In The Diaspora

By Lear Matthews Lear Matthews is professor, State University of New York, Empire State College.

By Carolyn Cooper Carolyn Cooper, PhD, is a specialist on culture and development.

By Ron Fanfair Ron Fanfair is a freelance writer/photographer for Share (sharenews.com) and ronfanfair.com.

By Eusi Kwayana Reports of governmental and public shortcomings in Guyana are not many, but are important. 

By Eusi Kwayana A longer version of this tribute was first carried on Pambazuka.org on June 15, 2019.

By Andaiye Note by Alissa Trotz, Diaspora Column Editor: On Friday May 31, Guyanese social activist Andaiye died.

By Roberta Clarke Roberta Clarke is a human rights and social justice activist.

By Medino Felician Abraham SJ and Joel Thompson SJ Medino Felician Abraham SJ works in South Rupununi and holds an MSc in Society and Frontier from the Federal University, Roraima Brazil.

By Harry Hergash                                                                      Harry Hergash, a graduate of the University of Guyana, taught at the Annandale Government Secondary from 1964 to 1969.  

By Dr. Nastassia Rambarran Dr. Nastassia Rambarran is a Guyanese Public Health Consultant, Researcher and Physician living in Barbados.

By Joan French Joan French, who is from Jamaica, has long been involved in activism for women’s socio-cultural and political progress.

By Diana Abraham Diana Abraham is a member of the Guyanese diaspora with publications in fields relating to transnational migration, identity and belonging An earlier diaspora column by Deborah Hamilton (January 24th) prompted me to reflect on the similarities between her teaching experiences and those of the teachers who participated in doctoral research I undertook in Guyana eight years ago.

By Kesaundra Alves Kesaundra Alves is an attorney-at-law who specializes in public health law in Guyana and the Caribbean region.

By Raffique Shah Raffique Shah has offered political commentary for several Trinidadian newspapers since the 1980s, and now writes a weekly column for the Trinidad Express.

By Eusi Kwayana Is there any doubt that political leadership in Guyana as in other countries like Venezuela, Britain, India, Pakistan, Congo and Nigeria needs to be born again?

From Moses Bhagwan From 1957, Moses Bhagwan became active in Guyanese public life and liberation politics through many organizations, including the People’s Progressive Party, the Progressive Youth Organization, The Success Movement, the Indian Political Revolutionary Associates, the Working People’s Alliance and the WPA Overseas Associates.

By Carolyn Cooper Carolyn Cooper is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.  

By Phil Miller Phil Miller is a British investigative journalist based in London.

By Lotus                                                                                                     Founded by Preity Kumar, Suzanne Narain, and Talisha Ramsaroop, Lotus is a grassroots organization in Toronto, Canada which focuses on building social connections, educational initiatives, and empowering the lives of Indo-Caribbean women.

By Roberta Clarke, Marsha Hinds and Gabrielle Hosein This week’s column offers three responses to Farmer Nappy’s Hookin’ Meh 2019 soca hit that is taking the carnival season by storm.

By Raffique Shah As a 24 year old lieutenant in the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment during the Black Power riots of the 1970s, Raffique Shah led a mutiny to deny the government use of military against the mass movement.

By Danuta Radzik, Andaiye, Honor Ford-Smithand D. Alissa Trotz If you would like to support this statement, please add your name at the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOaYK7DrMl1wTADDzWRqC9rSN34640noU-zOiMmZDxEhJLdA/viewform?usp=sf_link  We the undersigned  Call on all parties to guarantee that the Caribbean in all its diversity be actively promoted as a collective zone of peace in which principles and practices of respectful co-existence are adhered to.

By Phil Miller Phil Miller is a British investigative journalist based in London.

By Ronald Cummings Ronald Cummings teaches Caribbean literature  in the Department of English at B rock University, Canada.

By Deborah Hamilton Deborah Hamilton worked for several years as a teacher at Queen’s College before moving to Canada, where she now teaches.

By D. Alissa Trotz D. Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In the Diaspora Column A few weeks after the 2011 elections that delivered a minority PPP government, the Amerindian People’s Association, Church Women United, Commonground, Guyana Human Rights Association, Guyana Society for the Blind, Rights of Children and Red Thread issued a statement in which they noted that the “margins of victory are sufficiently small as to impose a degree of bi-partisanship and negotiated politics, replacing the rubber-stamp winner-take-all approach which has characterised Guyanese politics for too long.

By Ulric Trotz Ulric Trotz is the Deputy Director & Science Adviser, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belmopan, Belize Two years ago in Paris, at the Conference Of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC), the global community concluded the historic Paris Agreement, which was hailed at the time as the platform for serious global action to address the existential risks engendered by climate change.

This is an edited version of a talk given by Dr Arif Bulkan at a Public Commemorative Lecture held on November 21, 2018 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the University of Guyana, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

By  Eintou Springer Eintou Springer is a Trinidad born poet, storyteller, actor and retired  Librarian with over forty years of cultural work throughout the Caribbean.

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.

By The Caribbean Voice and Voices Against Violence Janet (name changed to protect identity) is a very strong, college-educated woman who, at the request of her husband, gave up her job to stay at home after marriage.

By Peter Wickham Peter W. Wickham (peter.w.wickham@gmail.com) is a political consultant and a director of Caribbean Development Research Services (CADRES).

Ryan Persadie is a doctoral student in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.

Dhanaiswary Jaganauth (Lecturer at the University of Guyana) Sunday, October 28, 2018 was International Creole Day.

By: Kevin Edmonds Kevin Edmonds hails from the Caribbean, and is a graduate student at the University of Toronto and a member of the Caribbean Solidarity Network.

By Suzanne Narain Suzanne Narain is a community activist in the Jane-Finch area of Toronto where she grew up, the child of Guyanese immigrants.

By Shamette Hepburn Shamette Hepburn is a Caribbean national and an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, York University, Canada.

By Lincoln Lewis Lincoln Lewis brings more than three decades of local, regional and international trade union experience.

By Felician Medino Abraham Felician Medino Abraham is from Santa Rosa Moruca. He holds a Masters in Society and Frontier from the Federal University of Roraima UFRR, Brazil in 2017, where he produced a study on the Wapichans’ experience of formal education.

While other politicians glossed over the island’s problems, Trump lays colonialism’s cruelty bare.

By Lincoln Lewis Lincoln Lewis brings more than three decades of local, regional and international trade union experience.

By Laura George, Wazir Mohamed, Marcello Mello, and Medino Abraham Laura George is the Governance & Rights Coordinator for the Amerindian Peoples Association.

By Lear Matthews Lear Matthews is professor, State University of New York, Empire State College.

By G. J. Giddings Dr. Jahwara Giddings is Professor of History at Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio Food is so central to human life and culture that a West African proverb maintains that “There is no god quite like our stomach, as we must make sacrifices to it every day!” In fact, every culture is identified by, among other means, a distinctive cuisine and thus through food tells of its unique adaptation to the environment.

By Roberta Clarke Roberta Clarke is a human rights and social justice activist.

By Jade Nixon Jade Nixon is a graduate student at the University of Toronto.

By Tyrone Hall Tyrone Hall is a Caribbean national with nearly a decade of experience managing some of the region’s leading environmental initiatives.

Angel (Seon) Fraser is a litigant in the challenge to the cross-dressing law of Guyana.

By Rae Wiltshire (Pheches (Joseph) Fraser is a litigant in the challenge to the cross-dressing law of Guyana.

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.