Locally-funded publishing house Caribbean Press is facing a serious human resource crisis as its current editor Professor David Dabydeen plans to take a back seat to focus on his own writing and his quest to find suitable candidates to take up the mantle has hit a brick wall.
Dabydeen, responding to emailed questions from Stabroek News, feels that the press would “either die completely or else do the odd book.”
And according to the Professor there is “possibly nobody of competence in Guyana to run the Press” and as a further indictment of local writers he said they are “poor in quality and lazy”.
“Laziness and incompetence,” he continued, adding that he had written a letter published in this newspaper inviting people to join the Press and provided his email address but no one has responded.
“So the Press will either die completely, or else do the odd book: the fate of Kyk Over Al,”
