–  as Guyana celebrates Independence Day 2010
The  National Park came alive last night under the canopy of a starless sky, with the luminous face of a full moon exactly centered, silent witness to the pomp and ceremony as Guyana ushered in Independence Day 2010.
This Independence Day was observed as a truly national celebration of our freedom as people from all walks of life and from every background converged in the national Park.
Pride in nationhood and nationality was manifest in every timbre of resounding applause, especially when the President arrived, when he spoke of assenting to the Sexual Offences Bill, and when the GDF and Police Force Bands put on a scintillating display, with a comedic twist that had the audience in splits.
The tarmac erupted with a magnificent kaleidoscope of colours as Guyana’s children displayed their multiplicity of talents under the soft blanket of a soothing black night as a gentle breeze wafted in the air.
The ethos of togetherness within an ambience of the peculiar bonding, only Guyanese are capable of, resonated with goodwill and joyous celebration.  At age 44, Guyana has truly come of age.
The scintillating display of Guyana’s children from every corner of the country, and the skilled stilt-dancers and baton twirlers were mesmerizing crescendos of colour and symphonic sounds.
Dave Martins is awesome, as are our steel pans and tassas, all of which blended in bouyant melodic compositions peculiar only to Guyana, with its rich tapestry in a cultural mosaic uniquely Guyanese.
The Ministry of Culture has outdone itself.  The nation has outdone itself with a bonding of intent of unity as never before manifested in the National Park.  The magic of this magical freedom night heralds and forecasts fructification of the dreams and aspirations of our departed freedom fighters and our ancestors who suffered and sacrificed much to enable us this nationhood.
A country’s flag fluttering aloft is indicative of many things, not least a nation resolute in its intentions to work diligently in its present to build its future of prosperity upon the foundations laid in its past by ancestral sufferings and strivings.
The pyrotechnic display splintered the night-sky as Guyanese wended their way home, the Golden Arrowhead fluttering aloft.