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Jamaica: Kingston On The Edge

Skye Hernandez — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:34:28 +0000

From Jamaica, Active Voice reviews KOTE (Kingston On The Edge), a visual arts festival, where she says “For a brief moment in time we were treated to the kind of vibrant effervescent atmosphere we ought legitimately to expect from a well-connected and functioning art scene.”

Guyana: Death of a President

Skye Hernandez — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:23:40 +0000

Ruel Johnson's Fictions notes the passing yesterday of Arthur Chung, the first President of Guyana, at the age of 90. He held the post from 1970 to 1980, and was “the first ethnic Chinese President of a non-Asian country.”

Barbados, Venezuela: Maritime Claim

Janine Mendes-Franco — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:32:58 +0000

Notes From The Margin sheds some light on the Barbados/Venezuela maritime controversy, saying: “The waters under discussion can ONLY be Venezuela's if you accept that
1. Half of Guyana is actually Venezuela.
2. That two countries (Venezuela and Trinidad) can commit a third and fourth countries (Barbados and Guyana) to some form of agreement…without consulting them.”

Guyana: Good Boys

Janine Mendes-Franco — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:26:44 +0000

Guyana-Gyal wonders where all the good boys have gone…

Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago: Calabashing Walcott

Janine Mendes-Franco — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:19:19 +0000

Jamaican blogger Annie Paul quotes Guyana's Stabroek News on Walcott's anti-Naipaul poem, The Mongoose.

Guyana: Black Friday

Janine Mendes-Franco — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:56:21 +0000

Signifyin' Guyana remembers politician Walter Rodney on the 28th anniversary of his assassination.

Guyana: Love and Marriage

Janine Mendes-Franco — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:06:11 +0000

“It is a shock to some people system, nice, nice gyal like you ain’t married yet? A gyal should not walk around unfettered by man”: Guyana-Gyal has other ideas.

Guyana: Who's The Boss?

Janine Mendes-Franco — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:19:07 +0000

“Aiye, mummy, imagine what can happen to poor li’l countries that have role models and leaders like Big Boss Man”: Guyana-Gyal tells the story of an abuse of power and says that “some things are just too hard to understand, especially in the pre-rain, sticky heat.”

Guyana: It's Not Easy Being Green

Janine Mendes-Franco — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:45:08 +0000

Guyana-Gyal was trying to get into the spirit of World Environment Week - until she encountered a frog.

Guyana: Lines of Love

Janine Mendes-Franco — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:07:55 +0000

Signifyin' Guyana uses John Agard's poetry to explain why she cannot separate love from sex: “The poems speak on all possible aspects of a couple's involvement–the physical, the cerebral, the spiritual…”

Guyana: Wining Season

Janine Mendes-Franco — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:30:10 +0000

“All the time at any given time there is always a set of wining up and wining down to launch a product, open a building or school, celebrate an anniversary or any occasion for that matter”: Living Guyana figures there must be a more appropriate way to demonstrate support.

Guyana: Racism and the Writer

Janine Mendes-Franco — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:43:49 +0000

“In a small society such as ours, with limited access to resources, a political system that is based on racial division is going to naturally shape a racially defined socio-economic system, the definition of politics after all being who gets what, when and how”: Writer Ruel Johnson blogs about racism in Guyana.

Guyana: Identity Crisis?

Janine Mendes-Franco — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:55:49 +0000

Signifying Guyana blogs about her “personal struggle with a hyphenated identity”.

Guyana: We the Bloggers

Janine Mendes-Franco — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:48:51 +0000

“You know that feeling you get when somebody compliment you but they slip in a few digs, so you end up puzzled?” A newspaper editorial compares news-blogs and traditional media, leaving Guyana-Gyal to comment: “Go on, you bloggahs you…give yourself a pat…for sharing your stories, histories, thoughts…and for bringing world-citizens a teeny-eeny bit closer in a way only we the people can.”

Guyana: Copyright Laws

Janine Mendes-Franco — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:47:27 +0000

Signifyin' Guyana comes across an article on copyright laws in Guyana that “made (her) jaw drop.”