Dale Bisnauth
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Dale Arlington Bisnauth born 1936 in Guyana) is a Guyanese politician, writer and member of the clergy. His parents and grandparents were farmers. He attended the Unity Theological College of the West Indies (Jamaica), where he was trained for the ministry of the Guyana Presbyterian Church, having been converted from his Hindu background to Christianity at the age of fifteen. He read for a PhD in History at the University of the West Indies (Jamaica) where he had earlier obtained a BA.
He has been a minister of religion for nearly 35 years, has served in the regional and world ecumenical movements and has worked in Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados.
Bisnauth was secretary of the Caribbean Council of Churches and is currently Minister Of Labour Human Services & Social Security, having previously served as Minister of Education in the Government of Guyana.
In addition to The Settlement of Indians In Guyana: 1890-1930 (Peepal Tree, 2000), he is the author of A Short History of the Guyana Presbyterian Church (1979) and History of Religions in the Caribbean (1989).
His commitment to social justice is strongly reflected in The Settlement of Indians in Guyana which writes history from the perspective of the working classes and focuses on the contribution of those who came from the Indian lower castes to the making of a dynamic Indo-Guyanese culture.
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