Salina Jane is a visual artist of Indo-Guyanese descent who creates art along the themes of heritage, identity and the experience of her family through indenture and their journey from India to Guyana to the UK. Throughout our childhood my siblings and I knew our parents were from Guyana; […] Click here to view original article at www.stabroeknews.com
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1 of 4 — Slideshow 2 of 4 — Slideshow 3 of 4 — Slideshow 4 of 4 — Slideshow Artist Gavin Benjamin pieces together an imagined future out of the shards of a reclaimed cultural legacy. Art by Gavin Benjamin The silhouette of the late rapper and entrepreneur […] Click here to view original article at www.wesa.fm
Christine King, 55, is an attorney and serves as President and CEO of the nonprofit Martin Luther King Jr. Economic Development Corporation for more than a decade. The organization has run an array of social programs ranging from delivering food to seniors to funding home improvements. Christine was born in Guyana. She grew up in the City of Miami, attending Allapattah Elementary School, Westview Middle School, and Miami Central Sr. High School. She has proudly…
Dear Editor, Jung Bahadur Singh was first named ‘Deenanath’ at birth, meaning ‘protector of the poor’. His father preferred the name Jung Bahadur, after a famous Nepali Prime Minister. However, quite prophetically he went on to become an advocate for marginalised colonial subjects in British Guyana. Funnily enough, his […] Click here to view original article at www.stabroeknews.com
What country can you visit, that is light years ahead of everyone else when it comes to diversity and inclusion? What’s the only country in South America where the official language is English? Where’s the only country in South America that is discovering oil at an unprecedented rate setting […] Click here to view original article at theogm.com
Flag of The Bahamas Image by jorono from Pixabay The Bahamas’ newly elected government is moving to repatriate more than 1,000 Haitian boat people who have made the dangerous crossing to the archipelago in recent weeks and authorities say they fear that more will come in the near future […] Click here to view original article at amsterdamnews.com
Standing from left to right is Mr. Lakram de Lima, Presidente Brand Manager Beepats; Mr. Jonathan Beepat, Executive Director Beepats; Ms. Tiffany Bennett, Advertising and Promotions coordinator Beepats Full press statement from Beepats: Beepats is proud to announce their new partnership with one of the world’s largest brewing companies […] Click here to view original article at newsroom.gy
By Chris Ramsaroop, Kevin Edmonds, Mark Chatarpal, Lotoya Haynes-Francis, Terry Roswell, former students of Arnold Itwaru in the Caribbean Studies Program at the University of Toronto, Canada. “…Men, like the forest grow in different lengths different shades Tall-tall tree guardian of futures your shade stretches far and wide like […] Click here to view original article at www.stabroeknews.com
UNICEF representative Nicolas Pron delivering his remarks virtually at the launch Fire, oil spills, drought, pollution, pandemics, and other natural and human-made hazards constantly threaten the stability of the education system all across the world and Guyana is no exception. Faced with these recurrent challenges, officials here have created […] Click here to view original article at newsroom.gy
DENVER, Sept. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — RE/MAX, LLC today announced it has closed the sale of Master Franchise Rights in Pakistan to American International Partners, LLC, owned by Muhammad Saleem, Rafay Qamar and Imran Gondal, three ambitious and experienced entrepreneurs. With the sale, RE/MAX, which already has a presence […] Click here to view original article at www.prnewswire.com