Arts on Sunday

Children of Baby’ explores social, psychological reasons behind 1994 Buxton/Friendship killings through theatre

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.

Listening to the land: UG students during a field trip

UG’s campuses research and promote Pidgin, Creole, Indigenous languages

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.

Inside Guianame: A cultural treasure

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.;

Edgar Mittelholzer

Edgar Mittelholzer and Creole Chips

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.

Gaiutra Bahadur

Poetry, prose and the indentureship experience

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.

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