Bridgetown.
Barbadian novelist, poet and short storywriter George Lamming thinks the Caribbean is in crisis speaking at the University of the West Indies earlier this week, the prominent intellecutal said:
" This thing we call the Caribbean, is an unfinished project and where are now, it seems to me, is still at the scaffolding of that project. No one has any ideal what it will be in another 50 or a 100 years but it is in its deepest crisis at the moment and I do not think this will be its last chapter".
Lamming expressed concerns over the disjointedness among Caribbean neighours in the face of the knowledge that we are stronger as a unit.
"We find ourselves like a people who do not the house we live in. We have a familiarity with the rooms in that house where there is a room for Trinidad, Jamaica Guyana and so on, but we do not know how these rooms relate to each other; nor do we have any understanding that the connectivity of these room constitutes that house, yet we are roaming about in that house without knowing it", Lamming said.
He was speaking at the second George Lamming Distinguished Lecture, held at the Walcott Warner Theatre, at the Creative Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination.
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