My call last week for the May 5 Public Holiday - “Arrival Day” - to be renamed “Indian Arrival Day”, elicited several objections. One interlocutor even claimed I was “unpatriotic”. ...
Indian Guyanese have lost their mother tongues (they brought from India) in Guyana and other territories in the Caribbean region, except Suriname. Between 1838 and 1917 around 240,000 Indian immigrants ...
Diaspora Indians or Indians in the Caribbean and the Western World, who were not afraid to explore new frontiers such as America often, faced 'good hell,' when they arrived on ...
May 5th was officially designated a Public Holiday, “Arrival Day” in 2004. But before then and since it has been commemorated across Guyana as “Indian Arrival Day”. How did this ...
“Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth Where timeless striving ...
On Wednesday May 5, we will be commemorating “Indian Arrival Day” – which is still officially dubbed “Arrival Day”, supposedly because the government wants to acknowledge the contributions and impact ...
The huge fire at Sharon’s Mall on April 28 evokes the urgent need for adequate building construction with updated building codes, especially electric circuit designs and shut off mechanisms (like ...
Many countries proclaim that they conduct fair, free and legitimate elections yet the political directorates in these countries either at central or local levels are preoccupied with the manipulation of ...
The deception men suffer is from their own opinions — Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian renaissance painter, 1452-1519). Five hundred years later these words from the enlightened soul still holds true ...
The High Commission of India in Trinidad and Tobago handed over a cheque to the Gandhi Seva Sangh in a symbolic ceremony for the upkeep, beautification and renovation of Gandhi ...
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