In The Diaspora

Dawn of a New Era in Guyana: LGBT Youth in Focus for IDAHOT 2015

By Schemel Patrick   Schemel Patrick is the Advocacy and Communications Officer at Guyana’s Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) joined the rest of the world in observing the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT) on May 17 to bring attention to the discrimination and prejudice faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.

The PPP’s theory of relativity as Einstein never imagined it

By Concerned Guyanese   Concerned Guyanese is a diverse group of young people and professionals, in Guyana and the diaspora, who have been steadily compiling information on the clear absence of a level playing field in Guyana As Guyanese go to the polls in three days, a recent report appeared in Kaieteur News (May 4, 2015), in which in an interview on Hard Talk, President Donald Ramotar defended his government against local and international accusations of corruption.

The PPP/C has been giving Guyanese the Ramsaran treatment for years

By Dr Arif Bulkan   Arif Bulkan lectures in the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies     Under Guyana’s laws, Minister of Health Bheri Ramsaran’s attack on Sherlina Nageer at the Whim Magistrate’s Court, which included telling her to ‘F- off’, calling her a “little piece of shit” and threatening to have her stripped, qualifies as harassment if it occurred in the context of persons who are associated with each other.

On being Haitian

By Reginald Dumas Reginald Dumas is a retired Ambassador and Head of the Public Service of Trinidad and Tobago.

Haiti: Five years after

By Myriam J. A. Chancy   Myriam J. A. Chancy is a Haitian-Canadian writer, Guggenheim Fellow, and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

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