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By Bertrand Ramcharan As South Africa was bleeding under apartheid, Alan Paton wrote his historic novel, Cry, the Beloved Country.

A moment will come at the end of June when the European Union and Britain will hold a virtual high-level meeting to decide whether enough progress has been made to meet their agreed deadline for a post-Brexit trade relationship.

What has transpired in this sister Caricom country since the March 2, 2020 election has basically been a circus, and it is indeed a shame that up to this stage a credible count of the votes has not been completed.                                                    Jamaica Observer Since 21 December 2018, Guyana has not had a democratically elected government in place to manage the affairs of the country and to restore it to a state of normalcy.

Marsha Hinds is an advocate and the President of the National Organization of Women of Barbados.

Disturbing occurrences like the interracial conflicts of the 1960s, the Rupununi rebellion, the assassination of Walter Rodney, local terrorism in the form of massacres and assassinations, systematic oppression, the drug trade and corruption in government are all part of Guyana’s history.

“Unwaged housework is the productive labor without which there would be nothing else: no other labor, no workers, no economy, no society.”

(Re)-Count me out! I noticed, just recently, that the accomplished singer-composer-columnist, Mr Dave Martins returned to the issue of this country’s diversity welcoming its positives for what is sometimes a fractured society.

“I have never seen a more transparent effort to alter the result of an election.”

Over the last week of the recount process, APNU+AFC has published a document claiming that the March 2020 elections process has been marred by  ‘clear and unmistakable patterns of irregularities, discrepancies and worse’, e.g.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – As India’s 1.3 billion people struggle to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the country’s 28 states stands head and shoulders above the rest.

A day will come when a vaccine is available, the World Health Organisation confirms there are no new coronavirus cases, and our lives return to normal.

According to a most recent report on climate change, if global warming continues unchecked, by the year 2070 – just 50 years from now – the heat will be such that up to three billion people – almost 40 percent of the current world’s population – will be adversely affected by ‘warmer than conditions deemed suitable for human life to flourish’. 

By Dr John Deep Ford Dr. John Deep Ford is Ambassador of Guyana to the World Trade Organization and Food and Agricultural Organization  The COVID pandemic has once again exposed the vulnerability of the CARICOM region’s food security.

There has been much speculation about the events that followed the March 2nd general elections.

The economic fallouts of COVID-19 have already begun to be felt by the people.

The proud descendants of those First Coolies Okay, okay friends. You’re absolutely correct.

The Mesoamerican Long Count is an ancient, non-repeating calendar used by some pre-Columbian peoples, including the Mayans.

The last time the West placed sanctions upon Guyana, contrary to what some of its contemporary supporters say, the PNC regime caved and set the stage for Desmond Hoyte’s more free market approach.

By  William A. Haseltine CAMBRIDGE – Like surfers looking out for the next big breaker before the first one has passed, epidemiologists and public-health officials in the United States are bracing themselves for a fresh surge of COVID-19 infections later this year.

What might the shape of post COVID-19 economic recovery look like?