Allan, Being Frank

Even though many persons behind the promotional scene and the production of the music are matured, very adult individuals, many of us past sixty/seventy cannot keep up with today’s version…

In two previous – End of the Year/New Year pieces I touched on the significance, indeed almost the vital life-line, of REMITTANCES from Guyanese citizens domiciled overseas, sent back to…

Upon the assumption of Republican status in February 1970, when Guyana replaced the Queen of England with a Guyanese President to be Head of State, the four-year old Independent nation…

Just a brief departure and respite for TRAKKER readers – from the “serious” issues, the politics, the economics, the crime and the disasters. Here instead – in a few paragraphs…

Oh that much longed-for, or sought-after condition, or status. My old Oxford provides fourteen definitions for the noun (and verb) that is power! From “ability to do or act”, to…

Just recently I explored the phenomenon of REMITTANCES, especially actual cash transfers, in terms of both the vital, necessary assistance these gifts bring to needy families still in countries of…

I wish all TRAKKER readers and fans good health, peace and progress for 2012. And I wish that the new Guyana government would copy a page from the Alliance For…

(ADAPTED From a version by Sis Rose Magdalene) The CARIBS of Guyana never lived on earth’s land, long, long long ago.  They lived in a place way up in the…

From Indian-Guyanese folklore come the tales of the Living Dead.  This is a relatively little-known folk-being, or better described as a FOLK-SPIRIT, amongst the other more popular folk-figures in the…

So we have ourselves reminded of the well-known “reason for the season” -the BIRTH of the Christ Child to a rather mis-matched couple – matured carpenter Joseph and Virgin Teenager,…