Matthew French Young was born in Mabaruma Hill in the North West District of British Guiana in 1905, the son of a Scotsman who settled there in the 1880s, and planted citrus, ground provision and rubber trees. Matthew Young began his career as an assistant on a diamond prospecting survey in 1925, and for the [...]

Kampta Karran has a distinguished record in the service of local publishing in Guyana, where he edited and published the journal Offerings and was active in working towards a resolution to Guyana’s ethnic conflicts. He currently lectures at the University of Birmingham. He edited the anthology Race and Ethnicity in Guyana: An Introductory Reader

Laxmi Kallicharan was born in Guyana. She was one of the finest pioneers of Indo-Guyanese cultural awareness. Her use of radio and television for cultural promotion was innovative. She also organized and presented cultural programmes, the first being Lala Rukh. She staged her first show in the early 1970s when there was considerable resistance within [...]

Meiling Jin was born in Guyana in 1956. Her parents left there at the height of the racial conflicts of 1964 and came to London. She writes of her initial unhappiness in England, the persecution she and her sister suffered as the only Chinese children in her school. Her salvation came at the age of [...]

Janet Jagan (nee Rosenberg) was born in 1923 in Chicago into a radical Jewish family. She met Cheddi Jagan, then studying as a dentist in the USA, in 1943 and they were married in the same year. She followed him back to British Guiana (he had gone home earlier to win his family over to [...]