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Dear Editor, Guyana has many persons who have outstanding histories in their own spheres of operation. Unfortunately, we do not seem to be producing enough historians who can bring their stories to life. That would be a great contribution, because ...

Editor: The Caribbean-American Coalition (CAC) has publicly issued a recommendation to resettle Afghan refugees in Guyana. The names, appended to this seemingly paper organisation, based in Queens, New York, are: Ashook Ramsaran and Dr. Dhanpaul Narine. These two elderly gentlemen, who ...

Dear Editor: After reading your article — “Jeffers, Mark Leave Toronto Catholic School Board’s African Canadian Committee Over Differences” — on pridenews.ca, dated April 23, 2021, I wish to respond, by providing you with the definitions of modern racism, systemic ...

Re: Roger Gibbs’s letter in Pride News Magazine on May 14, 2021 (The Toronto Caribbean Carnival: Outdated Arts Development Approach? – Pride News) Editor: Gibb’s article is interwoven with fact and fiction. His blend of fact and fiction may lead ...

Re: Roger Gibbs’s letter in Pride News Magazine on May 14, 2021 (The Toronto Caribbean Carnival: Outdated Arts Development Approach? – Pride News) Editor: Thanks for sharing an ex-FMC (Festival Management Committee) board member’s perspective. The author appears not to understand the ...

Editor: The Toronto Caribbean Carnival (TCC), also known as, Caribana, at its core, is a festival of masquerade or street theatre. The steelpan and calypso/soca components of TCC, though artistically very significant for the festival’s unique brand, command far less ...

Greetings: As the driver of the vehicle that stopped the dump truck, I am disappointed with the coverage of the dump-truck/mini cooper incident, and feel they’ve missed the mark, completely. The issue that should be highlighted in these stories are ...

The Editor, Beyond a shadow of a doubt, the University of the West Indies (UWI) is an ethnically-biased academic institution of teaching and learning. For three days, every year, in the multi-ethnic society, the Faculty of Humanities and Education at ...

The Editor: Like me, the Caribbean, and the rest of the world, must have been shocked on hearing the news, two weeks ago, that the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Trinidad and Tobago, would train 20,000 Guyanese, over ...

Editor: A country cannot develop if it is relying, solely, on foreign investments and imported human capital. As a country, we can no longer think in terms of comparative advantage, cause on every measure, Jamaica has failed. As long as ...