In The Diaspora

Michael Witter is a Jamaican economist and committed regionalist, who teaches at the Mona, Jamaica Campus of the University of the West Indies.

By Nigel Westmaas Nigel Westmaas teaches at Hamilton College “The people are doing nothing.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora column. Barbadian writer George Lamming has written compellingly of the limits of Westminster style democracy in the Caribbean, a system he sees as reducing the populace “to the dormant and abused status of electoral fodder [where] every five years, they become visible and decisive in a tribal power game which concludes with their absence from any serious consultation about their future.”

By Alissa Trotz and Arif Bulkan Editor’s note: The In The Diaspora column scheduled for Monday, November 28th is being carried in today’s edition.

By Arif Bulkan Arif Bulkan teaches human rights law at the University of the West Indies in Barbados.

Janette Bulkan is a Social Anthropologist who was Coordinator of the Amerindian Research Unit, University of Guyana from 1985 to 1999 and Senior Social Scientist at the Iwokrama International Centre from 2000 to 2003.

Arif Bulkan teaches human rights law at the University of the West Indies in Barbados.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column Thanks to Camille Turner, mervin Jarman, Matt Price, Francesca da Rimini and Wayne Motayne for sending such an abundance of information and inspiration as I developed this column.

The In The Diaspora column has been delayed this week and is likely to be carried in tomorrow’s edition.

Alissa Trotz is the editor of the In the Diaspora column.

By Kevin Edmonds Kevin Edmonds is a freelance journalist and doctoral student in Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora column. A few days ago I came across an article on CSME Network News, an online news resource that describes itself as compiling “the latest in political and business news from CARICOM member states.”

By Savitri Persaud Savitri Persaud was born in Guyana, and spent part of her childhood in Moblissa, off the Linden Highway.

By Anthony Morgan A Jamaican who was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Anthony Morgan is a Caribbean law student at McGill University, Faculty of Law.

By Nigel Westmaas and Juanita De Barros This week’s column is an abridged version of a historical commentary by historians Juanita De Barros and Nigel Westmaas, on the activities of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in British Guiana.

By Meg Sullivan This article, by Meg Sullivan, was originally run by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Newsroom, August 18, 2011.

By Nigel Westmaas Nigel Westmaas teaches at Hamilton College “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions” Hamlet It is perhaps a coincidence that the very week in which the Head of the Presidential Secretariat had to respond to embarrassing questions in court in the ongoing libel suit filed by President Bharrat Jagdeo against popular columnist Frederick Kissoon, is the very week that the Wikileaks exposed astounding new revelations on very high officials in the state and more significantly, Guyana’s reputation as a narco-trafficking entity.

By Gabrielle HoseinGabrielle Jamela Hosein is a feminist, activist, poet and Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, St.

Annalee Davis is a visual artist living and working in Barbados.

By Melanie Newton “… yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often… Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.”