Essequibo Region: Caribana Festival

August Long Weekend Dept: We have enough people, said Dessie Fanfair, chief coordinator of The John/Rimple Family Reunion TwentyTen, sounding kinda relieved that just 325 of nearly 400 invitees confirmed for the July 29-Aug. 2 affair, according to The Star. For many GTA residents of Caribbean descent, The Scotiabank Caribana Festival is the one time they can count on visits from out-of-town friends and relatives. Loved ones who won't come here at Christmas too cold or Easter still too cold will plan their vacation around the jump-up that marks our August long weekend and when a family gathering has a tagline, celebrity quotient and the need to close its guest list three weeks before the event, you know its something special. The Ajax resident helms a 14-person committee that organized the assembly of the descendants of her maternal grandparents, carpenter Alfred Theopholous John and his wife Mary nee Rimple , who raised nine children in Guyana's Essequibo region. As reported in the news.
@t caribbean descent, maternal grandparents