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Indian money might run low but it doesn’t run out. Indians believe in education and we do well in education. We Indians in Trinidad (and in Guyana too) have heard...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Now that Nomination Day has come and gone, after all the buzz about the need for a “third force” to deny both the PPP and PNC...

Indians in Trinidad and Guyana desperately want real, fundamental change in this election year but they are not likely to get it. Black people in both countries do not want...

ROAR of Ravi Dev 1-1-20 Last week, I started to look back at events that occurred at the end of the second decade of the 20th century, when there were initiatives...

Many and varied are the political blunders made in Trinidad and Tobago in the last century. The country has an unrivalled record of major mistakes that would normally guarantee death...

ROAR of Ravi Dev This New Year’s Day is very significant in the history of Guyana: it the 100th anniversary of the abolition of all Indian indentures in 1920. Three years...

A case in Toronto earlier this month of a black West Indian couple brutalizing a 59 year-old Indian woman in a home invasion brought back nightmare visions to some Indo...

ROAR of Ravi Dev We boast that Guyana is a ‘multi-religious’ country. But how effective are our policies to deal with the reality of intolerance that led to a very...

ROAR of Ravi Dev We hope with the official launch of the campaigns the major parties will make their position clear on the role of government in the development of...

Much has been said, good and bad, about the man Bhadase Maraj, and much has remained unsaid. It has reached a point where now just the mention of his name...