Daily Features

Last week Thursday (28/11/2019), the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) gave a preview of its strategic development plan for Guyana.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – Wall Street hedge funds and lawyers have turned an arcane procedure of international treaties into a money machine, at the cost of the world’s poorest people.

Their plight no longer hits the headlines, but the shocking personal stories continue to emerge.  

In our article of 25 February 2019, we reported that former Maldives President Abdulla Yameen was arrested for allegedly receiving bribes and kickbacks estimated at US$80 million involving leasing islands and reefs.

By Dr. Nastassia Rambarran Dr. Nastassia Rambarran is a Guyanese Public Health Consultant, Researcher and Physician living in Barbados.

A mini-bus conductor hung his body outside the open door of a moving bus, gyrated as the music played loudly, while passengers cackled and filmed.

Survivors of sexual assault will tell you, recovery can be a daunting journey.

Part 79   Introduction The word is now out that long before the earlier planned date of First Oil, Guyana will witness the historic pouring of the first barrel of crude oil catapulting the small country of barely three-quarter million persons onto the world’s petroleum stage.

Regarding Prime Minister Prakash (HYA) Perhaps it’s because my still-legal, real wife is distant; because my four daughters are all very, very adult and physically distant; because family presence is somewhat merely virtual, I’m no longer a “Christmas person.”

Stabroek News’s ‘Prison-break carnage’ (SN:18/11/2019) presents us with broad facts that occurred during a specific period, namely February 2002 to September 2006, but facts are mainly useful if they can help us to find explanations that prevent the recurrence of unwanted events and/or facilitate the creation of the things we desire.

MOSCOW – In her 2014 book Putin’s Kleptocracy, the late Karen Dawisha argued that the key to understanding Vladimir Putin’s Russia is money.

Although the statistics vary, reliable Caribbean and international entities suggest that the region’s sector is now delivering on average directly and indirectly about 40.6% of the Caribbean’s GDP, earned the region in 2018 US$62bn, and employs at least one in 11 of the region’s citizens.

Iceland’s largest fishing conglomerate, Samherji, used an anonymous shell company in the Marshall Islands to launder illegal fishing activities off the coasts of West Africa and to bribe members of the Namibia government.

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

I have attended various events celebrating the achievements of women, empowerment forums and the establishment of movements for the advancement of women.

When it comes to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans histories, in the Caribbean we are usually at a loss for positive representations.

Introduction Mr. John Hess CEO of Hess Corporation disclosed that his company paid US$30 million for a 30% stake in ExxonMobil’s Stabroek Block.

Accept with thanks, smiles, then vote! It was long obvious to me that His Excellency wasn’t/isn’t too fond of the Caribbean Court’s (CCJ’s) judicial instruction that his administration is of care-taker status.

A Caribbean cargo boat set out for Port Georgetown (PG) in October 2018, with over 200 excited Trinidadian passengers, who were released, early one morning, just off the rich Guyanese coastline.

By David Malpass David Malpass is President of the World Bank Group  For most children, turning 10 is an exciting moment.