This article was written today and read at a Read My World 2014 event in Amsterdam which discussed Tourism as a new colonial power. For Stefan. Though the time is dark, dark like Martin’s time, my love, there is still hope. There is always hope. When I was 9 or 10 my primary school teacher gave us an assignment on eco-tourism. What was eco-tourism she … Continue reading The Shadow of a Dream – Tourism in Guyana

(This story won first prize in the prose section of the Inaugural Walter Rodney Foundation Creative Writing Competition. Subraj Singh, a University of Guyana student and budding writer, says the story’s setting is intentionally ambiguous. “It can be set in Guyana’s past, present, or future,” Singh told the audience at an award ceremony on May 14, 2014 in the Education Lecture Theatre, University of Guyana, … Continue reading Rebelle – A Story by Subraj Singh