THE Ministry of Culture’s Mashramani Secretariat, in keeping with its thrust to diversify the Mashramani Festival, is hosting a number of additional activities, such as Republic Lectures, Literacy Workshops, a Child Art competition, as well as debates and Quizzes throughout the 10 administrative regions. One such event was held last Friday on the West Coast of Berbice, where noted writer and amateur folklorist, Allan A. Fenty, engaged students drawn from schools at Fort Wellington and Bush Lot in talk on Guyana’s rich folk heritage.