http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/02/12/guyana-carifesta-comes-home/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:52:24 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/02/12/guyana-carifesta-comes-home/comment-page-1/#comment-1501786 CARIFESTA X « Scavella’s Blogsphere Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:52:15 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/02/12/guyana-carifesta-comes-home/#comment-1501786 [...] Back then, too, the next festival was supposed to be held in The Bahamas, i.e. home.  But a general election intervened, and what can happen in Caribbean nations happened — the new administration reviewed and reconsidered the commitments made by the previous administration, and decided that it couldn’t cope with CARIFESTA X in Nassau in 2008.  So we dropped the festival and Guyana picked it up. [...] [...] Back then, too, the next festival was supposed to be held in The Bahamas, i.e. home.  But a general election intervened, and what can happen in Caribbean nations happened — the new administration reviewed and reconsidered the commitments made by the previous administration, and decided that it couldn’t cope with CARIFESTA X in Nassau in 2008.  So we dropped the festival and Guyana picked it up. [...]

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