AS a child, I was introduced to the beliefs that enveloped the world of the last days of British Guiana and early Guyana. Story …

THE “MAAFA”, held yearly by the Afro-Guyanese community and guided by the rise and fall of the tide, is a significant commemoration rooted in …

I WAS brought up in a home that cannot boast of being rich, but one that addressed its needs within an environment of familiar …

WE must reconstruct our understanding of the needs that are necessary to cultivate the platforms that will contribute to the construct of family life, …

REGARDLESS of the guard towers we erect, the uninvited of our age will present themselves and stare at our expression of rejection with defiance. …

THERE were fewer real domestic stories where extreme violence was used, to my memory, in my early youth. Some had fatal outcomes, but there …

WHAT must be understood was that the era of emancipation and the endeavours of the African were not met with admiration and applause, but …

THE overall attitude of post-emancipation can be translated into several expressions. Among the indentured peoples that the English Plantocracy embraced were the Portuguese, who …

THE majority of the planter class viewed the efforts of the emancipated African descendants with envious contempt. The business of plantation success lay with …

EMANCIPATION was not a continuous celebration for the formerly enslaved African population, but rather a challenge of survival. Thus, they persisted, carrying the memory …