By Reverend Patricia Sheerattan-Bisnauth
(Guyana Presbyterian aChurch, Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association)
Almost every society faces issues of discrimination to varying degrees, where people reject others because of differences and where various forms of domination and control affect relationships – whether it is men over women, leaders over followers, large nations over small ones or in different forms of gender/sexual orientation, age/race/tribe/caste/class supremacy.
By Alessandra Hereman
Alessandra Hereman is a young transgender woman who is studying at the University of Guyana
“It is not our differences that divide us.
By Ric Couchman
Ric Couchman was born in Georgetown, Guyana where he lived for 24 years before leaving for Jamaica to pursue a degree in Theological studies.
By D. Alissa Trotz
D. Alissa Trotz is editor of the
In the Diaspora Column
This Wednesday May 23rd, Professor Ivelaw Griffith, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Guyana (UG), will be hosting a solemn ceremony at the George Walcott Lecture Theatre in memory of Harold ‘Harry’ Drayton, who died in March of this year.
Tamirand De Lisser, Hubert Devonish, Rhonda Jeffrey and Charlene Wilkinson
Tamirand Nnena De Lisser is a Lecturer of Linguistics at the University of Guyana.
By Charlene Wilkinson
Charlene Wilkinson is a lecturer in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies at the University of Guyana and a founder member of the Guyanese Languages Unit.
By Nicole Burrowes
Nicole Burrowes is an Assistant Professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas, Austin.
Gemma Robinson teaches at the University of Stirling, Scotland. She is researching Wilson Harris’s poetry, and is the editor of University of Hunger: Collected Poems and Selected Prose of Martin Carter (Bloodaxe).
By Kristina Hinds
Dr. Kristina Hinds is a lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.
By Mark Schuller
Mark Schuller is Associate Professor of Anthropology and NGO Leadership Development at Northern Illinois University and affiliate at the Faculté d’Ethnologie, l’Université d’État d’Haïti.
By Dhanaiswary Jaganauth
Dhanaiswary Jaganauth is a lecturer at the University of Guyana
World Mother Language Day has been celebrated worldwide every February 21 for nearly twenty years now. This