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Much has been said, good and bad, about the man Bhadase Maraj, and much has remained unsaid. It has reached a point where now just the mention of his name...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Last week we wrote about voting patterns in Guyana and what we may expect on March 2, next year. By 1992, the left-right ideological divided had...

The Indian Diaspora Council International (IDC) joins with other organizations, agencies, groups, individuals and institutions locally and worldwide in expressing strong and unequivocal condemnation of the brutal, shocking attack on...

ROAR of Ravi Dev The PNC bent backwards to accommodate the AFC in their coalition “accord” renegotiation. Why else would they give the latter 30% of the seats they would...

ROAR of Ravi Dev                In the ongoing debate on the merits and demerits of “ethnic” representation by some of our public intellectuals, those who insist there are specifically “ethnic” concerns...

ROAR of Ravi Dev With elections imminent, “race” has inevitably taken centre stage. In Guyana, the concept of “race” is a legacy of European rule. And it is not coincidental...

Like many Trinis at home and abroad, I was quite astonished to hear that the Trinidad government had sold the Petrotrin refinery to the Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) owned...

ROAR of Ravi Dev In January 2005, with elections a year away, I proposed a “Center Force” strategy for the plethora of smaller parties then around – three with single...

ROAR of Ravi Dev As we enter the stretch to the elections ribbon of March 2, 2020 we witness a prime characteristic of politics in Guyana: a welter of new...

A Trinidad based man I met on a visit to the old country went into ambush mode when he heard that I was living in Canada. He let me have...