In The Diaspora

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

By Anthony Morgan A Jamaican who was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Anthony Morgan is a Caribbean law student at McGill University, Faculty of Law.

By Nigel Westmaas and Juanita De Barros This week’s column is an abridged version of a historical commentary by historians Juanita De Barros and Nigel Westmaas, on the activities of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in British Guiana.

By Meg Sullivan This article, by Meg Sullivan, was originally run by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Newsroom, August 18, 2011.

By Nigel Westmaas Nigel Westmaas teaches at Hamilton College “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions” Hamlet It is perhaps a coincidence that the very week in which the Head of the Presidential Secretariat had to respond to embarrassing questions in court in the ongoing libel suit filed by President Bharrat Jagdeo against popular columnist Frederick Kissoon, is the very week that the Wikileaks exposed astounding new revelations on very high officials in the state and more significantly, Guyana’s reputation as a narco-trafficking entity.

By Gabrielle HoseinGabrielle Jamela Hosein is a feminist, activist, poet and Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, St.

Annalee Davis is a visual artist living and working in Barbados.

By Melanie Newton “… yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often… Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.”

Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In the Diaspora Column In a letter written in the August 3rd edition of the Stabroek News, ‘One must prize freedom and use it to make proper choices,’ Pastor Darion Comacho offers a number of interesting reflections on the theme of freedom, some of which we will return to in future diaspora columns.

By Linden Lewis Linden Lewis is Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University.

By Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins Two Vincentians – Holly Bynoe, a visual artist and Nadia Huggins, a digital photographer – have conceptualized and are preparing to release the third quarterly issue of ARC Magazine, a publication that focuses on a collection of works by contemporary visual and literary artists practicing in the Caribbean and its Diaspora.

In March and April, two diaspora columns examined the Former Presidents (Benefits and Other Facilities) Act No.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the Diaspora Column In her column last Saturday in the Stabroek News, Stella Ramsaroop shared with readers some of the text from her interviews with three Presidential candidates – David Granger (APNU), Donald Ramotar (PPP), Khemraj Ramjattan (AFC) – on the question of how each of them would address domestic violence.

In last week’s column, ‘Homosexuals, Dirty Words…and Me,’ award-winning US based Guyanese singer Nhojj spoke of the dangers of living in a world that can “never reflect the full spectrum of our lives,” cutting us off not only from each other but from parts of ourselves.

By Nhojj Nhojj has shared stages with Norah Jones, Regina Belle, and Taylor Dayne. 

Savitri Persaud was born in Guyana, and spent part of her childhood in Moblissa, off the Linden Highway.

Deborah A. Thomas is Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

By Amar Wahab Amar Wahab is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West Indies, St.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column. Over the weekend both Stabroek News and Kaieteur News ran important pieces that addressed the significance of May Day, now celebrated all over the world.

Alissa Trotz is the editor of the Diaspora Column. A recent Diaspora Column by Dr.