Daily Features

Over the past few months, several incidents of school violence  reached the public.

Introduction This column should have continued my take on Local Content.

Farmer Nappy’s `Garbage Bag’ at D’Urban Park! January 2020 has just gotten started.

By Bertrand Ramcharan A new Decade offers new vistas, new promise for our Dear Land of Guyana.

Guyana has been in the sugar industry for centuries and has exported high and low level managers and technicians to many countries around the world, yet in a letter last week, Mr.

By Sergei Guriev PARIS – From Hitler to Stalin, and from Mussolini to Mao, the world’s twentieth-century dictators took to heart Niccolò Machiavelli’s famous dictum that “it is better to be feared than loved.”

By Justin Yifu Lin and Yan Wang BEIJING – Since the 1960s, more than $4.6 trillion (in constant 2007 dollars) in gross bilateral and multilateral official development assistance (ODA) has been transferred to low-income countries.

After 25 years, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is being replaced by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) amid criticisms of the benefits achieved so far.

By Cherie A. Daniel                      Cherie A. Daniel is currently a  PhD student at the University of Toronto (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education).

“Seasons greeting! All-all-all the best! Happy successful holidays! A victorious New Year 2020!

The beginning of another decade is upon us. With it always comes the hope of new beginnings and a chance to change course from things that are working against us.

In this most charitable of seasons I am returning to my contemplation of global inequality and the poor.

Taken at face value, the outcome of Britain’s December 12 general election could not have been clearer.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – At a time when India’s major national priority ought to be creating economic growth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has instead plunged the country into a new political crisis of its own making.

Angola, Africa’s second largest oil exporting country with a GDP per capita of US$3,230 in 2018, has recovered over US$5 billion of state funds, including $3 billion siphoned off the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) through corruption and money-laundering.

By Ulric Trotz Ulric Trotz is the Deputy Director & Science Adviser, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belmopan, Belize  After the euphoria pervading the international community at the end of COP 21 when there was unanimous global agreement on the Paris Agreement which defined a way forward for global action on climate change, there is now universal despair (barring a few) in the wake of the recently concluded COP 25 in Madrid which is now generally regarded as an abject failure.

The macabre results of Guyana’s vehicular accidents have created enough trauma to impact a few generations.

…and some fake, false and sham Okay, whether in living–room, kitchen, office, factory, crowded congested store or street, you won’t want to read anything that’s too long or prolix at this time.

“Service and Protection,” this has been the ironic motto of the Guyana Police Force since its formation.

Many full moons ago, traditional classics like “Jingle Bells” dominated the radio and school Christmas parties, and we rocked around the trees and danced in the halls, dreaming of joy to the world.