Alissa Trotz is editor of the Diaspora Column In her column last Saturday in the Stabroek News, Stella Ramsaroop shared with readers some of the text from her interviews with three Presidential candidates – David Granger (APNU), Donald Ramotar (PPP), Khemraj Ramjattan (AFC) – on the question of how each of them would address domestic violence.
In last week’s column, ‘Homosexuals, Dirty Words…and Me,’ award-winning US based Guyanese singer Nhojj spoke of the dangers of living in a world that can “never reflect the full spectrum of our lives,” cutting us off not only from each other but from parts of ourselves.
By Nhojj Nhojj has shared stages with Norah Jones, Regina Belle, and Taylor Dayne.
Savitri Persaud was born in Guyana, and spent part of her childhood in Moblissa, off the Linden Highway.
Deborah A. Thomas is Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
By Amar Wahab Amar Wahab is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West Indies, St.
Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column. Over the weekend both Stabroek News and Kaieteur News ran important pieces that addressed the significance of May Day, now celebrated all over the world.
Alissa Trotz is the editor of the Diaspora Column. A recent Diaspora Column by Dr.
Colin Rickards is an author, journalist, broadcaster and Caribbeanist with long connections to Guyana and its authors.
By Danielle Toppin In her work with Sistren Theatre Collective of Jamaica, Danielle Toppin focuses on mainstreaming gender into the composition of the grassroots organizations’ work, as well as on designing and facilitating workshops on gender, culture and identity.
Adele Perry is Associate Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Western Canadian Social History at the University of Manitoba.
By Cary Fraser Cary Fraser is a regular contributor to the Trinidad and Tobago Review and writes on international relations in the Middle East, American foreign policy, and Caribbean history.
As an Ethiopian who spent the better part of my youth in Guyana, this article is written in the spirit of international solidarity articulated by the likes of Walter Rodney and other members of the Dar es Salaam school.
By Linden Lewis Linden Lewis is a Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, USA.
Arif Bulkan teaches human rights law at the University of the West Indies in Barbados.
By Raymond Ramcharitar Raymond Ramcharitar is a Trinidadian journalist. He has written about art and culture for 20 years.
Carolyn Cooper is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
By Kevin de Silva Kevin De Silva is a second generation Guyanese-Canadian, and a student of Political Science and Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto.
Jens Hanssen is Associate Professor of Middle East History at the University of Toronto.
By Alissa TrotzAlissa Trotz is editor of the Diaspora Column We have just commemorated the third anniversary of the brutal and inhuman assault on the village of Lusignan that ended with the slaughter of eleven persons, five of them children.
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