by Cofona Admin | Jan 31, 2013 | General, News
U.S.-based Guyanese designer Shanice Jones recently launched her Spring/Summer 2013 collection, dubbed Colour Explosion, inspired by the beautiful colours of the Caribbean. The fabric choices for this collection were satin, polyester and spandex, giving the designs an...
by Cofona Admin | Jan 29, 2013 | General, News
THE expansion of Banks DIH in New Amsterdam, Berbice, will include a branch of Citizens Bank, Berbice Manager, Mr. Reginald Matthews announced at the shareholders 18th Annual General Meeting last Sunday. He told the gathering that a section of the lending institution...
by Cofona Admin | Jan 25, 2013 | General, News
Abdhur Rahman Slade Hopkinson was a Guyanese poet and actor who was born in New Amsterdam, Berbice, British Guiana in 1934. His mother was a nurse and his father a lawyer. He lived a middle-class life in New Amsterdam until his father died and his mother later moved...
by Cofona Admin | Jan 15, 2013 | General, News
CULTURE, Youth & Sports Minister Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday awarded two recipients for their remarkable designs for coins commemorating the anniversaries of the Berbice Slave Rebellion (1763) and the Arrival of Indentured Immigrants to British Guiana (1838).At a...
by Cofona Admin | Jan 15, 2013 | General, News
The sum of one million dollars was distributed to the six winning choirs and small singing groups after some serious deliberations by the judges at the National Song Festival held at the National Cultural Centre on Sunday evening. The New Amsterdam Secondary School...
by Cofona Admin | Dec 23, 2012 | General, News
This year is the 250th anniversary of the often forgotten 1762 slave rebellion in Berbice, then a Dutch colony. Thirty-six male and female slaves rose up against inhuman treatment and after bravely repelling a militia force was ultimately defeated by Governor Van...
