GUYANA – LATEST NEWS – 28 May 2016 – Kaieteur News
(see other News sources at the end of this entry)
- Walkout from D’Urban Park…Opposition MPs created conditions to embarrass state—Minister Henry
- Incident-free 50th anniversary celebrations
- Guyanese in Canada hoist the Golden Arrowhead
- Essequibo celebrates Guyana’s 50th anniversary
- Rupert Craig’s WW1 sword presented to Granger
- Forensic audit on NFMU…Auditors recommend strict measures to improve frail financial systems
- Survey to determine official unemployment rate in 2017
- Obama’s rep. talks oil with Nagamootoo
- Two weeks before 2015 elections…Valmiki Singh took $9.6M in annual leave payment –Forensic audit
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THE TRADEWINDS FIFTIETH – by Dave Martins + video
Dave Martins and The Tradewinds – May 15, 2016
THE TRADEWINDS FIFTIETH by Dave Martins- Credits Stabroek News,
Guyana 50th Anniversary Logo
Here’s a coincidence: in 2016, as Guyana reaches 50 years as an independent country, the Tradewinds band is also 50 years old. The two things are not connected. It just happened to coincide that I was looking to start a band to play primarily Caribbean music, featuring my own songs, and that finally happened in 1966 in Toronto where I had been living for about 10 years.
In fact, I didn’t even realize the coincidence until about six months ago, looking at some plans for the Jubilee celebration, that it hit me.
Looking back to the beginnings of the band, with two Trinidad musicians, Glen Sorzano and Kelvin Ceballo, who had migrated to Canada about the same time as I, I had been playing music professionally, with my earlier band The Debonairs, doing a variety of music. Continue reading →
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