Arif Bulkan

Guyana is in a most profound crisis. This crisis has been in the making for over 50 years – ever since the declaration of independence that came on the heels of the collapse of a multiracial anticolonial movement, the intervention of the joined imperialist forces of the UK and US and the convulsive coastal racial disturbances of the 1960s that delivered almost unshakeable constituencies of African and Indian Guyanese to the two major political parties in Guyana.

This is an edited version of a talk given by Dr Arif Bulkan at a Public Commemorative Lecture held on November 21, 2018 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the University of Guyana, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

By Arif Bulkan, Ulele Burnham and Alissa Trotz     The nation is now 21 days away from an epochal election.

Dr. Arif Bulkan teaches constitutional law and Caribbean human rights law at the St.

Arif Bulkan teaches human rights law at the University of the West Indies in Barbados.

Football of yesteryear flourished in the urban working-class communities that border Georgetown to the east and to the south.

Arif Bulkan teaches human rights law at the University of the West Indies in Barbados.

Dr Arif Bulkan teaches human rights law at the University of the West Indies in Barbados The purpose of my diaspora column of Monday, September 6 was to highlight the current practice of Caricom Impacs, in which HIV screening is carried out at the recruitment stage of its employment process.

Arif Bulkan lectures in the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies The following story was brought to my attention almost two years ago, involving a CARICOM national who was offered employment within a CARICOM agency, but which offer was subsequently withdrawn.