HARRY BISSOON

  BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS Harry Bissoon We live in times of unending trouble, tribulations, and uncharted waters, as we negotiate with nature, the universe, and the  unseen spirituality that binds, or unbinds us, with unbreakable threads that are made with beliefs, traditions, and years of learned behavior. History, recorded, and unrecorded, is replete with brutal wars, famine, sicknesses, and cases of ethnic cleansing, going back to eons, and eons of our development as human beings. We have been defeated, humiliated, and devastated by purges, gore, and unseen viruses, but we were able to rise above these attacks and sicknesses, and continue to chart our way forward. Bridges of spirituality, technology, and human endeavors, have been constructed, allowing us to bypass, and cross over these never-ending storms that follow in our footsteps, and have become wedded to our fragile existence.  Covid-19, the latest scourge of humanity, is marching on, the intensity and speed...

GUYANA DAY - A REVIEW  My weekend Column, 3/07/2020 See all my blogs at letstalkwithharrybissoon.blogspot.com  𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑷𝒂𝒖𝒍 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒖𝒚𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝑫𝒂𝒚 2008 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒔𝒆𝒆 The Guyana Day Committee has finally got it.  Almost. At first Auntie Comsee seemed like a scribe from an earlier era: an elegant “mouth-a-preckay” with a penchant for street “gaff;” she writes with a talking pen and a vocabulary that you may never be able to explore in the encyclopedia. Yet she was very much a woman of the hour. For many baby boomers, Auntie Comsee has been long gone and forgotten since the dog days of the seventies.  Many believed that she died, buried and resurrected and is now on the right hand side of the throne of the Lord.  It has been decades since that fable flourished. So it was striking when she materialized at the York Center for the Performing Arts, radiating good cheer in her tr...

GUYANA DAY- A REVIEW(Part 2) by Mohamed(Aftab)Karimullah, GUYANA DAY NEW YORK COMMITTEE  Guyana Day 2008 Presentation Lunch Last Saturday June 21at the Flavor of India restaurant in Floral Park, Queens, NY, the Guyana Day Committee headed by Harry Bissoon thanked the Artists, sponsors and the media for contribution to one of the most satisfying and successful presentation of Guyanese folk art performances. Mr. Bissoon, a recent honoree at City Hall, reminded the audience of around 50, mostly participants at the 8th annual Guyana Day Event to mark Guyana’s 42nd Independence anniversary held at York College, Jamaica on May 18th, of the need for harmony among the different peoples of Guyana. Flanked by Committee members - Chuck Mohan, Mel Carpen, Harald Surajnarine, Loncey Conyers, Aftab Karimullah, and Jeany Persaud in the audience – the Artists were presented with Citations from the New York City Council. Councilman Kendall Stewart, in the aptly named Caribbean Month, embraced the v...