In The Diaspora

Iz CARIFESTA ah big Ting?

By Errol Brewster Errol Ross Brewster is a Caribbean artist from Guyana, who has lived in Barbados, and is currently living in the United States.

The implications of Breadfruit-Cassava Flour: A view from Jamaica, a comment from Guyana

By Michael Witter Michael Witter is a Jamaican economist and committed regionalist, and former lecturer at the Mona, Jamaica Campus of the University of the West Indies Editor’s Note: The Caribbean has one of the highest net food import bills in the world, an issue that has been identified as a priority area for Caricom, with Guyanese President Irfaan Ali the most prominent advocate for local and regional food security, most recently in his address to Caricom Heads in Paramaribo that set a target for the region to decrease its current volume of food imports by 25% by 2025.

George Lamming (1927-2022)

By Richard Drayton (Richard Drayton, born in Guyana and also a citizen of Barbados, is a Professor of Imperial and  Global History at King’s College London) With the death of George Lamming on June 4 (he would have been 95 today, June 8), we lost our last living connection to the generation who laid the spiritual foundations for Caribbean independence. 

Guyana’s Sand Deposits

By Ulric O’D Trotz Now retired,  Ulric (Neville) Trotz was formerly the Deputy Director & Science Adviser, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belmopan, Belize In a Reuters article in the Stabroek News  in their publication of April 26th , 2022,  entitled “Sand crisis looms as world population surges, U.N.

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