Mark McGowan

The Artistic Director of the Cayman National Cultural Foundation, Henry Muttoo, believes that the entire structure of Carifesta needs to be revamped.

The two productions of the play Going for Love held on Monday at the Theatre Guild proved to be huge crowd pullers and pleasers.

The Barbadian delegation treated the small but appreciative crowd that gathered in the Queen’s College auditorium on Saturday night to an impressive production of Kamau Brathwaite’s Odale’s Choice.

Raymond, the spray man, edutainment and more The youth aspect of the Carifesta X celebrations got underway on Saturday with a symposium on edutainment held at the International Convention Centre at Liliendaal.

Guyana’s hosting of this year’s Carifesta is a “source of pride” for all Guyanese according to President Bharrat Jagdeo.

Carifesta is here and the Christian community will not be left out of the celebrations as there is a big gospel concert on the calendar of activities dubbed the ‘Carifesta Gospel Celebration’.

Persons who would have turned up yesterday at the various ticket distributing venues in the hope of obtaining tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies would have left those venues disappointed.

Guyana will be ready – Anthony Amidst a few glitches in plans and fears among some that the country is not adequately prepared to host the Carifesta X celebrations, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr.

Guyana Prize for Literature 2002 winner Ruel Johnson is set to launch his second publication Fictions at the upcoming mega arts festival – Carifesta.

Normally associated with the twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, steel pan music has been an important feature of previous Carifesta celebrations.

List of top 100 Caribbean books to be compiled So far, fifteen writers from abroad including Nobel Prize Winner Derek Walcott have confirmed their attendance for various aspects of Carifesta, according to Petamber Persaud, Head of the Sub-committee in charge of Literary Arts.