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The Trinidad Express, recently published a two-part Opinion piece, “The education of children of African origin” endorsed by 23 intellectuals of African origin. It raises some important issues that need...

ROAR of Ravi Dev               One of the most poignant and persistent cries heard around Guyana – especially around elections time – is, “Why do we have to hear about Africans...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Observing the rhetoric deployed in the blogsphere, social media and the letter-pages of the newspapers, I have been struck by the ubiquitous invocation of the trope...

Roar of Ravi Dev In Guyana, the question of an equitable distribution of economic goods has always loomed large. And history offers valuable perspectives on this condition; perspectives that should...

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...