In The Diaspora

By Michael Witter Michael Witter is a Jamaican economist and committed regionalist, and former lecturer at the Mona, Jamaica Campus of the University of the West Indies Editor’s Note: The Caribbean has one of the highest net food import bills in the world, an issue that has been identified as a priority area for Caricom, with Guyanese President Irfaan Ali the most prominent advocate for local and regional food security, most recently in his address to Caricom Heads in Paramaribo that set a target for the region to decrease its current volume of food imports by 25% by 2025.

By Penelope Howell Penelope (Penny) Howell is a trained teacher, and a community activist, and hails from Coverden.

By Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In the Diaspora column.

By Melinda Janki Melinda Janki is an attorney-at-law practising in Guyana and an international lawyer who has worked in over 20 countries.

Editor’s note: Amidst the photo ops and handshakes, two principled speeches stood out at the recently concluded 9th Summit of the Americas this year.

By Richard Drayton (Richard Drayton, born in Guyana and also a citizen of Barbados, is a Professor of Imperial and  Global History at King’s College London) With the death of George Lamming on June 4 (he would have been 95 today, June 8), we lost our last living connection to the generation who laid the spiritual foundations for Caribbean independence. 

By Elizabeth Deane-Hughes Elizabeth Deane-Hughes has been a non-practicing Attorney since the late 1990s.

By Red Thread Red Thread’s members are primarily grassroots women, who live daily with various forms of economic and social insecurity.

Marsha Hinds Marsha Hinds is a post doctoral fellow in Gender Studies at the University of Guelph, the immediate past president of the National Organization of Women of Barbados and the co-founder of Operation Safe Space.

By Ulric O’D Trotz Now retired,  Ulric (Neville) Trotz was formerly the Deputy Director & Science Adviser, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belmopan, Belize In a Reuters article in the Stabroek News  in their publication of April 26th , 2022,  entitled “Sand crisis looms as world population surges, U.N.

By Nicole Burrowes Nicole Burrowes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

By Red Thread Red Thread’s members are primarily grassroots women, who live daily with various forms of economic and social insecurity.

By Marsha Hinds Marsha Hinds is a post-doctoral fellow in Gender Studies at the University of Guelph, the immediate past president of the National Organization of Women of Barbados and the co-founder of Operation Safe Space.

By Penelope Howell Penelope (Penny) Howell is a trained teacher, and a community activist.

By Charlene Wilkinson Charlene Wilkinson is a lecturer in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies at the University of Guyana, a founder member of the Guyanese Languages Unit Working Group, and a member of the Guyana-Haiti Support Group “The very idea of ‘border’ only applies to the extremely vulnerable and those in need.

By Red Thread Red Thread’s members are primarily grassroots women, who live daily with various forms of economic and social insecurity.

By Omar Shahabudin McDoom Omar Shahabudin McDoom was born in London to parents who left Georgetown in the 60s.

By Thandeka Percival, Salima Hinds and Vidyaratha Kissoon Thandeka Percival is a journalist and former educator.

by Luca Istodor Luca Istodor is a queer activist from Romania.

By Rahul Basu Rahul Basu is the Research Director at the Goa Foundation and a member of ‘The Future We Need’, a global movement to make intergenerational equity foundational for civilisation beginning with minerals Treating mineral sale proceeds as revenue or income hides the real transaction — the sale of inherited wealth The principle that the economy must be “sustainable” — we cannot compromise the ability of future generations to meet their needs — is beyond question.