Dr Rupert Roopnaraine to deliver 2012 Martin Carter Memorial Lecture

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