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  • Carifesta Ten… and then?

    By Staff | Wednesday, September 3, 2008 | 1 Comment

    Carifesta Ten... and then?

    There was a poignant symbolism to Carifesta’s homecoming, its return, thirty-six years later, to the place of its birth. The arrival of Carifesta here just over a week ago marked an unplanned diversion from a journey that ought to have taken it elsewhere... Read more »

  • The Carifesta dream

    By Staff | Wednesday, September 3, 2008 | 0 Comments

    The Carifesta dream

    By Barrington Braithwaite Ideas and Ideals do not always determine realization in the lifetime of they who spend the tortured nights struggling to shape and define the images that will grab our attention and stir our imagination to be likewise inspired... Read more »

  • Retraining the police

    By David Granger | Wednesday, September 3, 2008 | 1 Comment

    Retraining the police

    By David Granger Onlookers at the Guyana Police Force’s169th anniversary parade last July must have been astonished at the sight of some Britishers in typical beachcombers’ gear marching amidst their differently attired Guyanese counterparts. What... Read more »

  • Reading the signs right

    By Staff | Wednesday, September 3, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Reading the signs right

    By Gregory Mc Guire We have all come to the understanding that Prime Minister Patrick Manning abhors gambling. But those familiar with Play Whe or its local predecessor Whe Whe ,  may wish to advise the Prime Minister that there are important lessons... Read more »

  • Guyana’s periodicals

    By David Granger | Wednesday, September 3, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Guyana’s periodicals

    Guyana’s periodical press has survived through resilience and resourcefulness for over two centuries. This was so in part because Guyana’s polyglot population, most of whom are descendants of people who had been enslaved and brought to this country,... Read more »

  • On Federation (West Indies and British Guiana)

    By Staff | Wednesday, September 3, 2008 | 0 Comments

    (Reprinted by permission of the estate of C.L.R. James – copyright protected) Part 1 This lecture was delivered in June 1958 at Queen’s College, Demerara, in then British Guiana. It was issued as a pamphlet the following year with a foreword by L.F.S.... Read more »

  • Whose freedom at midnight?

    By Staff | Wednesday, September 3, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Whose freedom at midnight?

    Machinations towards Guyana’s Independence, May 1966 By Clem Seecharan Professor of Caribbean History and Head of Caribbean Studies, London Metropolitan University (forthcoming in Round Table October 2008) Guyana (formerly British Guiana), the only... Read more »

  • Clamouring for change!

    By Staff | Wednesday, September 3, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Clamouring for change!

    Do persistent calls for an end to the tenure of Guyana Football Federation President Colin Klass mark an emerging awareness among stakeholders of the potential of football as a vehicle for fostering national pride? Guyana Football Federation President... Read more »

  • Arts

    By Staff | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Arts

    Houses of culture: Wooden cultural iconic edifices of Georgetown Francis Quamina Farrier reflects on three of Georgetown’s wooden buildings and their impact on the shaping of contemporary Guyanese culture. Some buildings talk; at least they talk to... Read more »

  • Theatre lives!

    By Staff | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Theatre lives!

    At the start who would ever have thought that such a summit might be climbed? There has been nothing in the domain of private and public subscription which equals this. It has not been one or two great patrons who  have brought all this about. It has... Read more »

  • Poem

    By Staff | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 2 Comments

    Poem

    Written by Cara Dunn-Gibson (The poet lives in the Royal County of Berkshire, England) What I see in Guyana Is a coconut tree swinging in the wind It’s trunk, brown and mild like a newborn foal. What I see in Guyana Are wild cows eating the fresh green... Read more »

  • Fashion Focus

    By Staff | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 3 Comments

    Fashion Focus

    Andrea Rohlehr-McAdam was born and raised in Georgetown, Guyana. She lived there  until the age of sixteen after which she and her family relocated to Linden.  Two years later in 1977, she and her sister Karen migrated to Toronto, Canada where she would... Read more »

  • anxieties about the Caribbean condition

    By Staff | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 0 Comments

    anxieties about the Caribbean condition

    Acceptance speech by Geoge Lamming on the occasion of the conferral of the Order Of The Caribbean Community At the opening of the 29th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community,1-4 July, 2008, Bolans, Antigua and Barbuda... Read more »

  • Celebrating our culture:

    By Staff | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Celebrating our culture:

    Some festivals of the Caribbean All nations celebrate sacred or secular festivals of one sort or another. Here is a sample of festivals from ten Caribbean Community nation states −  The Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Grenada; Guyana; Haiti; Jamaica; St... Read more »

  • Chanderpaul, CARIFESTA and Caribbean pride

    By Staff | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 1 Comment

    Chanderpaul, CARIFESTA and Caribbean pride

    Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s accession to the top of the pile in the International Cricket Council’s best test batsman ratings takes its place beside CARIFESTA as a fitting tribute to the capacity of the Caribbean to achieve. Familiar ritual The accolade... Read more »

  • CARIFESTA… again!

    By Staff | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 0 Comments

    CARIFESTA... again!

    Historian Tommy Payne reflects on the origins of the Caribbean Festival of Arts and the reverberation of the inaugural event across space and time The song released for CARIFESTA X embraces the sentiments of pride, responsibility and determination. This,... Read more »

  • Not quite full circle

    By Staff | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Not quite full circle

    Our revels now are ended.  These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And like the baseless fabric of this vision . . . shall dissolve, And like this insubstantial pageant faded Leave not a rack behind. ... Read more »

  • Short story

    By Staff | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 1 Comment

    Carifesta… and so on By Ewalt Ainsworth Carifesta is about pan. Not panhandling. Carifesta is we. Weed and feed the nation, the region and all who choose to come. Carifesta is about building a head and getting ahead. Carifesta is about our behaviour... Read more »

  • Repositioning agriculture

    By Staff and Administrator | Thursday, June 26, 2008 | 3 Comments

    The Caribbean Community and the global food frenzy Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries really ought not to have found themselves  caught up in the current global food frenzy that has spawned gloomy  predictions of widespread starvation  unless... Read more »