, JMC 3Veni, the DilE-Nadan Band, Omesh Singh, 2015 Carib Soca Monarch, Jomo Primo, and Little Avinash Maraj. Carded for entertainment also are Veekash Sahadeo, Omadath Maharaj, Nishard M and many others. Regular tickets are being sold for a whopping $1500, while VIP tickets are set at $3000. Showtime is 07:45 pm.
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uyanese receive love, peace and harmony from Katherina Roshana in New York, USA KATHERINA Roshana sends all Guyana her love, peace and harmony during this season of elections. All Guyana remembers our Miss Universe Guyana 2013; Miss India Guyana 2013; Miss India Worldwide’s Most Beautiful Skin Awardee; Guyana“s Media Award as Lady of Substance; and the Ambassador of PEACE of the Universal Federation. KATHERINA ROSHANA’s message to her beloved country is as follows: Dearest Friends, families and fellow Citizens of Great and beautiful Guyana: I note the tensions, fears, annoyance, hate, bitterness, and yes, even excitement as we draw closer to May 11, the time of National Elections in Guyana. Some are preaching gloom and doom; others want gloom and doom, it would appear. Yet others fear and withhold their investments due to fear of gloom and doom, which can cause economic pain and even loss. My people, fellow Guyanese, this Land of many Waters is our country, we must never try to sabotage it or bring it to shame. It is not a pageant where an individual alone could be hurt when some people try to bring her down, hurt and damage her; it is an entire nation, a whole country of people with children, and futures, with ambition. The day after elections, regardless of who wins, we all have to cook our foods, go to the market, and get to work; even shower, put on our clothes, make out beds, and exist as always, just as we did all our lives. People should have control of their emotions, (and) not get excited politically, even to the point of violence or intolerance. Violence can be even the use of harsh words. We are a great people, I often heard my Father say we are a nation of many peoples who have coexisted for many centuries. Why it is (that) at election (time) we tend to create annoyances amongst ourselves? This is a beautiful country with people from great civilizations brought under difficult but similar circumstances and ordeals, so we must be like one big family, sharing each other pains and successes. With the exception of the Amerindians, we all came in ships, so we must care this sacred land (of) Guyana, which we call home. We should never be intolerant to any group, as in this small, yet large and diverse nation, we have learned to live together, work with each other, serve and pray with each other. We cry and laugh together. Let us think of our similarities and not differences, and for a thing like elections,
(let us) never be uncaring for each other. We have breathed the air together, we ate food from the land, grown by various persons; we give blood without asking which party its owner voted for, or what race was he or she. Similarly, we all buy from each other and sell to each other; one never asks I wish that pound of eddoes, and that pound of plantains, but I need to know which party you voted for, or what race planted it, what race, grew it, what race transported it. I ask the political parties to be mature, not to use blaring and vulgar music or (operate in) cursing down mode, thinking that will
attract voters. Sorry, that chases them away. The people of this country are not interested in foreign entertainers and big parties, where alcohol will always enter. Remember, the bigger you are, the harder the fall. he people of this country want excellent articulation, refined speeches, wisdom at its peak, and love to overflow the land. I have heard (that) the people of this country are not interest in such things. They say they wish progress, peace, and goodwill. So give them that. They say they have too many parties and vulgarities already. This message is to all political entities and personalities involved in the election machinery, and seeking office of power; and (it is) also aimed at voters who tend to get emotional (over) issues such as party love, or race love. “Everyone has a basic inherent right to vote for the party of their choice. All political entities have the right to influence our vote, but none has the right to influence us to violence or depression, to annoyance or interference with our human emotions and personal dignity, or to cause national disturbance. In the end, the reality, the truth, is that Guyana is our dear and beloved country, place of our birth or our naturalization; most of us have nowhere else to go.
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So, as a people, we must care our land, our waters and our fellow citizens”