The Ministry of Culture yesterday advertised a competition for the design of a monument for Indian Arrival Day, May 5.
An advertisement in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek, said that the National Planning Committee in collaboration with the ministry plans to erect a monument in recognition of Indian Arrival Day.
Entries have to be submitted to the Director of Culture, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, 94 Carmichael Street no later than Friday, July 12, 2013. Entry forms can be uplifted from the same address. The winning entry will receive a cash prize of $500,000 and will become the propertyof the Ministry of Culture. The ad says that the winning entry will be determined by a panel of independent judges.
About the monument itself, the ad said that it is “expected to be a structure of high quality and artistically wrought to symbolize in its composite and/or overall statement an image worthy of acceptance as an icon of the 1838 Indian Arrival. The nature, structure, size, medium andlocation of the monument are to be suggested by the designer or artist.
The structure must be a fitting memorial at a location which has emotional and physical connect to the descendants of the people of Indian origin who arrived in Guyana on the May 5, 1838.”