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Makeda Braitwaite: A fresh, new voice in Guyanese poetry
[Makeda Braithwaite, Go Fish: Go In De Pack, Bamboo Talk Press, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, 2024.
[Makeda Braithwaite, Go Fish: Go In De Pack, Bamboo Talk Press, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, 2024.
In the fading light of an ill-fated afternoon, at 5 pm on December 9, 1994, the peace and quiet of Buxton and Friendship on the East Coast Demerara in Guyana were tragically shattered when 34 year-old Hubert Headley, known to everyone as “Baby Arthur” ran berserk with a cutlass through the streets of the communities slaughtering six people and a dog and injuring two others.
Introduction [Today we are privileged to reprint another priceless archival treasure from the past.
The book Iris de Freitas Brazao, Legal Luminary and Trailblazer: Caribbean, Canada, Wales, England 1896-1989 was the winner of the Third Prize in the Guyana Prize for Non-Fiction 2023.
[We are privileged once again to have the opportunity to present another priceless archival document from 1966, the year of Guyana’s Independence.
By Alim Hosein [In a follow-up to his essay last week on the 2024 Joint Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics and the Society for Pidgin Languages set for August 5 – 9 at the University of Guyana Turkeyen and Berbice Campuses and hosted by the Department of Language and Cultural Studies, Alim Hosein looks at the study of these languages and oral literature at UG and the further relevance of the conference.
[This week, Arts on Sunday reproduces a rare detailed review and commentary on theatre in Guyana from the past.
The Guyanese theatre landscape welcomed with loud voices the return to the stage of an old favourite comedy – “Till Ah Find A Place” by Ronald Hollingsworth.
Every year around this time, we honour the extraordinary Caribbean poet Martin Carter, who was born in June.
[We present a review by Berkley Wendell Semple, Guyanese poet and novelist.
LOVE’S GUIDE One could see the beauty of the body But could only feel the beauty of the soul But what does it matter True love is blind Feeling is her seeing eyes Ivan Forrester [Inside Guianame, 4TH Edition, Spring, 2024, Guyana and Suriname, 2024; 120pp.;
The poems selected here are gifts to Guyana in celebration of 58 years of independence today, May 26, 2024.
The Confucius Institute at the University of Guyana (CIUG) celebrates its 10TH Anniversary today, having been inaugurated on May 19, 2014, in an official ceremony involving the President of Guyana and the Ambassador of China.
The ancient township of New Amsterdam in Berbice has still managed to resist the hurly-burly of modern development and retain quite a feel of its long existence as an old urban district with an old world, if not colonial, atmosphere.
Today is Arrival Day. To mark the anniversary of the landing of two noteworthy ships, The Hesperus and The Whitby on the shores of British Guiana on May 5, 186 years ago, here are short excerpts of prose and poetry documenting that immigration experience and its aftermath in various creative ways.
Dave Martins, a legend of Guyanese music, culture, and literature celebrated his 90th birthday last week.
On March 23 last, Lloyd N De Arts Productions, in partnership with students of the Tutorial High School in Georgetown, staged a production titled “The Chosen” at the Theatre Guild Playhouse.
Guyana is among the culturally fascinating countries where it is possible to have, in the same week, two separate holidays and a spiritual observance sacred to three different religions.
My Heart Leaps Up (or “The Rainbow”) My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die!
All the processes and events connected to the Guyana Prize for Literature 2023 concluded on May 3, when the curtains closed on the 2024 Literary Festival.
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