By Barrington Braithwaite
The issue of publishing and the national ethos has never been treated with deserving seriousness. Guyana has never had a publishing establishment outside of newspapers though there were publications that persisted on account of the persistence of individuals. The Guiana Times News Magazine of the 1950s, edited and by Percy Armstrong and, subsequently, Free Press’ Guyana Review were the only journals that covered the social /political happenings in the country. All else has been the task of the daily newspapers.
Books written by Guyanese were mainly published and printed overseas though efforts at publication at the local