Tag: Guyana

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 ...

There have been persistent, now turning desperate, calls for a new political order in Guyana. We insist, however, that any new political system we construct, ought to be built on ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Vincent Alexander has chided President Irfan Ali for insisting he will not speak to Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon until the latter quits referring to him as ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev 9-3-20 Last week, David Hinds informed me he had formed a new organization. “Society for African Guyanese Empowerment” (SAGE), and invited me to a panel discussion ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev When late last Sunday afternoon I received the news of the horrible murder and mutilation of teenagers Joel and Isaiah Henry in the back-dam of Cotton ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Way back in 1963, after the leaders of the PPP, PNC and UF could not reach agreement on a way forward on Constitutional measures following ethnic ...

After surviving the PNC’s latest assault on our constitution - and the rule of law that undergirds it -maybe we can better appreciate the comment of BR Ambedkar, the drafter ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev The anthropologist, MG Smith, was criticised on his ‘culturally plural society’ model he applied to several Caribbean societies including Guyana. “Too static”, it was claimed: it ...

In my estimation, the fallout from the elections - in which the PNC attempted to ham-handedly rig its way to remain in office - has left the country as divided ...

The call for constitutional reform comes from both national and international sources such as local political parties, analysts, as well as international organizations like the European Union and the Carter Center. ...