.jpg)
As the private and public sectors continue to encourage and support entertainment/cultural events and programmes for the benefit of the Guyanese people, it would seem as if there are some critics among us who remain obsessed with attacking efforts by the government.
Take, for instance, the report yesterday (Sat) in another section of the local print media that unnamed “women’s rights groups and activists” have “condemned government’s support” of the coming Chris Brown concert” .
Further, that this suggests the government “is not serious about effectively addressing the increase in domestic violence when it supports a man who has been convicted of battering his partner…”
How mean can some critics of the government be, even as they cleverly, or cowardly, shelter their identities, with media cooperation, to make a quantum leap from rightly condemning any form of physical violence and abuse of women, to irresponsibly extending their views to blaming the government for the coming visit to Guyana by the controversial American rockstar for his scheduled Boxing Day “Unforgettable 2” concert.
Chris Brown’s forthcoming concert is being arranged at a time when he and the very beautiful and wealthy woman he was convicted of “battering”– the international singing celebrity, ‘Rihanna’, of Guyanese/Barbadian parentage–are once again locked in “loving arms”, and very much ignoring their critics.
They are living their lives by choice and Brown’s impending business entertainment visit to Guyana should not be construed as an endorsement of any kind of domestic violence. Such an assertion is awfully crude and disgusting.
In contrast , other coming scheduled major entertainment events include this coming Saturday’s “Chutney vs Soca Showdown” at the Wales Community Centre Ground. Featuring some of the best known names in soca and chutney singing from Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and the diaspora in Canada, the event is wholly sponsored by Banks DIH Ltd.
But the biggest national event identified with the Christmas season, the annual “Main Big Lime”, promises to be even bigger and better this year, according to a statement yesterday by acting Tourism, Industry and Commerce Minister Irfaan Ali.
What is envisaged, according to the minister, is a three-day “family-oriented” menu of entertainment activities with the launch of a “Christmas Village” on Main Street.
The details being worked out in collaborative efforts by the government and private sector entities, would include a special focus on entertainment for children.
Inaugurated in 1999, the “Main Big Lime” has significantly progressed into a major “must-do” entertainment/cultural event that coincides with the Christmas season when Guyanese and other West Indians from the Caribbean diaspora in the USA, Canada and Britain descend home for the holidays.
Take, for instance, the report yesterday (Sat) in another section of the local print media that unnamed “women’s rights groups and activists” have “condemned government’s support” of the coming Chris Brown concert” .
Further, that this suggests the government “is not serious about effectively addressing the increase in domestic violence when it supports a man who has been convicted of battering his partner…”
How mean can some critics of the government be, even as they cleverly, or cowardly, shelter their identities, with media cooperation, to make a quantum leap from rightly condemning any form of physical violence and abuse of women, to irresponsibly extending their views to blaming the government for the coming visit to Guyana by the controversial American rockstar for his scheduled Boxing Day “Unforgettable 2” concert.
Chris Brown’s forthcoming concert is being arranged at a time when he and the very beautiful and wealthy woman he was convicted of “battering”– the international singing celebrity, ‘Rihanna’, of Guyanese/Barbadian parentage–are once again locked in “loving arms”, and very much ignoring their critics.
They are living their lives by choice and Brown’s impending business entertainment visit to Guyana should not be construed as an endorsement of any kind of domestic violence. Such an assertion is awfully crude and disgusting.
In contrast , other coming scheduled major entertainment events include this coming Saturday’s “Chutney vs Soca Showdown” at the Wales Community Centre Ground. Featuring some of the best known names in soca and chutney singing from Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and the diaspora in Canada, the event is wholly sponsored by Banks DIH Ltd.
But the biggest national event identified with the Christmas season, the annual “Main Big Lime”, promises to be even bigger and better this year, according to a statement yesterday by acting Tourism, Industry and Commerce Minister Irfaan Ali.
What is envisaged, according to the minister, is a three-day “family-oriented” menu of entertainment activities with the launch of a “Christmas Village” on Main Street.
The details being worked out in collaborative efforts by the government and private sector entities, would include a special focus on entertainment for children.
Inaugurated in 1999, the “Main Big Lime” has significantly progressed into a major “must-do” entertainment/cultural event that coincides with the Christmas season when Guyanese and other West Indians from the Caribbean diaspora in the USA, Canada and Britain descend home for the holidays.
