The Guyana government says it will be collaborating with the Barbados-based Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) on a public awareness

Plans are progressing for Guyana’s hosting of the Region’s largest cultural show, the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) X which will be held form August 22 to 31 2008.
Highpoint of the plans were outlined by Minister of Culture Youth and Sport Dr. Frank Anthony today during a briefing at the CARIFESTA Secretariat on Middle Street. [...]

Georgetown, GINA, December 4, 2007
The formation of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) and its 2008 hosting in Guyana will be some of the exciting features found in a new magazine soon to be published.
This was recently revealed by Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr. Frank Anthony as part of the public relations campaign [...]

- collection from Guyana Prize for Literature to be exhibited
Georgetown, GINA, December 3, 2007
The Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) X which will be held in Guyana from August 22 to 31, 2008 will be another platform for the promotion of the work of local writers who are given recognition through the Guyana Prize for Literature.

Carifesta is for and about the people of this region; the ‘folk’ who remain the foundation and the driving forces of our collective nations. These are the unsung ones, who remember the solid values, the respect, the honesty and the simplicity. They make it their purpose, their raison d’etre to behave as true elders do, [...]