In The Diaspora

By Felician Medino Abraham Felician Medino Abraham is from Santa Rosa Moruca.

While other politicians glossed over the island’s problems, Trump lays colonialism’s cruelty bare.

By Lincoln Lewis Lincoln Lewis brings more than three decades of local, regional and international trade union experience.

By Laura George, Wazir Mohamed, Marcello Mello, and Medino Abraham Laura George is the Governance & Rights Coordinator for the Amerindian Peoples Association.

By Lear Matthews Lear Matthews is professor, State University of New York, Empire State College.

By G. J. Giddings Dr. Jahwara Giddings is Professor of History at Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio Food is so central to human life and culture that a West African proverb maintains that “There is no god quite like our stomach, as we must make sacrifices to it every day!”

By Roberta Clarke Roberta Clarke is a human rights and social justice activist.

By Jade Nixon Jade Nixon is a graduate student at the University of Toronto.

By Tyrone Hall Tyrone Hall is a Caribbean national with nearly a decade of experience managing some of the region’s leading environmental initiatives.

Angel (Seon) Fraser is a litigant in the challenge to the cross-dressing law of Guyana.

By Rae Wiltshire (Pheches (Joseph) Fraser is a litigant in the challenge to the cross-dressing law of Guyana.

By Reverend Patricia Sheerattan-Bisnauth (Guyana Presbyterian aChurch, Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association) Almost every society faces issues of discrimination to varying degrees, where people reject others because of differences and where various forms of domination and control affect relationships – whether it is men over women, leaders over followers, large nations over small ones or in different forms of gender/sexual orientation, age/race/tribe/caste/class supremacy.

By Alessandra Hereman Alessandra Hereman is a young transgender woman who is studying at the University of Guyana “It is not our differences that divide us.

By Rae Wiltshire Rae Wiltshire is an award-winning playwright, theatre director and short story writer.

By: Wazir Mohamed & Mark Chatarpal Dr. Wazir Mohamed is a former activist and co-leader of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA).

By Nicholas Peters Nicholas Peters is a writer, volunteer member of SASOD and human rights activist.

By Ric Couchman Ric Couchman was born in Georgetown, Guyana where he lived for 24 years before leaving for Jamaica to pursue a degree in Theological studies.

By Roberta Clarke Roberta Clarke is currently a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists.

By D. Alissa Trotz D. Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column This Wednesday May 23rd, Professor Ivelaw Griffith, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Guyana (UG), will be hosting a solemn ceremony at the George Walcott Lecture Theatre in memory of Harold ‘Harry’ Drayton, who died in March of this year.

Tamirand De Lisser, Hubert Devonish, Rhonda Jeffrey and Charlene Wilkinson Tamirand Nnena De Lisser is a Lecturer of Linguistics at the University of Guyana.