D. Alissa Trotz

Guyana is in a most profound crisis. This crisis has been in the making for over 50 years – ever since the declaration of independence that came on the heels of the collapse of a multiracial anticolonial movement, the intervention of the joined imperialist forces of the UK and US and the convulsive coastal racial disturbances of the 1960s that delivered almost unshakeable constituencies of African and Indian Guyanese to the two major political parties in Guyana.

By Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora column Election season in Guyana has always been that time that rolls around, every couple of years, when neighbourliness can get suspended and tensions rise, when political parties set out to demonstrate why they are the best thing since sliced bread, and why their main political opponent is the absolute worst choice.

Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In The Diaspora Column On Tuesday 13th November 2018, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Guyana’s final court of appeal, struck down a law that was first passed in Guyana in 1893.

I arrived in Havana, Cuba, on the evening of Sunday, December 4.

Alissa Trotz teaches at the University of Toronto and is the editor of the In the Diaspora column How many times have we seen the coat of arms without really understanding what it stands for?

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Bio: Krystal Ghisyawan is currently a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad.

By D. Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column.

By D. Alissa Trotz   Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In the Diaspora Column   According to a daily roundup of news from the Dominican Republic, on November 4th, in a 59-page ruling (Judgment 256-14), the Constitutional Court “annulled the country’s participation in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR)…this means that none of the cases ruled upon by the IACtHR are [sic] valid for application in the Dominican Republic.

By D. Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In the Diaspora Column   It is three weeks since the public learned, via a report first carried in Kaieteur News, of 23 year old Colwyn Harding’s hospitalization with severe internal injuries that were allegedly caused by police savagery.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column Editor’s Note:  November 25 is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column This column is dedicated to the memory of Dwayne Jones, murdered in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in July of this year.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column Last Saturday, October 6th, marked the 36th anniversary of the Cubana air disaster in 1976.

Next week’s column will pay tribute to the people of Linden.

It is now twelve days since the first of five days of community protest in Linden, when teargas and live rounds were fired into crowds of unarmed women, children and men, killing three men and injuring 20.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column Today’s column, written in response to the dangerous and hateful editorial (the Roman Catholic Church was right to call it reckless) that appeared in the July 2nd edition of the Guyana Chronicle with the title “Opposition rampages to sow disunity in the country,” and which sought to portray African-Guyanese as pathologically violent with an ingrained hatred of Indian-Guyanese and mindlessly manipulated by opposition politicians (cannon fodder was the term used), has been one of the more difficult columns I have had to write in recent years.

Professor Neil Lancelot Whitehead, 3/19/56 – 3/22/2012- born Harrow, London died peacefully surrounded by family in Madison, Wisconsin – he was 56 years old.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora column. Barbadian writer George Lamming has written compellingly of the limits of Westminster style democracy in the Caribbean, a system he sees as reducing the populace “to the dormant and abused status of electoral fodder [where] every five years, they become visible and decisive in a tribal power game which concludes with their absence from any serious consultation about their future.”

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column Thanks to Camille Turner, mervin Jarman, Matt Price, Francesca da Rimini and Wayne Motayne for sending such an abundance of information and inspiration as I developed this column.

Alissa Trotz is the editor of the In the Diaspora column.