David Dabydeen: Guyana don
Berbice, Demerara. East Indian, European. Massa’s son, indentured labourer’s child. David Dabydeen and I are firmly from different...
Bernadette Persaud: “I’m trying to show that here is beauty”
I was born in Berbice, but my father was a teacher, and we moved about a lot. In fact, at one time he was stationed in Linden a mining town...
Mash up the place: Mashramani in Guyana
Trinidad’s Carnival celebrations may be the Caribbean’s single most massive cultural event. There’s no escaping the energy, the buzz,...
Remembering Cheddi Jagan
In the early 1960s, US President John F. Kennedy considered him a dangerous Marxist in the mould of Fidel Castro. But by the early 1990s,...
Gaiutra Bahadur: enigmas and arrivals
On 4 November, 1903, a British merchant ship named The Clyde pulls into the mouth of the Demerara River, the harbour of Georgetown, capital...
Biodiversity bonanza: Guyana’s Rupununi
Guyana is one of the few places on earth where large tracts of natural habitat are still intact. And the biggest Caricom nation is...
Far Essequibo
Where the Essequibo meets the Atlantic, a great tongue of muddy brown water extends for miles into the ocean. More than half the landmass...
Guyana’s Forest Economics
Blue poison-dart frogs. Emerald tree boa constrictors. Black caimans. Three-toed sloths. Regular ole jaguars. These are merely five of the...
