The [Caribbean] Community calls on all concerned to ensure a credible and transparent recount process in order to provide legitimacy to any government, which would be sworn in as a result.
By Kamala Kempadoo Kamala Kempadoo is Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, and is the 2020-2021 Craig M.
‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ is an autobiography by the late Maya Angelou describing her early life.
Guyana’s political-bullyism master-class What’s your preference to describe today’s national holiday?
In every dark cloud there is a silver lining, or so we’ve been taught to believe.
We played endless outdoor games as lithe children in South Georgetown, running around in the setting sunshine with our bare hands blackened from hours of slicing worn bicycle tyres into jagged joined lengths for Chinese jump rope and skipping.
By Gordon Brown LONDON – “This is not a discrete one-off episode,” Wellcome Trust head Jeremy Farrar has warned.
No doubt with an eye on winning political support, during the 2005 flood, the PPP/C government deployed some of its political personnel to deliver food hampers etc.,
The challenge that is now facing almost every Caribbean nation is how best to recover the tourism economy without which future economic growth and sustainable tax revenues will be all but impossible.
By Myoung-hee Kim SEOUL – South Korea experienced one of the world’s largest initial outbreaks of COVID-19 outside China.
By Angelique V. Nixon Angelique V. Nixon is a Bahamas-born, Trinidad-based writer, artist, and scholar-activist.
We can no longer exploit the resources of this earth — the trees, the water, and other natural resources — without any care for coming generations.
Children can astonish and inspire us with their insight. When unspoiled by the inevitable afflictions of life, they are a reflection of the divine within all of us.
-Sad unending power-lust Even as I feel that this which you now read should be my final lamentation of regret over the diminished status of a Party I once embraced, I know that my peers, the age-group oldsters – still tribal and loyal will fume at my derogation, disparagement of “my old party” – the People’s National Congress (PNC).
By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Arjun Jayadev, and Achal Prabhala Joseph E.
By Ramesh Persaud, CEO of The Institute ‘of Private Enterprise Development Limited Small businesses are usually in excess of 95% of the number of all firms in a country and recruit more than 85% of most countries’ labour force.
By Josep Borrell Fontelles, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission A few years ago, the European Union placed the concept of resilience at the centre of its Global and Security Strategy.
Former American Ambassador-at-large, Professor Stephen Sestanovich can never forget his experiences at the Ukraine presidential elections in 2004.
‘The consensual principle of democracy is in several ways the opposite to the majoritarian vision and emphasizes that the political institutions should encourage, in the extreme, mandate the inclusion of as many political per spectives as possible.
It is hard to imagine an action more likely to accelerate the decline of US influence in the world than deciding in the middle of a global pandemic to attack the one body that is coordinating the global fight against it.
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