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Culture and the Arts

Another View of CARIFESTA

5 September 2008

Alissa Trotz makes some salient points (hey, Alissa!!) In the Diaspora : Stabroek News In a presentation made at the Caricom Heads of Govern-ment Conference in July, Barbadian novelist George Lamming took Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo to task for the following comment “…and now we come to the lighter side, CARIFESTA in Guyana.” There is [...]

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Coming Late to the Party

23 July 2008

And not knowing whether I will take part because I can barely keep up, but: There’s a reading challenge going on this year that I’d like to alert people to, just in case. It’s the Africa Reading Challenge: Participants commit to read – in the course of 2008 – six books that either were written [...]

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