Paying tribute to Michael Gilkes: So Many Skins
PRESENTED BY MORAY HOUSE TRUST
Paying tribute to the late Michael Gilkes, Ken Corsbie hailed ‘the volume and range of his work [and] his accumulated productivity over a lifetime as a poet, scholar, playwright, theatre practitioner and actor.’ To meet Michael was to sense immediately that he was a man of ‘many skins’, able to shed light effortlessly on Guyanese poetry, literature, art, plays and music and to add a regional and/or an international perspective. Other scholars might acquire a similar depth of knowledge about Wilson Harris or Edgar Mittelholzer or Denis Williams or some other local luminary. Few could corral them into a cast to populate the canvas of our complex culture with Michael’s facility.
GUYANA: Top 10 most common surnames in Guyana | Loop Caribbean News
Reposted here in Guyanese Online – September 24, 2021
Have you ever wondered what is the most common surname in Guyana? How about how many other people in the world share the same last name with you and in what countries?
According to Forebears.io, a genealogy portal that is geographically indexed and cross-references a directory of sources for family research history, Guyana has 28,594 unique surnames.
We have compiled a list of the top 10 most common surnames found in Guyana:
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