In The Diaspora

By Reginald Dumas Reginald Dumas is a retired Ambassador and Head of the Public Service of Trinidad and Tobago.

By Sherlina Nageer  Sherlina Nageer is a Guyanese feminist, activist, educator, and writer who pens a bi-weekly Friday column.

We, women of the Caribbean Regional Network of Organizations and our allies, form part of a global movement dedicated to ensuring that our Governments and other actors respect, protect and guarantee the full enjoyment of the human rights of all women and girls.

Editor’s note: This week’s column, by two contributors, pays tribute to Trinidadian born intellectual-activist Claudia Jones.

By Nigel Westmaas Nigel Westmaas teaches at Hamilton College  Any attempt to analyze or summarize the vast repertoire of Clive Thomas’s work in a single article is a daunting task.

By David Comissiong   David Comissiong is an attorney-at-law, and a former senator in the Parliament of Barbados.

By Savitri Persaud   Savitri Persaud was born in Guyana and spent part of her childhood in Moblissa, off the Linden Highway, and in Bellevue, West Bank Demerara.

By Myriam J. A. Chancy   Myriam J. A. Chancy is a Haitian-Canadian writer, Guggenheim Fellow, and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

By Maya Trotz   Maya Trotz is Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida.

By Anton L. Allahar   Anton Allahar is a Trinidadian who lives in Canada. 

By Kevin Edmonds   Kevin Edmonds is a PhD student, at the University of Toronto and is affiliated with the Center for Critical Development Studies and the Caribbean Studies Program.

By Dr Arif Bulkan   In the six weeks since the mask slipped, providing an insight into Attorney General Anil Nandlall in his unguarded moments, our battered nation has been subjected to the arrogant response of both the AG himself and the ruling party in respect of the disclosures, followed closely by the prorogation of Parliament, and then yet another debilitating flood in Georgetown and along the coast after only a few hours of rain.

 By Charlene Wilkinson Ms. Wilkinson is currently a lecturer in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies at the University of Guyana.  Her

By Kevin De Silva   Kevin De Silva, Guyanese, is a graduate of the University of Toronto and is currently engaged with issues related to Guyana and its diaspora.

By Diana Abraham, Andaiye, Arif Bulkan, Janette Bulkan, Ronald Burch-Smith, Mellissa Ifill, Leila Jagdeo, Jean La Rose, Joy Marcus, Christopher Ram, Fr Malcolm Rodrigues, Iana Seales, Alissa Trotz  On Monday November 10, 2014, President Donald Ramotar prorogued the 10th Parliament of Guyana by proclamation.

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 Gabrielle Hosein   Gabrielle Jamela Hosein is a feminist, activist, poet and Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, and also writes a column in the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian   Diaspora Column Editor’s Note: Our October 6th column reported on Dr.

By Vidyaratha Kissoon  Vidyaratha Kissoon is a Guyanese who hopes that Diwali 2014 would inspire people to remember the divine light is in every being without discrimination.

By The Caribbean Voice   The Caribbean Voice is a New York based NGO that has been involved in social activism since its launch in 1998.

Editor’s Note: Nineteen days ago, on September 17th, Dr. Wayne Kublalsingh began a second hunger strike – no food, no water – in Trinidad and Tobago.