Guyana Review

The surfeit of book exhibitions and book launches that were  part of the CARIFESTA X programme would have been a nostalgic  treat for Guyanese book lovers  whose passion for reading has for so long been frustrated by the  difficulties associated with the acquisition of good reading material in Guyana.

(West Indies and British Guiana) (Reprinted by permission of the estate of C.L.R.

Machinations towards Guyana’s Independence, May 1966 In our September issue the Guyana Review inadvertently published part of this article rather than the full text.

There was a poignant symbolism to Carifesta’s homecoming, its return, thirty-six years later, to the place of its birth.

By Barrington Braithwaite Ideas and Ideals do not always determine realization in the lifetime of they who spend the tortured nights struggling to shape and define the images that will grab our attention and stir our imagination to be likewise inspired and to  respond, transcending what we have already accepted as the epitome of our general ideas of self definition, the concept that fired the many creative souls around the Caribbean and from Guyana that nurtured and contributed to the creation of the lofty manifestation of the Caribbean Festival Of Arts [ CARIFESTA ] in 1972, did not want only to create a four year Arts Expo tradition, but to expand into a Caribbean  Arts Industry, The Political leaders no doubt believed in it and envisaged a block of cultural products that would eventually earn its own economic independence, what many of them did not understand was that their  political guidance and preferences would  be the undoing of this splendid idea.

By David Granger Onlookers at the Guyana Police Force’s169th anniversary parade last July must have been astonished at the sight of some Britishers in typical beachcombers’ gear marching amidst their differently attired Guyanese counterparts.

By Gregory Mc Guire We have all come to the understanding that Prime Minister Patrick Manning abhors gambling.

Guyana’s periodical press has survived through resilience and resourcefulness for over two centuries.

Remarks by Major General (retd) Joseph G Singh at the commemoration of the 23rd Death Anniversary of President LFS Burnham, OE, SC, Wednesday, August 06, 2008Major General (retd) Joseph G SinghChairperson, Ms Genevieve Allen, National Secretary, National Congress of Women, Leader of the Opposition and of the PNCR, Mrs Corbin, General Secretary PNCR, Chairman PSC, Distinguished Invitees and particularly members of the Late President’s family-Kamana, President Burnham’s close colleagues and supporters, I am honoured to have been invited to give some reflections in keeping with the chosen theme for the observance of the 23rd death anniversary of President Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, OE, SC.

For almost fifty years Arif Ali has immersed himself in the business  of print media.

(Reprinted by permission of the estate of C.L.R. James – copyright protected) Part 1 This lecture was delivered in June 1958 at Queen’s College, Demerara, in then British Guiana.

Machinations towards Guyana’s Independence, May 1966By Clem SeecharanProfessor of Caribbean History and Head of Caribbean Studies, London Metropolitan University (forthcoming in Round Table October 2008) Guyana (formerly British Guiana), the only British colony on the mainland of South America, became independent at midnight on 26 May 1966.

MV Mc Rae is an animated Romanian  woman with a Guyanese husband, a profession as a doctor and a passion for poetry.

Do persistent calls for an end to the tenure of Guyana Football Federation President Colin Klass mark an emerging awareness among stakeholders of the potential of football as a vehicle for fostering national pride?

Available research points to a number of gatherings of creative spirits in the region long before the genesis of CARIFESTA in 1972. 

Houses of culture: Wooden cultural iconic edifices of Georgetown Francis Quamina Farrier reflects on three of Georgetown’s wooden buildings and their impact on the shaping of contemporary Guyanese culture.

At the start who would ever have thought that such a summit might be climbed?

Written by Cara Dunn-Gibson (The poet lives in the Royal County of Berkshire, England) What I see in Guyana Is a coconut tree swinging in the wind It’s trunk, brown and mild like a newborn foal.

Andrea Rohlehr-McAdam was born and raised in Georgetown, Guyana. She lived there  until the age of sixteen after which she and her family relocated to Linden. 

Acceptance speech by Geoge Lamming on the occasion of the conferral of the Order Of The Caribbean Community At the opening of the 29th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community,1-4 July, 2008, Bolans, Antigua and Barbuda (edited copy) I acknowledge that this is a moment of self -congratulation and I hope you will not think me subversive if I  draw to your attention certain anxieties which I believe will also engage the attention of Professor Nettleford.