Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Martin Carter

Born: June 7, 1927
Died: December 13, 1997 (aged 70)
Bio: Martin Wylde Carter was a Guyanese poet and political activist. Widely regarded as the greatest Guyanese poet, and one of the most important poets of the Caribbean region, Carter is best known for his poems of protest, resistance and revolution.
Known for:
- University of Hunger
- Poems of succession (1977)
- Poems of resistance from British Guiana (1954)