Guyana Review

Since his election to office as President of Guyana following the March 2020 general elections, Guyana’s Head of State, Irfaan Ali, has been having the time of his life on the international stage, His election to office having coincided, roughly, with Guyana’s emergence as an oil-producing country, his credentials to speak for Guyana – and even in some cases, the Caribbean – on matters of food security, Caribbean business, and the region’s economy, and on attracting investment to a region that had long been ignored by the international business community, appear sound.

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By Karen Abrams MBA To say that Guyana is poised for rapid economic development over the next decade would be an understatement.

Part of the significance of the staging of the recent 25 x 2025 forum in Guyana was the sense of urgency which the region is now compelled to attach to its food security in the wake of its shocking and wholly inexcusable revelation that its extra-regional food import bill is probably in excess of US$6 billion.

Venezuela looks different in 2022. Some Venezuelans are once again making weekend plans.

It would be entirely fair to say that the ‘arrival’ here of the coronavirus pandemic took the country’s education system by storm.

By Dr. Terrence Blackman & David F. Roberts A Report from the Guyana Investment Seminar, Carlton House, London The war in Russia and the attendant geopolitical energy issues plaguing Europe and the rest of the world bear directly on the energy and food security of the Caribbean and Latin America.

By Mareike Kroll and Peter Rosenbluth Background Mercury is a highly toxic metal that persists in the environment.

A. Missouri Sherman-Peter Ambassador and Permanent Observer of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to the United Nations.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) joins with the people of Barbados in mourning the passing of the Honourable George Lamming OCC.

It was always likely that a change in Guyana’s economic trajectory arising out of the country’s oil discoveries and the opportunities that were bound to derive therefrom would attract investors from across the world, not least from amongst the countries comprising the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

The socio-economic impacts of The COVID-19 pandemic in the Caribbean are non-neutral, affecting some persons and entities more than others, with vulnerable groups including children, youth, women and girls, the poor, informal sector workers and small businesses, being among the hardest hit.

Part 2 By Dr Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith Water, water everywhere Guyana’s current aqua condition calls to mind the memorable line in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s classic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: “Water, water, everywhere.”

The COVID-19 has resulted in schools shut all across the world.

Strengthening safety nets The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting the economic vulnerability of some segments of society.  In most emerging markets segments of the population do not have access to health coverage.

By Sonali Das and Philippe Wingender Recessions wreak havoc and the damage is often long-lived.

Foreign Trade Guyana’s Agent to the ICJ & Adviser on Borders Introduction I was asked to outline the importance of trade to the Caribbean and to make a few comments on the implications of that issue for the prospects of improved cooperation between the Caribbean and the USA.

During the past 50 plus years, governments in the English speaking Caribbean have recognized the need for a regional research system to meet the increasingly complex challenges of agriculture.

Scott B. MacDonald  August 5, 2021 Global Americans Contributor These words were spoken by Eric Williams on his first day as prime minister of the newly independent Trinidad and Tobago.

Part 1 By Dr Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith Northern South America is heating up, and not just because of the massive oil fields that have been discovered offshore Guyana since May 2015.