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· July, 2012

Stories about Guyana from July, 2012

Guyana: Olympic Dreams

Guyana-Gyal explains how the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London “remind[ed] [her] to stay true to [her] dreams, no matter how mad they might sound to them people...

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco
31 July 2012

Guyana: Linden Protests

Imran Khan explores the roots of the Linden Protests and concludes that the recent electricity rate hike is merely the latest in a long series of “economic and social hardships”...

Written by Matthew Hunte
31 July 2012

Guyana: Editorial Ethics

Ruel Johnson responds to a recent controversial Guyana Chronicle editorial which asserted that black youth in Guyana were socialised to be resentful of Indians : “First of all, editorials are the highest form of...

Written by Matthew Hunte
10 July 2012

Guyana: Being Black

Imran Khan addresses the issue of racism in Guyana, saying: “[It] has become a country in which one is privileged to be Indo-Guyanese and cursed to Afro-Guyanese. It is not...

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco
9 July 2012

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