Daily Features

By Sophie Scherger BERLIN – Healthy soil is indispensable to life on Earth, sustaining nearly 60% of all living species.

By Carl Bildt NEW DELHI – In a lengthy address at the annual Valdai Discussion Club meeting this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to outline his view of the world.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana The November/December issue of the authoritative journal, Foreign Affairs, is devoted to the theme of ‘The Return of Total War’ – a new era of comprehensive conflict, such as is taking place in Lebanon, Palestine, and Ukraine.

Ask-the-Consul Installment 24-11 The Exchange Visa Program (J-1) provides many opportunities for foreign nationals to visit the United States to teach, study, conduct research, demonstrate special skills, or receive on-the-job training for periods ranging from a few weeks to several years. 

By Liane Schalatek WASHINGTON, DC – So far this year, floods, heat waves, droughts, storms, and wildfires have led to thousands of deaths, threatened the health and livelihoods of millions of people, and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage – at least $41 billion by June.

By Donald Rodney Part 4 – embracing disclosure This penultimate Part 4 and the final Part 5, will deal with the potential for overcoming any obvious malpractice in the procurement process arising from the unpacking of information from the two published findings of PPC, described in Part 1.

By Bruce Ackerman NEW HAVEN – It is easy to exaggerate Donald Trump’s defeat of Kamala Harris in the recent US presidential contest.

If you take the character of any man, it really is but the aggregate of tendencies, the sum total of the bent of his mind; you will find that misery and happiness are equal factors in the formation of that character.

By Lear Matthews Lear Matthews is Professor Emeritus and former Lecturer at University of Guyana.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – In June 2020, incursions by Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops into the fraught borderlands of India’s Ladakh region triggered bloody clashes that killed 20 Indian soldiers, plunged bilateral relations to their lowest point in decades, and led to a prolonged military standoff.

By Peter Singer SINGAPORE – In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, The New York Times reported on a clash of views between two Democratic members of Congress.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of GuyanaFormer UN Under-Secretary-General for Human Rights The Guyana Human Rights Association marks its forty-fifth anniversary this year and it is fitting to reflect on the contribution the GHRA has made to the history of Guyana.

By James K. Galbraith AUSTIN – As of this writing, Donald Trump has received about 75.1 million votes in the US presidential election, and Kamala Harris about 71.8 million.

By Donald Rodney Part 3D – language and discretion (Cont’d) This Part 3D concludes on discretion to be exercised when government selects criteria from the ‘list of six’ categories, and with the final item as unpacked from the two published findings of the PPC.

By Anders Åslund STOCKHOLM – Almost three years after Russia invaded Ukraine, the West’s financial sanctions have finally started to bite, triggering fierce infighting within the Kremlin over control of Russia’s central bank.

By Anton Allahar Following Donald Trump’s re-election to the US presidency, many wonder how such a flawed and vulgar human being could be sent back to the White House after his disastrous first four years.

There continues to be a peddling of the falsehood that the four forensic audits that I had undertaken in 2015 breached the Audit Act 2004 and the Procurement Act.

By Byron Blake Ambassador Byron Blake is former deputy permanent representative to the United Nations and former assistant secretary general of CARICOM.

By  Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – During the just-concluded US election campaign, I did not follow opinion polls, pore over “evidence-based” predictions, or read “expert” analyses of the race.

Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Column 143 Introduction The world continues to process the stunning outcome of Tuesday’s U.S.