In keeping with her tradition of giving back, Sonia Noel is hosting her annual charity show this year in aid of Archer’s Home.
Sonia Noel believes that senior citizens are not treated with the respect they deserve and hence the show. She recalled her own grandmother who resides in Bartica saying that senior citizens have contributed much to the country and are often overlooked.
Style Mission 2009 is billed for the Le Meridien Pegasus on Thursday December 10 at 8 pm. It is by invitation only, but the public will have a chance to access passes through the internet and radio programs by answering questions related to Sonia’s work and GFW.
Archer’s Home was selected this year because of the solid work that the staff has been doing over the years. Sonia said she was impressed during a recent visit and that she had fun interacting with the older resident there.
“I was so amazed at the incredible spirit within that place, the people are really something”, Sonia said after the visit.
Style Mission will feature collections from Sonia and other hot designers including Climax, Shawn and Shurland James, Marcia DeSantos, Loriann Jacobs, Shedell Burchsmith and Candacie Martindale.
Sonia expressed gratitude to Pegasus for offering the hotel free of cost. Other sponsors include Smalta,Sihouette, Traveller’s Sound, DD Signs,Betencourt Deli,Paper Craft, Gobind’s Variety Store, Universal Janitorial Services, Palace de Leon and Sacha Cosmetics.
Over the years sonia have beed involved in charity shows not only in her home Guyana but in Suriname,Barbados,St Lucia.
Keep up the good work Sonia we here at gtshowbiz.com supports you 100% and do encourage the public to do so.
Kingston, Jamaica – The First Lady, D’Angel will be one of the featured acts in a diverse mixture of artiste scheduled to perform at this year’s staging of the Hanover Jerk and Curry Festival to be held at the Lucea Bus Park on Sunday, November 29. This year’s festival will feature the re-energized superstar Jah Cure, Dancehall’s First Lady D’Angel, the spiritual messenger Goddy Goddy, the blazing I-Octane, singer Princess T and other performers from the Digicel’s Rising Stars 09 Cast including Brown Sugar amongst others. According to the event coordinator, Darcel ‘DC’ Grant, “We were honored to have D’Angel as apart of the diverse line up of artist, the festival will start from in the afternoon on Sunday and will bring out a wide range of jerk and curry foods to enhance the theme of this traditional festival.” He also adds, “come early, fully yuh belly, enjoy a treat of great entertainers and leave satisfied”.
D’Angel have a very hectic upcoming weekend ahead as she and some selected dancehall artistes have been confirmed to be apart of Digicel’s Island Wide Tour which kicks of this Friday in Port Antonio along with some of the Digicel’s cast of Rising Stars performers. The Diva will also be on a live interview that same night on ZIP FM inside the Kat’s House from 11pm with host Phat Kat. On Saturday the Digicel Tour continues to Linstead and the emerging artiste will get a chance to showcase their talent while promoting Digicel’s ‘Bigger Better Network’ slogan. Aside from the Hanover Fest this Sunday, be sure to check out the First Lady at the CB Pan Chicken Finals in New Kingston.
GSB.com caught wind of some very sad news just yesterday afternoon, Local Actor/Producer Joel Fraser was found dead on the seawall alone the East Coast highway just behind the Ocean view International hotel.
Speculations are that the young man was carried there and then killed, However we are not too keen on what exactly went down but we working on bring you the full story later.
As we reported awhile back that folks out on the streets have been whispering about Timeka Marshall dropping her manager Kerwin Bollers, well we can now bring you up to speed that it was nothing but a silly rumor.
GSB.com caught up with Mr. Bollers recently and he has confirmed to us that he is still actively Ms. Marshall's manager and people should dismiss such rumors.
Word on the street is that our local songstress Timeka Marshall is no longer managed by her Guyanese manager. Mr. Bollers who managed her from the beginning of her career was dropped by Ms. Marshall and this is believed to have happened for some time now.
According to our source Timeka who now resides in Jamaica was forced to find new management because of problems faced in the past. The fact that Mr. Bollers is mostly in Guyana and things not going the way they should with him being all the way in Guyana and rarely even making contact, she had no choice but to drop him.
We at GSB.com cannot confirm this but as usual we will keep you guys updated!
GSB.com just caught word that our very own Ms. Imarah continues to get her shine on has she has also been chosen to dance on the night of the final of the Miss World pageant on December 13.
It is said that Ms. Imarah Radix is keeping her name on top and will do her best to promote her country and the piece that she will be performing is indeed from her heart and will make her fellow Guyanese proud.
She was also featured on the cover of the Sunday Times paper in Johannesburg last Sunday.
This Grenada born lady who grew up between the Spice Island and Guyana before winging off to London to study was also photographed in one of the Guyanese designer Rhonda Dunbar's creations at a gala reception in Abu Dhabi.
The ladies flew to the Eastern Cape and are staying at the Radisson overlooking the beach. She is also set to compete in the sporting events which start today following a gala dinner last night. While Guyanese have expressed mixed reactions to this lady as the country’s beauty ambassador Grenada, the land of her birth has embraced her and is publishing stories about her. That country has no representative to the pageant this year.
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Our girl Beyonce does it again this time she teams up with fellow pop star Lady Gaga for the remix of her hot new single Video Phone.
It already has your approval.
Guys check it out and tell us what ya'll think it.
Universal changed “Couples Retreat” marketing
for the film’s UK release. The company removed the black actors from both the poster’s photo and the list of stars in the type list.
Faizon Love and Tasha Smith were completely taken off the poster and we can’t help but wonder why. We don’t know how important their roles are in the film, but for them to be featured in the initial poster and then be taken off, is a bit suspect.
Universal said it regretted causing any offense, and it has abandoned plans to use the revised poster in other countries. A Universal spokesman said the revised advertisment was aimed ‘to simplify’ the poster to actors who are the most recognizable in international markets. SMH
The mining community will be buzzing with international entertainment at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground with live performances from Jamaican reggae sensations Tarrus Riley and Duane Stephenson as well as Brazilian sensation Pepe Merino.
Titled Stress release Fest the artistes will be backed by the Black Widow Band out of Kingston Jamaica.
Promoter Derek Wilson of Fast Forward Productions, the group that brought Cecile and Serrani to Guyana last January 1 is among the directors of the event. He said there is no beef with the Kashif and Shanghai Organization which will also be staging the annual Football tournament but said their venture out grew the Linden venue an entertainment and economic void was created.
He explained that “Linden is considered as a depressed community with almost no major economic activity happening and our community had gotten accustomed to having the football tournament but for economic reasons the event has moved to the national/ international level understandably so. Given that; that event also created a major economic boost for resident we are having this show to ensure that Linden has some economic activity during the festive season while providing international entertainment at the next level.”
Promotion team players businessmen Winston ‘ZAR’ Caesar and Kevin Barren among others said they decided to create another avenue for Lindeners and at the same time offer chances for some domestic tourism via entertainment to take place in the community. Promoter Derek Wilson said “We are inviting all 
The artistes are scheduled to arrive in Guyana on December 31 and will be featured on a motorcade at Linden on the same day.
The promoter said “We have already collected our signed contracts and the flights are already booked so people need not worry about the show not coming off.” He listed the sponsors as including Ansa Mcal, Demtoco, Sterling products and several other co-operate citizens.
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GSB.com just caught wind that Lady Gaga will be teraming up with our girl Beyonce for a new track.According to Univeral Music Group, Beyonce will be a featured artist on ''Telephone'. The track is produced by Darkchild and is rumored to be the 2nd single from the Fame Monster. Gaga and Beyonce recently collaborated on Beyonce's upcoming single ''Video Phone''.
This sounds like it's gonna be really interesting to hear, we will be looking out for this one as usual and also be sure to keep on the look out for ''Video Phone''.
Last evening the community of Republic Park was thrown into shock as a 16-year-old resident shot herself dead in the right side chest minutes after sharing conversation with her father.Dead is Lisa Prashad of 319 Republic Park, a fifth form student at the Marian’s Academy who was preparing to write CSEC.
The America-born teen according to her father, Lincoln Prashad, went home early after she complained of feeling unwell.
“This is unexplainable. We never expected this at all. We are shocked. She came home early after her teacher called saying that she was feeling unwell and we gaffed a bit then she went to her room. Minutes later me and her mother heard what sounded like something fall down in the kitchen and I told her mother to check and see if something fall off the stove.”
Her mother said she went into the kitchen and all was well. “Then I heard a gasping sound and though I’d check on her.”
She said when she went into her daughter’s room she heard her gasping and started to rub her head in the dimly lit room thinking that she was just not feeling well. “I hold her and started rubbing her head and then when I started rubbing her back I realized that my hand was wet and when I turned on the light I saw her father’s gun on the bed and then realized that she was bleeding.”
The mother screamed for her baby and her father ran into the room. It was then that he realized that his daughter had used his gun to shoot herself. “She was gasping and I grabbed her and ran out the house into the car and to the hospital.”
But when they got there it was too late. She had died. Neighbours who expressed utter shock and disbelief described her as a quiet girl who did not mix in the community but was very mannerly.
“She had friends who would go over there and hang outside sometimes but that aside she was basically a loner,” one neighbour said.
Another said that she was preparing to watch Prime News when she heard what she though was a firecracker or a gunshot, which she says is a regular occurrence in the neighbourhood. Then news came that the pretty, quiet girl whom she saw grow up in the community had killed herself.
“This is a total shock because she is the opposite of her sister in Canada. The sister was more social and outgoing but was a top student while (this one) was quieter and somewhat antisocial.”
Lisa was pronounced dead at the Woodlands Hospital where she was rushed minutes after
shooting herself.
Police in a press release last night said they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the apparent suicide, which occurred at the dead girl’s parents’ home at Republic Park, East Bank Demerara, at about 19:00 hours. The police said that the firearm, a .32 pistol, is in police custody.
Reports are surfacing that in the teens left palm the police saw the writings that said “Gabriel Edward, I love you, hope you are happy now”.
We'll keep you updated!
All roads lead to the Roraima Duke Lodge this (Saturday) where a promise of high definition sound from live performances and all out partying to quality Guyanese et al vibes is on the offer from Adrian Dutchin and Jumo Primo.
Known as X2 (times two) after five years, many singles, touring the world with Byron Lee and the Dragonaires and Kross Fyah and winning three Guyana Accolade Music Awards the duo’s album featuring sixteen tracks is done and ready for launch with a mega party.
Under management from veteran musician Burchmore Simon and his Kross Kolor label the duo said “we are ready to give Guyanese a full album as a prelude to heading to Europe in 2010”.
The album sponsored and endorsed by Digicel Guyana is set for launch at the Roraima Duke Lodge, Kingston with sponsorship from Banks DIH, HJtv, In da mix etc. Yesterday Simon assured that “the new songs on the album will eclipse the pass hits.”
Planned as a mega event, the artistes will be entertaining live with songs from the ‘Kross roads’ album live. “Ladies come expecting an energetic evening with mixed up moods that cater to the people who want soca, R&B etc, etc,” promised Jumo rubber waist. The new album features songs including let's rock, you are the one, in meh blood, Wucka man, krazy, over you, slow wine, Push it back, Belly dancer, they don’t know, let’s party, tick tock, whole wine and redd in genres of pop, dance, reggae dancehall and soca. However Simon said “it is produced in a combination that says it is uniquely Guyanese but done at the international standards.” Simon who doubles as the produced the said too that “on Saturday fans will experience the versatility that has distinguished X2 as star performers at this party and the first 100 patrons will walk away with a free CD.”
Digicel’s Marketing Director Donavon White endorsing the duo and the album commends there strides and said the duo exemplifies the qualities that his company stands for.
“They have been around with sponsorship since Umobile remain even with the transition to Digicel because these guys are real, dynamic, ever evolving and ever advancing and that’s what our company is about so they have our unwavering support,” White said. He also encourages local music fans to come to the launch and then go out and buy the original CD to support the development of the music industry. “Go buy an original CD and stop making copies so that the guys and the local industry can further advance,” he admonished.
In 2008 the duo won several Accolade Music Awards for Video of the Year, Soca Single of the Year and Song of the Year and they are again nominated in several categories for 2009 awards. That event has been shifted to December. In addition, Adrian Dutchin won several crystals on his own.
The duo whom some described as the ones who started the local music and videos revolution are popular for hits such as Krazy, Tick Tac, Push it back, In Meh Blood, Hands up, Half Wine and I ain’t Leaving.
Inside information is that the entertainers with fans at home and abroad will be more focussed on making their X2 brand bigger in the European market and have been spotted by producers in Europe.
Dutchin has been outstanding since he left the group 'Seven' and became a signed artiste with Kross Kolor Records. His most notable achievement has been the winning of the Carib Soca Monarch Three times and is at present undefeated since he has taken some time off from the competition. Word is that he is contemplating a return to the competition next year. He has written and performed many popular songs including the immensely popular ‘Impossible’ soca hit.
Jumo Primo aka Rubber Waist, the other half of X2 has been a member of Byron Lee and The Dragonaires for more than six years and has developed a reputation for energetic as well as sensual performances that leave many in awe especially those of the female persuasion.
The duo endorses Digicel Guyana and has been supported by a host of other companies.
Vybz Kartel aka 'Addi di teacha' Set to Invade Guyana for the Second Time Around on Dec 12th 2k9 !!!
Yep Yep that's right folks GSB.com caught word form source that Vybz Kartel will be in Guyana on December 12th 2009 and hes coming with his entire entourage.
Here's the report we received:
Conscious Minds Promotions are living up to the promise to offer Guyana a second serving of ‘Caribbean Michael Jackson’ Vybz Kartel and his Portmore Empire. This time around they are teaming up Guyana’s number one entertainment promoters Hits and Jams to take entertainment to yet another level for the festive season.
While he has not disclosed the venue just yet, Entertainer Kerwin Bollers has confirmed that Vybz Kartel is set to invade the local shores with his Portmore Empire on December 12. The Portmore Empire performed in Guyana at the national stadium but Black Ryno, a Portmore member was missing. Word from the promoters is that he will be in the crew this time around.
Kartel called De Teacher along with Shawn Storm, Doza Medicine, Lisa Hype all represented. On that show Kartel and his Portmore Empire along with Konshens entertained as did Spice, D’Angel and Erup.
So guys yall better start preparing now don't wait last minute to go borrow money from Jackie next door, we telling yall early !!!
GAZA WE SEH !!!
