In The Diaspora

By Gabrielle Jamela Hosein Gabrielle Jamela Hosein is a feminist, activist, poet and Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, and also writes a column in the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian A shorter version of this column appeared in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday on Wednesday July 3, 2024.

By Horace (Raymond) Leonard Henriques July 2, 1945 – June 5, 2023Editor’s Note: This week we share a short story written by Guyanese Professor, Horace (Raymond) Henriques, who died on January 5th, 2023, after 7 years of enduring a rapid decline of Lewy Body dementia and Parkinsonian symptoms.

By Sasha Filippova Sasha Filippova is the Senior Staff Attorney for the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH).

By Vidia (Bobin) Roopchand On Saturday last, Guyanese scientist Vidia (Bobin, a nickname he got from his uncle who was a tailor) Roopchand, who hails from Wakenaam, was one of one 29 awardees at the 2024 awards organised and hosted by the RESET Talk Show, a platform and weekly broadcast out of New York.

By Lear Matthews Lear Matthews is Professor Emeritus and former Lecturer at University of Guyana.

“This court …… is satisfied that Mahender Sharma and Joslyn Mckenzie ought to have recused themselves from the decision-making process of the EAB regarding the exemption of the power plant from an environmental impact assessment…” By Danuta Radzik (Danuta Radzik is a woman and child rights advocate, counsellor,  educator for over 40 years and environmental defender) I am grateful for the opportunity to comment on Judge Morris- Ramlall’s ruling on May 3, 2024 in the case, Danuta Radzik and the Environmental Assessment Board, and on some of the events which led up to the filing of this court case.

By Suraj Yengde Suraj Yengde, who earned his PhD from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is currently reading for a second doctoral degree in the Faculty of History at Oxford University.

By Michael Witter Michael Witter is a retired Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies.

Feminists, women’s rights advocates, and civil society members across the Caribbean are aggrieved by the continued genocide in Palestine and the equivocation of many CARICOM Member States in response.

By Magdalee Brunache Magdalee Brunache is from Haiti, and is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science with a focus on Development Studies and Comparative Politics at the University of Toronto In Haiti, the security situation has reached an unprecedented level, with an estimated 1,554 people killed in the first three months of 2024.

Robert Fatton Jr. is the Ambassador Henry J. Taylor and Mrs.

By Anita Baksh Anita Baksh is Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York (CUNY).

 Editor’s note: Last week, former US President Bill Clinton visited Guyana, to participate in conversations on investment in the region at the United Caribbean Forum, organised by the locally based Dominican Republic Chamber of Commerce.

Editor’s Note: Last Friday, March 22, a resolution was presented by the US at the UN Security Council that “would have determined the imperative of an immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza,” for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and that according to a Reuters report, called for “the release of all hostages and an expanded flow of humanitarian assistance to Gaza.”

Chief Justice & President of the Supreme Court of Kenya, 2011-2016.

By Freedom ImaginariesUnder the banner #WithHaitianRefugees, Freedom Imaginaries is urging CARICOM to establish a rights-based regional approach for the protection of Haitian migrants and refugees as leaders prepare to meet in Jamaica today, March 11, to discuss the dire situation in Haiti.

The Protests and Pedagogy Collective was formed in 2018 to organize a series of commemorative events for the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Sir George Williams University Protest.

by Jemima Pierre Jemima Pierre, Ph.D., is a Haitian-born Professor at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia and Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg. 

Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS) is a 28-year-old environmental watch-dog NGO in Trinidad and Tobago, committed to monitoring the activities of the extractive sector.

by Tammy Turner (tturnr) Tammy Turner is a Russian born, Jamaican raised, Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, poet and teacher currently residing between Canada, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.