88.5 Rock FM · New Amsterdam, Berbice
Late radio, for everyone still awake
the ground you sleep on
For shift workers, students, drivers — and you. Late-night radio out of New Amsterdam, running to midnight. If you are working through, studying through or driving through, the Owls are up with you.
On the mic
The voices you hear monday to friday between 21:00 and 00:00.
Host
On the decks
Get on the air
The Rock Room is 88.5’s live greetings wall. Post a greeting — with a song request if you like — tick “read this on air”, and when a DJ reads it out you get a notification telling you who read it and when. It is free, and it takes about twenty seconds.
We keep watch of the night
The Owls' almanac — computed fresh every night you open it.
Five planets need no telescope — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn — and people have watched them since before writing existed. Venus is the brilliant "star" near sunrise or sunset; Mars carries a faint rust colour; Jupiter outshines every true star. If a bright "star" doesn't twinkle — that's a planet.
Berbice sits 6° north of the equator — one of the few places that gets BOTH skies. The North Star sits low on one horizon while the Southern Cross climbs the other. Orion's three-star belt rises almost straight overhead, and Sirius — the brightest star of all — trails behind him like a lamp.
Owls hunt best in the deep hours because their eyes trade colour for light — they see the night the way we see the day. The watchman hours from nine to midnight have always belonged to those who stay awake so others can sleep: nurses, drivers, bakers, students, mothers. This show is yours.
Why we do the things we do
Did you know the year did not always have twelve months — and that four of them are wearing the wrong name tags? The calendar on your wall is two thousand years of history, patches and politics. Tap any month.
Rome's first calendar had only TEN months — it began in March and simply stopped counting through winter (about 61 unnamed days!). King Numa Pompilius added January and February around 713 BC to close the gap. Julius Caesar rebuilt the whole thing in 46 BC — the Julian calendar — and to catch up, that one year ran 445 days long: history calls it "the year of confusion." Pope Gregory XIII fine-tuned it again in 1582 (ten days vanished overnight — people genuinely protested for their "lost" days), and that Gregorian calendar is the one on your phone tonight.
Ever wonder why seven days? Babylon named them for the seven moving lights of the sky, and we never stopped: Sunday, Moonday, Tuesday (Mars — mardi in French), Wednesday (Mercury — mercredi), Thursday (Jupiter — jeudi), Friday (Venus — vendredi), Saturday (Saturn). Spicy teaches the same seven lights on this station every weekday morning — the rainbow and the week are the same old sky.
Three ways
Berbice’s own station — the lowest frequency in the country, and the highest in our hearts.
88.5 FM across Berbice. No data, no app, no account.
Press play at the bottom of this page. The stream keeps running while you use your phone, and the lock-screen controls work.
Install this page to your home screen and The Nightshift Owls opens like any other app.
For businesses
Spots, live reads and sponsorships are available in The Nightshift Owls. Live radio moves — public holidays, outside broadcasts and community events displace the normal schedule — so confirm the hour on the day.
