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I was asked to make a presentation by the ERC in a “National Conversation on Ethnic Relations”, specifically on “How can we improve ethnic relations in Guyana?” Actually, it is...

ROAR of Ravi Dev 12-1 There is no question that the citizens of a society must see it as a “common venture” even as we reject conceptions of “nation” that...

The opposition United National Congress (UNC) in Trinidad holds leadership and party executive elections on Sunday. Unlike in other countries, party members as opposed to party delegates select the leadership...

The Guyana state newspaper, Guyana Chronicle, was ethnically biased in its composition and hiring practices during the tenure of the APNU led coalition regime. There was blatant discrimination against people...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Ever so often I get this feeling during the 30 years I’ve returned to Guyana that I am in a time loop. Take this claim that...

ROAR of Ravi Dev This article is being adapted from something I wrote in 2010, before the 2011 elections, and which called for a new narrative than the conflicting, aggressive...

ROAR of Ravi Dev After participating in several discussions over ZOOM recently I discovered that most Indian Guyanese are very impatient about discussing the past. They forget William Faulkner’s aphorism,...

“Every day is fishing, not every day is catching. Times have changed and the tide has changed.” Kishore ‘Ragoo’ Boodram would make this statement almost every time we met over...

This article addresses a letter of Mr. Tacuma Ogunseye in which he says that, “the major hindrance to unity and progress (putting aside foreign influence and dictates) is the unwillingness...

ROAR of Ravi Dev The seemingly perennial fight for “house and house-lots” invokes thoughts of the local post WWII efforts of the authorities to provide habitation for sugar workers and...