Krishna Rampersaud                                           Poetry, Short Story and Writing

Itwaru, Arnold

Heydorn, Bernard

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

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 often consulted by large organizations and other internal audit members of academe and practitioners. He has more than twenty five years of internal auditing experience obtained in a wide range of industries both in the private and public sectors. Mr. Balkaran wrote six reference books on business and related areas including the world’s first dictionary on auditing published by Lexis-Nexis Canada and an international directory on accounting and business certifications published by Wiley. He is also a prolific writer on his native Guyana and has published another six books on the country.

Lal has had articles published widely across the globe including seven in the prestigious Internal Auditor magazine. In addition, he has done several internal audit and related workshops, seminars, and working luncheons in North America and the Caribbean.  He contributed a chapter to Professor Jeff Ridley’s new book Cutting Edge Internal Auditing that was recently published by Wiley in the UK.Mr. Balkaran has been a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) for over 22 years and is a Past President and current Board Member of the IIA-Toronto. He also sits on the Board of Research and Education Advisors of IIA Global, Internal Auditor Editorial Advisory Board, and is an IIA-Toronto Honorary Member. 

He was a member of the Internal Audit Advisory Board set up by the Treasury Board Secretariat in Ottawa to establish internal audit functions in federal agencies of the Government of Canada. He also started an IIA Chapter in his native Guyana in 2000.

PUBLICATIONS On Guyana

§         Immigrant#99840 and Canecutter#7074: The Story of an East Indian Family in Guyana (AuthorHouse: Bloomington, 2006).
§         Encyclopaedia of the Guyanese Amerindians: Including Other South American Native Terms (LBA Publications: Toronto, 2007).[World’s first encyclopaedia of the indigenous peoples of Guyana].
§         Bibliography of Guyana and Guyanese Writers (LBA Publications: Toronto, 2007).
§         The Rupununi Savannas of Guyana – A Visual Journey (AuthorHouse: Bloomington, 2005).
§         A Photojournal of the Guyanese Amerindians: Over 200 Photographs of the Everyday Life of the Nine Amerindian Tribes (LBA Publications: Toronto, 2007).
§         Timelines of Guyanese History 1498-2006: A Chronological Guide to Key Issues and Events in 30 Categories (LBA Publications: Toronto, 2007).

Two brand new DVDs on Guyana:
Professional created with sceneries of all geographic parts of Guyana from the coastland to the savannahs. And one on Amerindians.  Great South American and Latin American background music.  Title of DVDs:  (1) Guyana - A Photographic Journey; and   (2) A Photojournal of the Guyanese Amerindians.

Ray Williams

• Immigrated to Canada in 1970 and settled in the Greater Toronto Area.
• Retired from the Ontario Public Service’s Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services as a manager of Probation and Parole Services in 2003
• Has since devoted his time to writing short stories, poems, essays and travelogues.
• Is a member of ‘Writers’ circle of Durham Region’ (W.C.D.R. ) and ‘Writing is hard work’ (W.I.H.W.) writers’ groups.
• Some short stories, poems and travelogues published on the following websites:- http://www.riverlime.com look under “Village Voice,’ cross-linked with www.sts-tours.com look under “Ray’s Space.”
• Travels extensively