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(An Open Letter to Prime Minister Mia Mottley, Chair of the Caricom Community and Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Caricom Secretary-General) We, members of the Caribbean community, join with voices raised all over the world to condemn the brutal killing of George Floyd, a 46 year old resident of Minnesota on May 25, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26 year old EMT shot in her home by police in Kentucky on March 13, 2020 and Tony McDade, 38 year old resident of Tallahassee shot by police on May 27 2020. 

There are cries worldwide for justice and peace stemming from the murder of George Floyd in the United States of America.

Andaiye was an extremely wise woman who was full of profound words and beliefs.

Some suggestions for His Excellency’s charm offensive [So most of you still have absolute confidence in the GECOM Iron Lady’s long count?

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes” is the chilling line from a rhyming couplet by William Shakespeare in his famous play “Macbeth,” that we whispered to each other along lit school corridors.

By Jeffrey Sommers MILWAUKEE – George Floyd’s death at the hands – and under the knee – of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has triggered a wave of peaceful protests and violent rioting in most major cities across the United States.

When most Guyanese agreed to participate in the recent elections, they were made to understand that it was ‘impossible’ for persons to vote for migrants who were out of the country on elections day and for those who have died.

By  Simon Johnson, Galit Alter, Tess Cameron, and Michael Mina Simon Johnson is co-chair of the COVID-19 Policy Alliance and a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Since late April there have been virtually no tourist arrivals in the Caribbean.

Yet there is also cause for alarm [relating to the COVID-19 pandemic].

Editor’s Note: This week’s diaspora column is                              dedicated to the memory of Andaiye (1942-2019) and Norman Girvan (1941-2014) This statement is issued by a group of Caribbean advocates and activists who participated in an open access online course, Society: Economy and Ecology (SEE) in the Caribbean: How Will We Organise to Live? Dedicated

Since measures were implemented to flatten the coronavirus curve in Guyana, schools have been engaged in distance education.

The Iron Lady’s long count, plus… Could it be political immaturity, inspired by an ageing mind, which prevents me from ever accepting the PPP’s Mohamed Irfaan as President of our Guyana Republic?

“While we need organizing that is anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist, our organizing must also be anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, and against all forms of exploitation, subordination and discrimination.”

‘Even if pre-election and election day processes go well, a flawed vote count or vote tabulation can fatally undermine the integrity and credibility of the electoral process and decrease public confidence and public acceptance of the results’ (Carter Center Disappointed Not to Be Able to Return to Guyana.

Towards the end of her life, my elderly mother’s favourite musical refrain, was adapted from the classic calypso “Jumbie Jamberee,” and she would ruefully admit, “Nora gal, you done dead already.”

Scientists and pharmaceutical companies around the world are hopeful that before long they may find an effective vaccine against COVID-19.  

By Faizal Deen Faizal Deen was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He immigrated as a child to Ottawa, Canada in 1977.

The U.S. Treasury Department last Friday imposed sanctions against the head of the Nicaraguan army and the country’s finance minister because of the Ortega regime’s increasing tendency towards authoritarianism and more specifically its ‘continued violations of basic human rights, blatant corruption, and widespread violence against the Nicaraguan people’.

The novel coronavirus disease is a threat regardless of ethnicity, sexual orientation, social class, profession or religion.