Righting and Re-writing History(Extract of an interview with Ms. Beryl Adams-Haynes, author of Plaisance: From Emancipation to Independence and Beyond, Georgetown, Guyana, July 2010)PP:  OUR HISTORY was first recorded

THE DEBATE was on. I thought it was dangerous to go; the others figured we should ignore all the ghost stories and go get the fruits. Usually, nobody ventured

THE MOST important art form communicating sexuality, which succeeded the visual arts of drawing, painting, and sculpture, is creative writing: That is, poetry, and fiction in the form of

Despite poor response…THE SPIRIT of Africanism was alive and well in the village of Vergenoegen, on the East Bank Essequibo last Saturday evening (Emancipation Eve) as scores of residents

(A look at some of the stories that made the news ‘back-in-the-day’ with CLIFFORD STANLEY)Guiana’s reluctant hangmanSITTING in an old armchair at his home at Vreed-en-Hoop across the Demerara

CAT FOOT soft, but he ah scratch bad!Ignatius, watch out for Shelley! This is a case of ‘Tricky & Trahney’! While Devine discusses her sexual feelings with Nurse Lowe,

IN 1967, a judge led a Demerara Assize jury to believe that the unsworn evidence of a nine-year-old girl could corroborate the sworn testimony of her mother that she