Dear Editor,
I seldom use the description “Icons” and “Celebrities”. But sometimes, from my youth, I say or write “stars”. Though she is not as well-known as she should be in her Guyana homeland, Carol Christine Hilaria (CCH) Pounder is an acclaimed movie and television actress now resident in New Orleans, Louisiana U.S.A. Just Google to discover her stellar achievements.
Three score and ten (70 years old) on this past Christmas Day, Madam CCH came off to me as an unassuming, confident but accommodating international star when she tolerated me in a one-on-one encounter last Saturday for 45 minutes (she even laughed when I revealed that that was the very first time I ever ventured into our Kingston, Georgetown Marriott.)
One thing puzzled me with a heavy touch of disappointment: why did not any top-tier official authority recognise and pay tribute to this Guyanese-American actress-celebrity even as President Ali has invited a younger achiever- Letitia Wright, of “Black Panther” fame, to visit us formally? Pity that the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport seems to be (exclusively) all about “sport”. Poor us.
Sincerely,
Allan Arthur Fenty
