“Independence” within Coloniality
As we move on after our week-long euphoria of celebrating our 60th anniversary of our independence, we have to re-examine the substance of that...
Basis of Creole culture
There are some in Guyana who make an automatic equation between economic power and political power. The real world is not so simple… even...
Guyanese Narratives and Independence
Another May 26; another Independence Day. But are we any closer to becoming a nation than on that day in 1966 when we received...
Unsilencing Wismar’s Ethnic Cleansing of May 25-26
On May 26, Guyana will commemorate the “independence” that was given to the PNC Government by Britain in 1966, after engineering the latter’s victory...
Venezuela’s Claim: Political, Not Legal
Even though Mallet-Prevost’s posthumous allegation, released in 1949, that the 1899 Arbitral Award on the Venezuelan Border was marred by collusion between the British...
On Critchlow and the Colonisation Scheme (Pt I)
For Labour Day, May 1, Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow, founder of our first trade union, the BG Labour Union (BGLU), in 1919, was rightly extolled....
We Guyanese at sixty
As we approach the 60th anniversary of our independence, we reiterate that unquestionably, we, the citizens of Guyana, must see it as a “common...
Asha Bhosle and the New Era
Last Saturday, my family and I were in Essequibo on a pilgrimage to Badrinath Ashram, with its mammoth Lord Shiva murti, when we heard...
Police Reform… Again
Against the background of trenchant criticism by some members of the opposition demanding that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) be reformed to perform its...
Indentured immigration and its aftermath
April 18 will mark the 109th anniversary of the last ship – the SS Ganges – bringing indentured Indians to the then British Guiana....