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Like many issues in the advocacy for inclusive agriculture and rural development in Trinidad and Tobago, the first ever International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste organized by...

(The undermentioned was the opening remarks by Ariti Jankie in her capacity as chair of ICDN Wednesday Night Zoom session (30th September, 2020) on the Life and Times of Bhadase...

Trinidad and Tobago must follow Gandhi’s message of peace, as we celebrate his 151st birth anniversary today, Friday October. 2. The world needs a paradigm shift towards universal peace and Trinidad...

Francis Evelyn Mohammed Hosein (1880-1936) Biodata Francis Evelyn Mohammed Hosein (1880-1936), Barrister, Politician and Mayor, was born in Arouca on 25 March 1880. Island Scholar, 1901; he was the first...

ROAR of Ravi Dev 9-3-20 Last week, David Hinds informed me he had formed a new organization. “Society for African Guyanese Empowerment” (SAGE), and invited me to a panel discussion...

ROAR of Ravi Dev When late last Sunday afternoon I received the news of the horrible murder and mutilation of teenagers Joel and Isaiah Henry in the back-dam of Cotton...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Way back in 1963, after the leaders of the PPP, PNC and UF could not reach agreement on a way forward on Constitutional measures following ethnic...

After surviving the PNC’s latest assault on our constitution - and the rule of law that undergirds it -maybe we can better appreciate the comment of BR Ambedkar, the drafter...

ROAR of Ravi Dev The anthropologist, MG Smith, was criticised on his ‘culturally plural society’ model he applied to several Caribbean societies including Guyana. “Too static”, it was claimed: it...

WORLD INDIAN DIASPORA CONFERENCE 2020 Celebration of the Formal Abolition of Indian Indentureship (1920) This paper will place Indian indentureship in its wider historical context as part of the historically...