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Cacique Awards ... ready to go on

Reviewed by Sateesh Maharaj • Express 07 August 2005

"The Show Must Go On" is the theme for the 16th annual Cacique Awards scheduled for August 23 at Queen's Hall, St Ann's.This year the Special Awardees are Paloma Mohammed for the Caribbean Award, Efebo Wilkinson for the Vanguard Award and Austin Forsyth for the Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Lifetime achievement award for Forsyth

Veteran theatre personality Julien Austin Forsyth is to be presented with the prestigious lifetime achievement award at the 2005 edition of the Cacique Awards, entitled "De show must go on" scheduled for August 23 at Queen's Hall, St Ann's.

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Caribbean Lady of the Arts - Paloma Mohammed

Sunday, August 21st 2005When playwright Paloma Mohammed ascends the stage at Tuesday's gala Cacique Awards ceremony, it will be far from the first time the 36-year-old Guyanese has received a major award. To mention just a few of Mohammed's accolades, she's won the Guyana Prize for drama three times. When she first won, she was the youngest person to do so.

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Man of the Arts - Lester Efebo Wilkinson

Lester Efebo Wilkinson is a poet, playwright, stage director, dramaturge, workshop facilitator and lecturer in Theatre Arts at the Centre for Creative and Festival Arts at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine. He has worked in children's theatre as well as on the adult stage and in the late 1970's wrote three children's plays, which he staged with students of the Malabar Roman Catholic School in Arima as his cast members.

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A jab at Carnival

Having copped four Cacique awards including Most Outstanding Production, many salivated in anticipation of the next presentation. The wait is over. This year the notorious Jab Jab is the centrepiece of the 3Canal vibe ... entitled Jab in de Box.

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