Thoughts of a minibus traveller

  Guyana in Greek Saturday afternoon in the National Art Gallery at Castellani House. People sitting in half of the seats near the beautiful paintings. Professor  Stephanos Stephanides delivers the Martin Carter lecture. He talks about working in Guyana, about going to Blairmont to be involved in Kali Mai puja and about Martin Carter encouraging his poetry.  He is from Cyprus, more violently divided (fractured) than Guyana. He talks about the Mediterranean and Caribbean. He talks about reverse gaze and Greek and Sanskrit words and 'theory' and so on. And Memory Fiction .He says that when asked for his bio for the lecture, he told the moderator 'you are a fiction writer.. go on, write something and invent me.. ". I understood it all when listening but have forgotten some stuff as I did not make notes and the Ministry of Culture has not made the lecture public if they have recorded it. The moderator had to stop him because 'time' runs out and there was some space...

  "Buxton at it again" Sun is hot. The social media timelines in Guyana are full of the sound bytes from actress Letitia Wright - returning to Guyana after leaving as a child. Then the messages float up.. 'Buxton at it again.. ' and so on.  Some of the people sharing those messages were not sharing the admiration for Letitia Wright.   "Godfather" 300 to 400 citizens who remained in Guyana took to the East Coast Public Road on the day that UG conferred an honorary doctorate on Letitia Wright. The citizens were reportedly upset that the Police fired shots in Buxton as they chased a man they suspected of having marijuana. Some of the citizens call the man  their Godfather.   On the day that Baba Prezzy gave the framed birth certificate to her while  PNC leaders and supporters were expecting her outside City Hall, some of the citizens burned the truck which had transported rice. Some of the citizens who were blocking the road also robbed another c...