Prominent scholar-politician Dr Rupert Roopnaraine has agreed to deliver this year’s Martin Carter Memorial Lecture which is scheduled for the Umana Yana on Thursday, June 28.
Now a significant event on the annual calendar of the Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport, the lecture is regarded as a prestigious literary and cultural contribution by the ministry which issued the invitation to Dr Roopnaraine as Distinguished Guyanese Scholar, Intellectual and Literary Critic, the ministry said in a press release.
And in an innovative departure this year, the lecture will be