CARIFESTA launched with limbo and masquerade and other things Caribbean
- President pledges ‘safe and secure’ event
THE steel band encapsulated Guyanese music, ranging from the folk song “Jane Engage” to that Chutney tune “Guyanese Baboo.” A Trinidadian limbo dancer set the stage on fire. And African maroon and Javanese dancers from Suriname mesmerized with a fusion of their music, dance and martial arts.
Then President Bharrat […]
Boosting infrastructure for Carifesta homecoming
AS it prepares to host, for the second time in 36 years, the premier Festival of Arts in the Caribbean, the Government of Guyana is working at full speed to ensure that the necessary infrastructure is in place for the Caribbean Festival of Creative Arts, Carifesta X, slated for August 22-31, 2008.
Hosted under the theme: […]
All set for mega CARIFESTA launch today
WITH the arrival of performers from neighbouring Suriname and from Trinidad and Tobago, the stage is set for a mega launch this evening of the tenth Caribbean Festival of Creative Arts (CARIFESTA).
Hailed as the premier event in the Caribbean’s cultural calendar, CARIFESTA is returning to Guyana for the first time since its inaugural staging in […]
Boosting infrastructure for Carifesta homecoming
AS it prepares to host, for the second time in 36 years, the premier Festival of Arts in the Caribbean, the Government of Guyana is working at full speed to ensure that the necessary infrastructure is in place for the Caribbean Festival of Creative Arts, Carifesta X, slated for August 22-31, 2008.
Hosted under the theme: […]
Regional Cultural Committee to discuss CARIFESTA
REPARATIONS for Carifesta X, the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) premiere Festival of Arts, will be one of the priority issues on the agenda of the Nineteenth Meeting of the Regional Cultural Committee (RCC) slated to open in Guyana today.
Coordinated by the Interim Festival Directorate (IFD), the regional advisory body on Carifesta, the Festival is positioned by […]
Carifesta must go on
It is often said that when events of a national flavour take place, all are involved, regardless of which political party is in power. Lo and behold, in the wake of CARIFESTA X coming to Guyana soon, PNCR leader, Robert Corbin, had during a recent protest march declared that if the CNS channel 6 […]
An affront to the memory of Forbes Burnham
The recent statement of Mr. Corbin about making the upcoming Carifesta X unmanageable is an affront to the memory of the late founder leader of the PNC Mr. Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham.
The festival of Carifesta is one of the most endearing legacies of the Burnham regime and one of the few things that is being […]
Biggest ever CARIFESTA
The returning of Carifesta to its birth land is a blessing. This event will provide many opportunities and open much needed avenues for our local artistes to finally get the recognition that they deserve.
The Carifesta event is slated to be bigger than World Cup Cricket games in Guyana. Thousands of people from various regions of […]
Carifesta
MINISTER of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony said that Caribbean Festival of Creative Arts (CARIFESTA) is escalating from being just a Caribbean event with a team from Indonesia coming to participate in this historic event from August 22-31.
Speaking at the launching of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Company launching of the 2008 […]
Banks DIH sprucing up for Carifesta
BANKS DIH Ltd has unveiled a massive Tri-Vision billboard to enhance the ambience of the lower East Bank Demerara for the 10th Caribbean Festival of Creative Art (Carifesta) to be held here in August.
The sign commissioned at Banks DIH Thirst Park is 54 feet high and 20 feet wide, with the company’s three popular […]
