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The Gospel According to Wilson Harris
By Raymond RamcharitarRaymond Ramcharitar is a Trinidadian journalist.
Not Even One Token Woman!
Carolyn Cooper is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
Reporting Live From the Land of Plenty
By Kevin de SilvaKevin De Silva is a second generation Guyanese-Canadian, and a student of Political Science and Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto.
D-Day in Cairo: Decolonizing Democracy
Jens Hanssen is Associate Professor of Middle East History at the University of Toronto.
Difficult Anniversaries: Lusignan and Bartica
By Alissa TrotzAlissa Trotz is editor of the Diaspora ColumnWe have just commemorated the third anniversary of the brutal and inhuman assault on the village of Lusignan that ended with the slaughter of eleven persons, five of them children.
The Playboy and the Priest: Duvalier, Aristide and Haitian Democracy
Melanie Newton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, CanadaBy Melanie Newton… he governed as if he felt predestined to never die… Gabriel García Marquéz, The Autumn of the Patriarch, 1975A week ago, Haitians the world over were stunned when former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier returned to Haiti after 25 years of comfortable political asylum in France.
Playing Politics with People’s Lives: Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark
Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora column In their descriptions of Georgetown, older Guyanese in particular talk about the negative stereotypes associated with living or coming from the area known as ‘south of the burial ground’.
The International Community and Haiti a Year Later: The Failure of an Imperial Trusteeship
Alex Dupuy, a native of Haiti, is a professor of sociology at Wesleyan University and the author most recently of “The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Inter-national Community, and Haiti.
Power, Politics, and Poverty – The PPP after Jagan
By Cary FraserCary Fraser is a regular contributor to the Trinidad and Tobago Review and writes on international relations in the Middle East, American foreign policy, and Caribbean history.
Child labour and the development of women – Guyana
By Iman KhanIman Khan is a recent graduate of the York University BA (Hons) programme in Political Science and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Child labour and the development of women – Guyana
By Iman KhanIman Khan is a recent graduate of the York University BA (Hons) programme in Political Science and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Cuba’s Economic Paradigm Shift: A Work in Progress
By Norman Girvan and Alissa TrotzAlissa Trotz is editor of the Diaspora column.
Derek Walcott in Toronto: Memory, Imagination and the Consolation of Caliban
Brendan de Caires lives in Toronto.
A Comprehensive Approach to deal with the Increasing Traffic Fatalities in Guyana
By Harry HergashHarry Hergash, a graduate of the University of Guyana, taught at the Annandale Government Secondary from 1964 to 1969.
Remembering Edgar Mittelholzer Part II
By Colin RickardsColin Rickards is an author, journalist, broadcaster and Caribbeanist with long connections to Guyana and its authors.