In The Diaspora

By Rory Fraser Rory Fraser is Professor of Forest Economics and Policy at Alabama A & M University.

Rory Fraser is Professor of Forest Economics and Policy at Alabama A & M University.

Guyanese-born Ron Fanfair is well rooted on the communication highway of the Black community.

Kevin Edmonds is an independent journalist and doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto.

The diaspora column is edited by Alissa Trotz Editor’s Note: The 10th parliament is now in session, and Guyanese are now waiting to see what will unfold with the presentation of the 2012 budget.

By Janette Bulkan In the second article in this series ‘The rule of law – inefficiency and corruption in the export of timber logs to Asia’ published by Stabroek News on 30 January 2012, I showed how a non-systematic approach by government agencies added to business costs and opened doors to corrupt and illegal practices. 

By Arif Bulkan, Alissa Trotz & Nigel Westmaas As the editorial in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek noted, just two months ago there appeared to be speculation that Freddie Kissoon,  lecturer at the University of Guyana for 26 years and one of the most popular and controversial newspaper columnists in the country, was being targeted for the termination of his teaching contract.

Tennyson Joseph is a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. 

By Janette Bulkan Janette Bulkan is a Social Anthropologist who was Coordinator of the Amerindian Research Unit, University of Guyana from 1985 to 1999 and Senior Social Scientist at the Iwokrama International Centre from 2000 to 2003.

Frank Birbalsingh is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at York University in Toronto, where he taught for over thirty years.

Michael Witter is a Jamaican economist and committed regionalist, who teaches at the Mona, Jamaica Campus of the University of the West Indies.

By Nigel Westmaas Nigel Westmaas teaches at Hamilton College “The people are doing nothing.

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.”

By Alissa Trotz and Arif Bulkan Editor’s note: The In The Diaspora column scheduled for Monday, November 28th is being carried in today’s edition.

By Arif Bulkan Arif Bulkan teaches human rights law at the University of the West Indies in Barbados.

Janette Bulkan is a Social Anthropologist who was Coordinator of the Amerindian Research Unit, University of Guyana from 1985 to 1999 and Senior Social Scientist at the Iwokrama International Centre from 2000 to 2003.

Arif Bulkan teaches human rights law at the University of the West Indies in Barbados.

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.

The In The Diaspora column has been delayed this week and is likely to be carried in tomorrow’s edition.

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