Welcome to PAKARAIMA, the Guyanese Canadian Writers and Artists Association homepage. Known as PAKARAIMA, the Association derived its name from the famous mountain range that encircles the great Roraima mountain, shared by South America's tripartite, viz. Guyana, Venezuela and Brazil, we are writers and poets who live in Canada and have published works on varied subjects.

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Narine Dat Sookram

February 21st, 2010 · No Comments

Narine Dat Sookram is an emerging Poet who received the 2009 Pakaraima Award for his poem “Home Away from Home”.  He is currently working on putting together his first collection of poems for publication.

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David Johnson

December 6th, 2009 · No Comments

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Colin Ninvalle

December 6th, 2009 · No Comments

Stereotypes  (2004)

Mr. Ninvalle shows us the manner in which stereotypes concentrate, and indeed mutate, both within and among a combination of areas of ordinary social life and social-scientific studies: Everyday social practices, Race and Ethnic interactions and, in particular, known alternative discourses such as Marxism, Feminism and Afro-centrism. The tool he uses, “symbolic equations”, […]

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Norman Datt

December 6th, 2009 · No Comments

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Veda Mohabir

December 6th, 2009 · No Comments

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Shakoor Manraj, Q.C.

November 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Shakoor Manraj, Q.C. has written five books - four law books and the last one,
In Pursuit of Justice, his memoirs of 50 years of active practice as a Lawyer.
To obtain a copy, contact Shakoor Manraj at 954-435-5971
or by email at: asmlaw725@hotmail.com

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Lal Balkaran

June 25th, 2009 · No Comments

Lal Balkaran, MBA, CGA, CIA

Lal Balkaran is a Certified General Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, and holds an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School.
He is currently a Senior Manager in Ernst and Young’s Risk Advisory Services with a focus on Internal Audit.  He is perceived as a leading member of the internal audit profession and is […]

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Ray Williams

February 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off

Ray Williams was born in Georgetown Guyana, from where he departed in 1963 to attend university in Chicago.

Immigrated to Canada in 1970 and settled in the Greater Toronto Area.
Retired from the Ontario Public Service’s Ministry of Community Safety […]

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Khalleel Mohamed

February 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off

Name: Khalleel Mohamed
Place of birth: Maryville, Leguan, Essequibo, Guyana
Employment history: Schoolteacher, Assistant Archivist -
National Archives, Second Secretary to Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Lecturer in West Indian and Guyanese history at University of Guyana.
Academic Qualification: Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts -
Guyanese history.
Author of: 1. Terror Island - mystery, suspense adventure for children between ages of 8 […]

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Peter Jailall

February 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off

Peter Jailall, a teacher, storyteller, and poet, was born in Guyana in 1944. He has read his poetry in schools, libraries, and universities across Canada and in the Caribbean. An avid supporter of human rights and social justice, he expresses his compassion and passion for human values through poetry and stories. He currently teaches with […]

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