Columns

Today, with its insistence that the democratically elected PPP government isn’t “legitimate” – even though it has lost its “built-in” Indian-based majority - several leaders in the African Guyanese community...

An editorial in a Guyana newspaper on March 13 reveals the deficiencies in Guyana’s Housing authorities. The never ending lines at the Ministry of Housing on Brickdam is a pure...

Historical Background. Historically, before foreign invaders came to India, Indian society evolved and structured the relations, between the Maharajahs, on the one hand; and Indian culture, music, dance, and the...

Most of us know the Prahalad stories about the origins of Holi - or “Phagua”, as it is known in the Bhojpuri belt from where most Indians in the Caribbean originated. But we can also look...

Growing up in Guyana in the 1950’s, more so on a sugar estate - Uitvlugt - it was impossible to escape the presence of Dr. Cheddi Jagan. My earliest recollection...

The PPP won the 1992 general election with a margin of over 50,000 votes, in 2020 they won by just 15,000 votes despite all the progress that has been made. ...

Professor Paul Tennassee hosted a program on Globespan with co-moderator, Professor Floyd Haynes a couple weeks ago, with the forum consisting of Mr. Vincent Alexander, Mr. Timothy Jonas S.C. and...

Almost every year when Indian Arrival Day comes around we are sure to see another idiot, always an Indian, saying we shouldn't celebrate it. That indentureship system was just like...

ROAR of Ravi Dev One feature of Indian immigration to Guyana as indentured labour was the painstaking records that were kept by the colonial regime following the abolition of slavery. Technically,...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Enamoured neither of travel nor mega gatherings, in the case of some Indian diaspora events, I rouse myself to participate every decade or so. They do...