A FEW months before Professor Brij Lal passed away late last year, his edited book, Girmitiyas: The making of their memory-keepers from the Indian …

I must admit that when I first came across the literature on Devonshire Castle uprising in 1872 in Devonshire, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), Essequibo, while …

LAST Tuesday, I watched and listened with much delight to the discussion/exchange between Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo (BJ) and Glenn Lall (GL) on the …

EVERY ethnic group in Guyana, a land of six ethnicities, has its own cultural celebrations, with some crossing over, albeit not with equal recognition …

THE recently concluded conference on an emerging apartheid state in Guyana by a group of ambitious African Guyanese deserves some analyses, despite how fragmentary …

THERE has been, in the past two years, an explosion of individuals on social media platforms parading and priding themselves as commentators, activists, and …

THE promise and sights of infrastructural development, namely, the building of hospitals, hotels, bridges, schools, roads, gas to shore and the list goes on, …

THERE is no precise date as to when Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) arrived in Trinidad, Guyana, and Suriname. The basic understanding is that some arrived …

IN my two earlier columns, I examined how the AFC declined and eventually decided to leave the coalition. I will now suggest what will …

ON August 1, 1838, the British Government finally abolished slavery in all its colonies and called upon other western colonial powers to follow suit. …