Suriname Attends OIC Uganda Meeting
The 35th meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) kicked off on June 18 in Ugandan…
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Shahabudin Mohamed McDoom: December 29th 1945 – March 8th 2008
McDoom Family Book Introduction ← Click to download Shahabudin Mohamed McDoom passed away in London on March 8th 2008 at the age of 62. Since…
A SHORT HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF AN INDIAN INDENTURED LABOURER IN GUYANA: HAJI MCDOOM
The following is the introduction to a privately-published book entitled, ‘A Short History and Genealogy of an Indian Indentured Labourer in Guyana: Haji McDoom and…
Prayer in the Surinam-Javanese Diasporic Experience
Prayer in the Surinam-Javanese Diasporic Experience The Surinam-Javanese community in the Netherlands is divided over the question of the prayer direction; some perform their prayers…
Research: Guyana Junction, globalisation, localisation, and the production of East Indianness
Guyana Junction, globalisation, localisation, and the production of East Indianness Guyana Junction involves the analysis of the construction of East Indian ethnic and religious distinction…
Canadian Donation to benefit Guyanese Orphans
Georgetown May 30th 2008:- The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) today received a CDN $30,000 donation from the Islamic Foundation of Toronto, Canada. During…
Guyana: Still no rotation of ambassadors
Over three years have passed since the government spoke about the need to rotate ambassadors, yet that has not happened. It was merely a pretext…
Gool Mohamed Khan father of the two British Guiana Begums
Deen Ameerullah is the great grandson of Gool Mohamed Khan. The latter was born in 1853 in a small village of Moorni of the Nasruddin…
Gripping tale of Indian worker abroad in Suriname
Large-scale emigration of unskilled labourers from British India took place in the 19th century. These labourers, who were hardly making both ends meet and living…
Two British Guiana Begums made history in the founding of Pakistan
Two British Guiana Begums made history in the founding of Pakistan It is indeed amazing that despite a conservative and conformist background as could have…