Daily Features

By Chris Ramsaroop & Kevin Edmonds Chris Ramsaroop is an organizer with Justicia for Migrant Workers and an instructor in the Caribbean Studies Program at the University of Toronto.

By Deodat Maharaj In my last commentary, I outlined the major challenges we face due to Covid-19.

While Guyana’s  GDP growth rate is expected to reach unprecedented levels this year because of the commencement of crude oil production, three events will almost certainly have an adverse effect on such growth.

A short trip downtown the day after the curfew was implemented a couple of weeks ago, was gloomy.

“Thanks to the President’s Leadership…” PNC War room: Dire concerns, challenges Compared to the real or contrived confidence, exuberance and positive positions regarding the polls before March 02, this first war-room emergency session since election day was sombre, somewhat gloomily uncertain.

Despite once being touted as “the breadbasket of the Caribbean,” and recognized today as a food secure nation, many Guyanese still suffer from hunger and undernourishment.

Part 87   Introduction According to the international press, Guyana will be the fastest growing economy in 2020.

Married for 53 happy years, Guyanese-born Abdul and Tazroon Wahab were inseparable in life.

Guyana’s electoral fiasco may have overshadowed the other major crisis which it faces, the COVID–19 pandemic.

In his address to the nation after the 1964 elections, which brought his People’s National Congress (PNC) to government in coalition with the United Force, Forbes Burnham made an impassioned presentation about race/ethnicity in Guyana.

By Sireesha Bobbili and Ruth Rodney Sireesha Bobbili and Ruth Rodney were UN Women consultants who developed the qualitative research component of the Women’s Health and Life Experiences Survey in Guyana.

We’d also like to commend Guyana’s High Court for clearing the way for a nationwide recount of that country’s recent national elections as well.

We live in a time of heightened fear and uncertainty. For those of us who plan ahead as a past time, we might feel that our objectives and timelines are becoming more and more irrelevant.

“Stay Home! Stay Home!” What Home? Look friends, very recently I’ve been telling myself – not always convincingly- that the People’s National Congress (PNC) and GECOM’s Secretariat under former Officer Lowenfield, have won!

By Erik Berglöf, Gordon Brown, and Jeremy Farrar Erik Berglöf, a former chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is Professor and Director of the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

It must be obvious to the vast majority of the Guyanese that if the coalition government had won the 2020 elections, the festivities would have been substantial, long over, the PPP/C left to lick its wounds, and given the weakness of the health system, the national focus, would have been – as it should be – exclusively on the coronavirus crisis. 

By Deodat Maharaj Caribbean countries are amongst the most vulnerable on the planet being particularly susceptible to shocks including economic and those associated with natural disasters.

Speaking recently in in New York, the state Governor, Andrew Cuomo said: “The stress, the emotion, is just incredible, and rightfully so.

By Alissa Trotz Editor of the In the Diaspora column The Covid-19 pandemic finds Guyanese at home and abroad plagued by worry about how our public health system, found sorely wanting at the best of times, but straining at the sinews in the context of the present political crisis since the March 2 election, will cope.

The United States Government is entirely non-partisan about which party wins Guyana’s 2020 elections.