Tag: Ravi Dev

In his letter seeking to rebut assertions made in my last column, “Addressing Objections to a Federalised Guyana”, Mr. Vincent Alexander claims that “Federalism is justifiable only where diversity is ...

ROAR for Guyana Most of the objections to the federalist proposals have come from African-Guyanese. This is a remarkable position, since minorities across the globe from Assam to Zimbabwe have ...

(Granger vowed to fulfil Burnham’s legacy. This is that 7-point legacy.) ROAR for Guyana First: a single mass party, led by a dictator.  While Burnham allowed other parties to exist during ...

(The following was part of a longer paper, “For a New Political Culture” presented to the three major political parties (the PNC, PPP, and WPA) in 1990 to serve as ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev During the ERC/UN/UG’s “Conversation of Ethnic Relations”, there was a heated exchange on the propriety of defining oneself as “Guyanese” versus an “ethnically hyphenated Guyanese”. I ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev This concludes the presentation to the “National Conversation on Ethnic Relations” s with proposals to improve our ethnic relations. Below are the proposals to which I ...

I was asked to make a presentation by the ERC in a “National Conversation on Ethnic Relations”, specifically on “How can we improve ethnic relations in Guyana?” Actually, it is ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev 12-1 There is no question that the citizens of a society must see it as a “common venture” even as we reject conceptions of “nation” that ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Ever so often I get this feeling during the 30 years I’ve returned to Guyana that I am in a time loop. Take this claim that ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev This article is being adapted from something I wrote in 2010, before the 2011 elections, and which called for a new narrative than the conflicting, aggressive ...