by Nalini Mohabir
Nalini Mohabir is a member of the Guyanese diaspora, and an associate professor in the department of geography, planning and environment at Concordia University in Montreal.
By Vidya Kissoon
Vidyaratha Kissoon is involved in the work for gender equality
Red Thread, the Breadfruit Collective, Guyana Trans United, SASOD and the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition joined with the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies Rights Advocacy Project (U-RAP), to host a conversation ‘Living Good 2’ on 19 August, 2022.
By Oneka LaBennett
Oneka LaBennett is an associate professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California.
By SASOD Guyana’s Human Rights Programme
Jennifer Anderson is a Legal Intern working with SASOD Guyana through the Canadian Bar Association’s Young Lawyers International Programme, supported by Global Affairs Canada.
By Michael Witter
Michael Witter is a Jamaican economist and committed regionalist, and former lecturer at the Mona, Jamaica Campus of the University of the West Indies
Editor’s Note: The Caribbean has one of the highest net food import bills in the world, an issue that has been identified as a priority area for Caricom, with Guyanese President Irfaan Ali the most prominent advocate for local and regional food security, most recently in his address to Caricom Heads in Paramaribo that set a target for the region to decrease its current volume of food imports by 25% by 2025.
By Richard Drayton
(Richard Drayton, born in Guyana and also a citizen of Barbados, is a Professor of Imperial and Global History at King’s College London)
With the death of George Lamming on June 4 (he would have been 95 today, June 8), we lost our last living connection to the generation who laid the spiritual foundations for Caribbean independence.
Marsha Hinds
Marsha Hinds is a post doctoral fellow in Gender Studies at the University of Guelph, the immediate past president of the National Organization of Women of Barbados and the co-founder of Operation Safe Space.
By Ulric O’D Trotz
Now retired, Ulric (Neville) Trotz was formerly the Deputy Director & Science Adviser, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belmopan, Belize
In a Reuters article in the Stabroek News in their publication of April 26th , 2022, entitled “Sand crisis looms as world population surges, U.N.