FAMOUS Guyanese playwright and author, Michael Gilkes has died. Reports are that Gilkes, who lived in the United Kingdom, contracted the coronavirus and died of complications in London. He was 87. Gilkes’ last major project here was the movie “Maira and the Jaguar People”, a film which was set in the Rupununi in 2016. The
Guyanese playwright Michael Gilkes dies from COVID-19 complications

