By Lotus Founded by Preity Kumar, Suzanne Narain, and Talisha Ramsaroop, Lotus is a grassroots organization in Toronto, Canada which focuses on building social connections, educational initiatives, and empowering the lives of Indo-Caribbean women.
By Roberta Clarke, Marsha Hinds and Gabrielle Hosein This week’s column offers three responses to Farmer Nappy’s Hookin’ Meh 2019 soca hit that is taking the carnival season by storm.
By Raffique Shah As a 24 year old lieutenant in the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment during the Black Power riots of the 1970s, Raffique Shah led a mutiny to deny the government use of military against the mass movement.
By Danuta Radzik, Andaiye, Honor Ford-Smithand D. Alissa Trotz If you would like to support this statement, please add your name at the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOaYK7DrMl1wTADDzWRqC9rSN34640noU-zOiMmZDxEhJLdA/viewform?usp=sf_link
By Phil Miller Phil Miller is a British investigative journalist based in London.
By Ronald Cummings Ronald Cummings teaches Caribbean literature in the Department of English at B rock University, Canada.
By Deborah Hamilton Deborah Hamilton worked for several years as a teacher at Queen’s College before moving to Canada, where she now teaches.
By D. Alissa Trotz D. Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In the Diaspora Column A few weeks after the 2011 elections that delivered a minority PPP government, the Amerindian People’s Association, Church Women United, Commonground, Guyana Human Rights Association, Guyana Society for the Blind, Rights of Children and Red Thread issued a statement in which they noted that the “margins of victory are sufficiently small as to impose a degree of bi-partisanship and negotiated politics, replacing the rubber-stamp winner-take-all approach which has characterised Guyanese politics for too long.
By Ulric Trotz Ulric Trotz is the Deputy Director & Science Adviser, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belmopan, Belize Two years ago in Paris, at the Conference Of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC), the global community concluded the historic Paris Agreement, which was hailed at the time as the platform for serious global action to address the existential risks engendered by climate change.
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 Eintou Springer Eintou Springer is a Trinidad born poet, storyteller, actor and retired Librarian with over forty years of cultural work throughout the Caribbean.
Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In The Diaspora Column On Tuesday 13th November 2018, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Guyana’s final court of appeal, struck down a law that was first passed in Guyana in 1893.
By The Caribbean Voice and Voices Against Violence Janet (name changed to protect identity) is a very strong, college-educated woman who, at the request of her husband, gave up her job to stay at home after marriage.
By Peter Wickham Peter W. Wickham (peter.w.wickham@gmail.com) is a political consultant and a director of Caribbean Development Research Services (CADRES).
Ryan Persadie is a doctoral student in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.
Dhanaiswary Jaganauth (Lecturer at the University of Guyana) Sunday, October 28, 2018 was International Creole Day.
By: Kevin Edmonds Kevin Edmonds hails from the Caribbean, and is a graduate student at the University of Toronto and a member of the Caribbean Solidarity Network.
By Suzanne Narain Suzanne Narain is a community activist in the Jane-Finch area of Toronto where she grew up, the child of Guyanese immigrants.
By Shamette Hepburn Shamette Hepburn is a Caribbean national and an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, York University, Canada.
By Lincoln Lewis Lincoln Lewis brings more than three decades of local, regional and international trade union experience.
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