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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...

In my estimation, the fallout from the elections - in which the PNC attempted to ham-handedly rig its way to remain in office - has left the country as divided...

ROAR of Ravi Dev (8-1) A few years ago, I wrote about an animated discussion my son initiated about the poet Olive Senior whose Gardening in the Tropics was an...

The right to free speech is not necessarily the right to be taken seriously. The much vented views of persons like David Hinds, Lincoln Lewis and Vincent Alexander published in...