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Guyana’s First People

Guyana’s First People

Just a brief departure and respite for TRAKKER readers – from the “serious” issues, the politics, the economics, the crime and the disasters. Here instead – in a few paragraphs… Read more »

Getting Power, Serving People

Getting Power, Serving People

Oh that much longed-for, or sought-after condition, or status. My old Oxford provides fourteen definitions for the noun (and verb) that is power! From “ability to do or act”, to… Read more »

American Immigration Law, Guyanese Organizations

American Immigration Law, Guyanese Organizations

Just recently I explored the phenomenon of REMITTANCES, especially actual cash transfers, in terms of both the vital, necessary assistance these gifts bring to needy families still in countries of… Read more »

Remittances for Christmas and Beyond – From Guyana’s Diaspora

Remittances for Christmas and Beyond – From Guyana’s Diaspora

I wish all TRAKKER readers and fans good health, peace and progress for 2012. And I wish that the new Guyana government would copy a page from the Alliance For… Read more »

The Legend of the Kumaka Tree – and Roraima

The Legend of the Kumaka Tree – and Roraima

(ADAPTED From a version by Sis Rose Magdalene) The CARIBS of Guyana never lived on earth’s land, long, long long ago.  They lived in a place way up in the… Read more »

Meet The Living Dead !

Meet The Living Dead !

From Indian-Guyanese folklore come the tales of the Living Dead.  This is a relatively little-known folk-being, or better described as a FOLK-SPIRIT, amongst the other more popular folk-figures in the… Read more »

Brown Baby, White Santa

Brown Baby, White Santa

So we have ourselves reminded of the well-known “reason for the season” -the BIRTH of the Christ Child to a rather mis-matched couple – matured carpenter Joseph and Virgin Teenager,… Read more »

The Paramountcy of Guyana’s Parliment – Managing the Majority

The Paramountcy of Guyana’s Parliment – Managing the Majority

Admittedly, this piece was prepared for another journal, but I feel strongly that it should be shared with TRAKKER’s readers. I’ve persuaded myself to make this two–cents contribution to the… Read more »

Other Sides To Our Christmas

Other Sides To Our Christmas

No I don’t want to, nor can I ever, put any damper on this wonderful, now all- pervasive festival of celebration of the Christ-Child’s Birth, the Christian Festival NEARLY EVERY… Read more »

Winners and Losers on Monday Night

Winners and Losers on Monday Night

So why should there be winners or losers when Guyana’s Election Polling Booths finally close this Monday night? After all you don’t have to be actually IN a new government… Read more »