From Mecca to Guyana: The Ever-Living Praise of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
As Muslims in Guyana gather to celebrate the birth of Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, it is impossible to ignore the magnitude of his presence in human history.
Articles by Nazim Baksh
No Reproach Upon You Today
According to traditional accounts of the Conquest of Mecca by Muslim historians, the Prophet Muhammad addressed his enemies with words echoing Prophet Joseph in the Qur’an: “No reproach shall be upon you today. Go, for you are free.”
Before We Convict One of Our Brightest Jurists
Hold the CCJ accountable, but allow the facts to emerge. When confidence in courts is casually undermined, it is not one judge alone who suffers; the entire architecture of Caribbean justice is put at risk.
What Emancipation Still Demands
President Ali’s appeal for us to avoid suspicion and enmity is worth underscoring. It speaks to the civic lessons of emancipation.
A Requiem for What Was Written at Sea
In the wake of the MV Barima tragedy, as the waters off Guyana’s coast yielded body after body, the instinct has been to ask why. Why this vessel, why that night, why these lives.
The Tel Aviv-Port of Spain Fallacy: Unmasking Zionist Lobbying in Trinidad and Tobago
There is a particular kind of intellectual dishonesty that dresses itself up as scholarship, and Nicholas Jagdeo has perfected it.
At Sixty, Guyana Pauses to Ask the Hardest Question: Are We One People?
at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, the Ethnic Relations Commission convened a different kind of national conversation, asking whether the people being transformed are being transformed together.
On Sacrifice and Nation-Building
As Guyana marks its Independence and Eid-ul-Adha, remember that Prophet Abraham is described as a nation because he embodied the moral qualities from which nations are made. If we want a Guyana that is prosperous and strong, united and patriotic, respected and resilient, then we too must become a people willing to give up what weakens us to build what ultimately uplifts us.
Guyana at The Hague: A Nation Finds Its Voice
I hope that when the ICJ judgment comes, it will grant Guyanese of every generation the quiet, everyday freedom to say “Essequibo is ah we own” without fear or qualification.
The Ripples of a Distant War
For a small, newly oil‑rich country like Guyana, our ‘sound fundamentals’ rest on global markets and shipping lanes that are suddenly less predictable.