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In The Diaspora

Givens Dorgil, 29, holding his grandmother’s hand with his own hand covered in a glove to protect him from contracting cholera as well. His grandmother, Virginia Sencilna, 67, became ill and was taken to Au Secours Hospital in Gonaives, Haiti, for treatment (photograph by Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times)
Givens Dorgil, 29, holding his grandmother’s hand with his own hand covered in a glove to protect him from contracting cholera as well. His grandmother, Virginia Sencilna, 67, became ill and was taken to Au Secours Hospital in Gonaives, Haiti, for treatment (photograph by Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times)

Hold the UN accountable for Haiti’s cholera epidemic

By Myrtha Désulmé Myrtha Désulmé is President of the Haiti-Jamaica Society and the Caribbean Representative of the Haitian Diaspora Federation On 24 August, Tropical Storm Isaac pummelled Haiti, resulting in floods, mudslides, and storm surges; downed trees and power lines.

Woman-Piaba Tells Her Story

By Chelsea Fung Chelsea Fung recently completed her BA degree in Environmental Studies and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.

Women and men from Guyanese diaspora and other countries launch an International Committee in Continuing Defence of Linden

On July 18, 2012, the entire community of Linden – including religious and business leaders as well as grassroots people, women, men and children – began a peaceful protest after the government announced an 800% increase in electricity prices, without consultation and with total disregard for its impact on the survival of an already impoverished population suffering from massive unemployment.

A section of the London, UK, protest

International Solidarity with Linden

It is now twelve days since the first of five days of community protest in Linden, when teargas and live rounds were fired into crowds of unarmed women, children and men, killing three men and injuring 20.

We should not be silent: Speaking out against the July 2 Guyana Chronicle editorial

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column Today’s column, written in response to the dangerous and hateful editorial (the Roman Catholic Church was right to call it reckless) that appeared in the July 2nd edition of the Guyana Chronicle with the title “Opposition rampages to sow disunity in the country,” and which sought to portray African-Guyanese as pathologically violent with an ingrained hatred of Indian-Guyanese and mindlessly manipulated by opposition politicians (cannon fodder was the term used), has been one of the more difficult columns I have had to write in recent years.

Can feminism catch a fire in the Caribbean?

By Tonya Haynes Tonya Haynes is the co-ordinator of CODE RED for gender justice, which organized the CatchAFyah New Generation Caribbean Feminist Grounding with funding support from Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN).

Tall Palm Tree

Editor’s Note: Following on the reprinting, in last week’s Stabroek News, of Rupert Roopnaraine’s essay on the late Philip Moore (which will also be forthcoming in Roopnaraine’s latest collection of essays with Peepal Tree Press, In the Sky’s Wild Noise), this week’s column carries a poetic tribute to Philip penned by elder Eusi Kwayana.

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