Tag: Harry Hergash

Dear Editor, I write regarding Dr Devanand Bhagwan’s letter “Hindustani, not Girmitiya, is the correct and respectful designation for descendants of Indian indentured labourers in the Caribbean” (Stabroek NewsDecember 12, ...

Dear Editor, As the debate on the need to implement biometrics for voter identification in Guyana’s general elections continues, it seems that the focus is really on electronic verification of ...

Dear Editor, While I do not support admonition of judges, a practice that has gained prominence in the USA (one of the world’s foremost democracies) where the former and possibly ...

DEAR Editor, As I look at the reports and letters in the major newspapers in Guyana on the recently concluded congress of each of the two key opposition parties in ...

Dear Editor, As Guyanese observe Arrival Day, in this piece I look at the experience of Indian Guyanese in Canada following the second migration of people of Indian origin. Despite ...

Dear Editor: As February is Black History month, I wish to share two pieces of information on Guyanese history which, I believe, are not generally known by most Guyanese. It ...

I write regarding the article ‘Rethinking Forbes Burnham: Revelations from the “303 Committee” on laying the foundation for Guyana’s dictatorship’ by Baytoram Ramharack (Stabroek News, November 14, 2021). In the ...

In February of this year, Guyanese-born author and advocate for stable democracy in Guyana, Dr Baytoram Ramharack who is a lecturer in history and political science at the Nassau Community ...

Between 1838 and 1917, East Indians were recruited and brought to Guyana, then a British colony called British Guiana, under the Indentureship scheme to provide manual labour on the sugar ...

During the Indian indentureship scheme which lasted officially from 1838 to 1917, approximately 240,000 individuals were recruited in India and brought to Guyana (then British Guiana) to work as labourers ...