Tag: carribean

Last October 5th 2023 marked the 31st anniversary since the restoration of democracy in Guyana with first free and fair elections. It was the date that marked the end of ...

The Guyanese diaspora played a significant role in the struggle against the Guyana dictatorship and for free and fair elections in the former homeland as well as in the removal ...

To cast pearls before swines is a warning from Christ’s sermon on the Mount that you’ll waste something precious by offering it to someone who has no appreciation of what ...

Spokespersons for the UNC denigrated minor parties contending they don’t have much political support but make big demands and or seek ‘outsized influence’ in a proposed alliance and or accommodation. ...

Badru Deens’ book was published eleven years ago in 2013 and ever since he’s been logging it around, promoting it as any marketing genius would have advised him to do ...

Although this May Indians would have been in Guyana for 186 years (starting on May 5, 1838), documents relating to their arrival and oppressive conditions, perseverance and survival as well ...

Holi or Phagwah celebrations, the ancient cultural festival of India brought to and transplanted in the Caribbean and South America and other parts of the globe, was introduced in New ...

Dear Editor, By Raymond Ramcharitar I saw a less-than-three-minute clip of Kamla Persad Bissessar being interviewed by CNC3's Akash Samaroo. Assuming that is the whole interview (I couldn't find a ...

Dear Editor, The rather innocuous retort of one American to another, the latter remarking on the “load of bull” spewed by someone in high office and the other responding, cynically ...

Dear Editor, I was sitting at a meeting recently with HOPE’s executive. One member was stating how disappointed he was with the population’s response to HOPE and how despair was ...