Stories & Guides — written in New Amsterdam.
Practical, original guides to Berbice and to broadcasting, written by the team who live here and run the stations. How to reach us, what to see, where to stay, what is on the radio, and how a small business gets on air. Every guide is free to read and free to share.
Berbice & New Amsterdam
Where we are — how to get here, what to see, where to stay and what to eat.
What to see and do in New Amsterdam — a visitor’s guide
The town’s real landmarks — the Town Hall, Mission Chapel, the Scots Church, the Esplanade, the market and the bridge — and what is actually worth your morning.
Getting to Berbice — how to travel, get around, and when to come
From the airport to New Amsterdam: the route, the minibuses, the bridge, the ferry to Suriname, and the practical facts that catch visitors out.
Where to stay in New Amsterdam — what to expect from a Berbice hotel
What a Berbice hotel is actually like, what to ask before you book, and what to expect on arrival in New Amsterdam.
Berbice food and drink — a visitor’s primer
What Guyanese food actually is, what to order, what to drink, and why the oldest rum still in the world started life in Berbice.
Planning a wedding or banquet in Berbice — a practical checklist
A month-by-month checklist for a wedding, banquet or conference in Berbice — venue, catering, sound, and the questions people forget.
Guyanese dominoes explained — the rules, six love, and yard etiquette
How the Caribbean partner game is actually played, what “six love” really means, and how to sit down at a table in Guyana without embarrassing yourself.
Radio & television
What is on our stations, how they are made, and how broadcasting works in Guyana.
The 88.5 Rock FM programme guide — every show, every host, every hour
Written out properly: what is on 88.5 Rock FM at every hour of the week, who presents it, and how to listen from anywhere.
How to send a greeting to the studio and hear it on air
The Rock Room is 88.5’s live greetings wall. Here is how to join in twenty seconds, post a greeting, and get it read out on the radio.
How to watch LRTVS Channel 10 and follow Berbice news
Every way to watch Channel 10 and keep up with Berbice news — on television at home, online abroad, and by newsletter.
How a small TV newsroom works — inside LRTVS NewsWatch
How a regional newsroom in Berbice gets from a phone call in the morning to a broadcast newscast and a published article the same evening.
Guyana’s broadcast landscape explained — licensing, zones and why local stations matter
Who regulates radio and television in Guyana, how a licence actually works, what the zones mean, and why a regional station is not a small national one.
For businesses & families
Practical guides to advertising, announcements and getting the word out.
How radio advertising works in Berbice
Spots, live reads, sponsorships and packages — a plain-language guide for a small business buying its first radio advertising.
Advertising on television in Guyana — a beginner’s guide
What a TV spot costs you in effort, what “news adjacency” means, and how a small business gets a commercial made without an agency.
Announcements in Berbice — obituaries, tributes and congratulations on air
How death announcements, memorials, congratulations, vacancies and legal notices get on Berbice radio and television — and what to send.
Our story & our shelf
Where Little Rock came from, and what we have published.
A short history of Little Rock Guyana
From a hotel in Vryman’s Erven to Berbice’s first television station and first radio station — the story of one Berbice family business.
Books by Naomi E. Christie — a reader’s guide to the Little Rock Press shelf
A reader’s guide to the Little Rock Press shelf — what each book is, who it is for, and where to start.
How we write them
Written here
Every guide on this page is written by the Little Rock Guyana team in New Amsterdam. Nothing is reprinted from elsewhere, and nothing appears on our other websites.
Sources at the foot
Where a fact could be challenged — a date, a rule, a rate — we say where it comes from. Every guide carries its sources at the bottom so you can check them yourself.
Tell us if we are wrong
If something here is out of date or incorrect, write to us and we will fix it. 88.5rockfm@gmail.com, or WhatsApp +592 741-4911.
Little Rock Guyana
Phone
592-333-4758 · 592-333-3758 · 592-333-4445
Where we are
10 Main and Church Streets, New Amsterdam, Berbice, Guyana