TYPICALLY, one starts off the new year elegantly by making plans, setting goals, and hoping for the best. I am, however, hesitant to gravitate …

AS we move closer to the end of 2021, there are umpteen issues one can reflect on. Considering the global realities, the pandemic is …

NEXT week marks three years (2018) since the Alliance For Change (AFC) back-bencher Charrandas Persaud voted in favour of the PPP Opposition-sponsored No-Confidence Motion …

I HAVE been researching, writing, and teaching about Girmitiyas – Indian indentured servants who were brought from India to the Caribbean to substitute slave …

I WAS researching my birth village of No. 72, Upper Corentyne, known also as “Hong Kong/Chinese Field/China land” with the intent to write an …

IN 1984, I found myself living in the western state of Utah in the United States, where, after more than two decades of being …

LAST week, in this space, I addressed class dynamics among rural Indians. I will now address the transformation of class relations in rural Guyana …

IN my conservation some two months ago with Professor Ruben Gowricharan, a Surinamese- academic based in The Netherlands, I was struck by two fundamental …

THE discovery of coffins with skeletal remains along the Corentyne foreshore at No 71 Village might not have sent shockwaves across Guyana but has …

BETWEEN 1845 and 1917, the British Government allowed sugar planters in its overseas colony of Trinidad to transport an estimated 143,939 indentured labourers from …