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Dear Editor, I have read that a little-known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton. This revelation...

On May 26, Guyana once again commemorated the “Independence” that was given to the PNC government by the British in 1966 after engineered the latter’s victory in the Dec 7,1964,...

We have just commemorated the 55th Anniversary of our Independence which was granted to Forbes Burnham and the PNC after they colluded with the British and the Americans to oust the...

Keith Rowley has the unmitigated gall and effrontery to write that the Couva Hospital was completed under the PNM in 2016. As the health care system is literally collapsing under...

A Hindu leader with an unbridled passion to serve his community, and the people of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Maniram ‘Clifford’ Rampaul, formerly of Rio Claro, passed away on May...

It is time that Trinidad and Tobago get serious about its political history and the personages who occupied these positions of honour and regality. I am referring to the concept...

I have held off to date from commenting on the remarks of Ms Walton-Desir that has precipitated such a heated debate on race and racism in Guyana. On a social...

Is de first time dat I hear Irfaanexcept for social conversationand I got to admit, I didn’t seeanything I was warned to look fah,no puppet strings nor puppeteer,in fact, I...

My call last week for the May 5 Public Holiday - “Arrival Day” -  to be renamed “Indian Arrival Day”, elicited several objections. One interlocutor even claimed I was “unpatriotic”....

Indian Guyanese have lost their mother tongues (they brought from India) in Guyana and other territories in the Caribbean region, except Suriname. Between 1838 and 1917 around 240,000 Indian immigrants...