In The Diaspora

By Harold A. Drayton Harold Drayton served as the First Deputy Vice-Chancellor (1963-1964) at the University  of Guyana, and as Professor and Head of the Department of Biology.

By Fatimah Jackson-Best   Fatimah Jackson-Best is a Muslim woman, a researcher, and a writer.

By Lakshmi Persaud  Trinidadian writer Lakshmi Persaud was one of six persons who recently received an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies (UWI), St.

Diaspora Column Editor’s Note:   Jamaican Richard Hart, historian, trade unionist, lawyer and teacher, died in the UK on Saturday at the age of 96.

By Maya Trotz  Dr. Maya Trotz is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column Editor’s Note:  November 25 is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

By Miguel Ceara-Hatton Miguel Ceara-Hatton is a professor and researcher in economics from the Dominican Republic.

By Honor Ford-Smith   Honor Ford-Smith is Associate Professor of Community and Environmental Art in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada. 

By Arturo Victoriano Arturo Victoriano, Ph.D., is from the Dominican Republic and is a Lecturer at the Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto, Mississauga.

By Wendy C. Grenade and Kimalee Phillip   Editor’s Note: This year marks the 60th anniversary of that historic moment of national unity for Guyanese, a moment that was sabotaged 133 days after the People’s Progressive Party galvanized the country under a multiracial, anti-colonial, nationalist banner, a moment that has eluded our grasp ever since.

By Peter Fraser  Peter Fraser, currently at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University, previously taught at the University West Indies, St.

Rory Fraser is Professor of Forest Economics and Policy at Alabama A & M University, and has spent 36 of the last 40 years in the UK, Canada, Jamaica, USA, and Guyana either attending or teaching at universities and working in forestry related fields By Rory Fraser .

By Andy Higginbottom Andy Higginbotham is Secretary of the Colombia Solidarity Campaign and Principal Lecturer at Kingston University, London Editor’s Note: This is an adapted version of an essay that was carried on the 1804 Caribvoices blog (http://1804caribvoices.org)

Suzanne Narain – is first generation Canadian, born in Toronto of Guyanese parents.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column This column is dedicated to the memory of Dwayne Jones, murdered in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in July of this year.

By Ewart Thomas   (Professor of Psychology and former Dean of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, California, USA, Thomas teaches a large introductory Statistics course and graduate-level Statistics and research methods courses.)

By Rory Fraser, PhD Professor of Forest Economics and Policy, Alabama A&M University Rory Fraser has spent most of the last 40 years in academic institutions in the United Kingdom, Canada, USA, Jamaica, and Guyana.

With the support of the UN Women Multi-Country Office for the Caribbean, this Joint Statement was generated by high level government officials and civil society representatives from CARICOM countries, with inputs from regional inter- governmental bodies and international partners in the Caribbean.

Toronto-based professional Ruchika Arora is an aspiring non-fiction writer with a particular interest in examining contemporary issues through a social-political lens.

By Sunity Maharaj   Editor’s Note: In this week’s diaspora column, first carried in the Trinidad Express Newspaper on August 10,2013, columnist and social activist Sunity Maharaj reflects on the struggle to recognise domestic employees as workers.