Escapist-like, today I veer away from all those current issues of national significance, which too often tend to be stressful, provocative or controversial.
Taking a break, I’ll recycle thoughts on aspects of our cultural expression and heritage whilst blowing sharp blast on my own trumpet. You see, I produce and present a weekend television family-oriented show named “The Guyana Cook-up Show” and on radio another programme titled “Bun-bun” (getting to the bottom of Guyanese folklore). Man the latter is evidently evoking lots of nostalgia amongst over-50 listeners and some interest among those younger Guyanese who actually listen – or hear it.
Ironically, my take is to promote aspects of Guyanese folkloric culture – proverbs, folk songs, shanties, ring games, superstitions, spirit beings, foods, et al – in the face of what I deem to be the overwhelming intrusions of Jamaican and
