In The Diaspora

View of exhibition - Protests and Pedagogy: Archival Afterlives and the Sir George Williams University Affair currently on display at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
View of exhibition – Protests and Pedagogy: Archival Afterlives and the Sir George Williams University Affair currently on display at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Lessons from the 1960s: Reflections on The Protests and Disregard Collective and the work of public memory and Disregard

The Protests and Pedagogy Collective was formed in 2018 to organize a series of commemorative events for the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Sir George Williams University Protest.

Why is CARICOM Betraying Haiti on Behalf of the U.S.?

by Jemima Pierre Jemima Pierre, Ph.D., is a Haitian-born Professor at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia and Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg. 

Post-graduate course in Climate Change

By Ulric O’D Trotz Now retired,  Ulric (Neville) Trotz was formerly the Deputy Director & Science Adviser, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belmopan, Belize   Recently the  Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St.

CARICOM Facilitation in the Guyana-Venezuela Border Controversy

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana  Previously UN Under-Secretary-General Guyana has achieved a notable gain in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which unanimously held on 1 December that “pending a final decision in the case, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela shall refrain from taking any action which would modify the situation that currently prevails in the territory in dispute, whereby the Cooperative Republic of Guyana administers and exercises control over that area.”

Building for the future in Guyana

By Ulric O’D Trotz Now retired,  Ulric (Neville) Trotz was formerly the Deputy Director & Science Adviser, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belmopan, Belize  As Guyana invests  in an aggressive program of infrastructure development in its inhabited coastal zone, it is incumbent on all involved to ensure that the proposed  interventions have minimal or no adverse environmental impacts on the prevailing environment and that they are sustainable and can withstand future environmental changes.

A scene from A Poem for Rabia with Virgilia Griffith and Nikki Shaffeeullah. Photography: Cylla Von Tiedemann

A Poem for Rabia: Inter-Generational Diasporic Crossings

By Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In the Diaspora column The Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, Canada, which describes its mission as one of offering a space “to create, develop and produce new plays to provide the conditions for new work to thrive,” is currently home to the world premiere of the deeply moving debut play, A Poem for Rabia, in co-production with Nightwood Theatre and Undercurrent Creations.

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