The past is prologue: Guyana, deportees, and third country nationals
By Percy C. Hintzen Percy C. Hintzen is a Guyanese sociologist specializing in postcolonial political economy.
Diaspora Voices
Welcome to Diaspora Voices, which picks up from the In the Diaspora
column which for eighteen (18) years had found a home in the former Stabroek News. Diaspora Voices is excited to begin this new chapter with Kiskadee Watch, offering reflections and commentaries on Guyana, the Caribbean and the diaspora.
For Eusi: Two Memories
Home By Rishee Parasram and Michelle Asantewa Rishee Parasram was a teacher and frontline activist of the WPA from Courbane Park, Annandale, and worked very closely as an organizer of the East Coast Demerara Region with Eusi Kwayana.
Can Guyana’s Natural Resource Fund protect its oil wealth?
By Benjamin Outar Benjamin Outar is an economics student at the University of Toronto’s Trinity College, focusing on development economics and the intersection of the public and private sectors.
A Century of “Listening to the Land”: A Tribute to Eusi Kwayana
Nigel Westmaas And so, Eusi Kwayana has passed, leaving us to reckon with the immensity of a life that helped shape Guyana.
Memories
By Harry Husbands Harry Husbands is a man of many parts. He was an educator, trade union leader, business executive, politician, senator, radio talk show host and a newspaper columnist.
Bringing reproductive health research home through art
By Pere DeRoy Pere DeRoy is a Reproductive Health Policy Researcher & Analyst Bring knowledge back to the community It was the third and final night of the Redefining Childbearing and Pregnancy-Management Care Exhibition at Black Magenta in downtown Georgetown.
Remembering Jan Shinebourne
By Jeremy Poynting Jeremy Poynting, founder of Peepal Tree Press, pays tribute to the late Jan Shinebourne.
Who Writes the Judgment
The Airport Gate The Acting Appointment The Algorithm Professor Justice Courtney Abel Professor of Law (Legal Practice), University of Guyana; retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Belize; Overseas Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple Delivered as a panel presentation in Session 9, Current Tensions Between Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law, at the Annual Conference of the Commonwealth Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association, Kingston, Jamaica, on Wednesday 23 September 2026.
Hardears: Or how not to listen to our better selves
By George Mentore George Mentore is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, and author Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences: Themes on Waiwai Social Being (2005).
The Indigenous reality in Guyana: Becoming architects of our own future
By Crystal Atkinson, Kim Fredricks and Medino Abraham Crystal Atkinson, a Lokono and Warrau leader from Santa Rosa (Region 1), advocates for Indigenous rights, culture, and language.
Fidel Castro’s 100 birthday commemorated in Guyana and worldwide
By Khadidja Bâ Khadidja Bâ is a Guyanese journalist recognized for her human-interest reporting, investigative features, and coverage of local governance and social issues in Guyana.
What’s with the Eye Pass? How the legacy of colonialism continues to divide our nation and undermine rights and conservation in the Guyana hinterland
By Melanie McTurk Melanie McTurk is a Guyanese tourism and conservation leader whose work spans cultural heritage, biodiversity and community development.
Count the chairs, Not the seats! Women and Corporate Leadership in the Caribbean
By Prof C. Justin Robinson, Pro Vice Chancellor and Campus Principal, UWI Five Islands Campus The 2026 academic year is upon us and one the realities of UWI is that in every 100 students roughly 70 are female.
Open Letter to the Government of Jamaica: The accumulation of unbearable humiliations
Editor’s Note: This open letter was drafted in June by Jamaican academics regarding a series of recent incidents that demonstrate rampant state abandonment, anti-Blackness, and classism pervading Jamaican society and politics.
Joint Civil Society Statement on the COI and other matters of national importance related to the MV Barima tragedy
This Joint Civil Statement on the MV Barima COI and related matters was endorsed by the Guyanese Organization of Indigenous Peoples; Red Thread Crossroads Women’s Center; Transparency Institute Guyana Inc.;
Lunsford T. Bowen at 100: A Life of Service to Guyana
By Afua Aseda Afua Aseda is a Guyanese writer who lives in Boston Editor’s Note: This week’s column celebrates the quiet life of a centenarian.
The Guyanization of America and the Americanization of Guyana
By Percy C. Hintzen Percy C. Hintzen is a Guyanese sociologist specializing in postcolonial political economy.
Cuba on the brink: Implosion, explosion or continuation?
By Anton Allahar Anton Allahar is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario These are the questions of the moment.
What if Washington wanted one of our islands? Chagos and Emancipation’s unfinished business
By Prof C. Justin Robinson Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal, The University of the West Indies, Five Islands Campus With August 1 here, imagine an island with a church, a cemetery and children running beneath coconut trees.
Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous
By Arundhati Roy Editor’s Note: This article was first published on June 22, 2026 by The Wire, and is reprinted in Kiskadee Watch with generous permission of the author.
