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District Leader Albert Baldeo, a former Magistrate, Senior Prosecutor and Police Legal Advisor in Guyana, who holds the distinction of being the first Special Prosecutor appointed in Guyana’s history to...

I heard about his brilliance long before I met him. I was being interviewed by the late B C Pires. He started the interview with a very silly question that...

Like Mahatma Gandhi, Basdeo Panday’s life was his message, one that permeated the nation-state of Trinidad and Tobago, and this fully evolved when he along with George Weekes, then President...

It was one of the best tributes (eulogies) I saw or heard and perhaps the best speech President Christine Kangaloo (of Trinidad and Tobago) ever delivered. Kangalooo shone like a...

From Gary Griffith As Minister of National Security, I was tasked with coordinating the State Funeral of His Excellency ANR Robinson, which lasted 5 days. Held in Trinidad and then...

Basdeo Panday died on New Year’s Day. A state funeral was held for the former Prime Minister on Tuesday January 9. His funeral rites (Hindu) and tributes to him brought...

Rickesh living in New Yawk in Uncle Sampat backyard suh dem deliver straight to ee a sammans from abroad; courtesy of abee saroo bhai. Sammans does not authorize any intrusion...

Because Panday proved that he was capable of surmounting the insurmountable; that he would become PM of a country that chanted as one of its mantras, no Indian could ever...

Basdeo Panday died on New Year’s Day at a Jacksonville, Florida, hospital. Tributes have poured in about this very colorful character who was a lawyer, politician, trade unionist, economist, actor,...

Penned by Cliff Rajkumar Looking back, we opened 2023 with optimism after almost three years of surviving the dreaded COVID-19 and with the hope that the Ukraine war would end...