Daily Features

This year, I received an unusual birthday gift of a small, possible Pandora’s box that seemed simple and innocuous with bright rainbow-like stripes against crisp, white cardboard.

‘Due observance of constitutional democracy and the rule of law in Guyana rests, in large measure, with the conduct of the various branches of government, that is, the President and the Cabinet, the Parliament and the Judiciary.

By Landry Signé and Ameenah Gurib-Fakim WASHINGTON, DC/PORT LOUIS – At a time when the United States, once a standard bearer of multilateralism, is embracing protectionism, Africa has taken a bold step in the opposite direction, creating the world’s largest free-trade area since the establishment of the World Trade Organization in 1995.

A newly released International Monetary Fund forecast has bad news for Latin America: It will be the slowest growing region in the world this year.

Introduction Column 71 published last week included a summary table of the Statements of Financial Position (the Balance Sheet) of the three oil companies which will lead Guyana to First Oil projected to take place during the first quarter of 2020.

I am endeavouring to have a free, fair and transparent election … I believe in inclusivity and I will speak with everybody.

Years ago, on Emancipation Day, an elder called me in London from Cameroon and greeted me with song.

Despite excellent delaying strategies by His Excellency’s People’s National Congress (PNC) dominance, circumstances – dictated from without – have now propelled all interested into top-flight elections mode.

Introduction Column 71 published last week included a summary table of the Statements of Financial Position (the Balance Sheet) of the three oil companies which will lead Guyana to First Oil projected to take place during the first quarter of 2020.

Only 181 years ago, the ancestors of present day Afro-Guyanese were liberated from the shackles of slavery.

This week, the story broke of California Governor Ronald Reagan calling African delegates to the United Nations, “monkeys” in a 1971 slur that sparked chuckles from President Richard Nixon.

By Baroness Patricia Scotland Commonwealth Secretary General It has been almost two years since I sat in a security plane flying over the once familiar, but then almost unrecognisable, terrain of Dominica – the country of my birth. 

My interest in election manipulation was motivated by an intention to prevent it, but I soon came to realise that defending elections against a determined autocrat is not easy.

By Manos Antoninis PARIS – Recent decades have brought significant progress toward a more just and equal world in areas such as poverty reduction, immunization, and life expectancy.

In the last few days new evidence has been published suggesting that scientists are now 99 per cent certain that human activity is causing global warming.

By Yarimar Bonilla Yarimar Bonilla is a founder of the Puerto Rico Syllabus project and co-editor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm.

One in four people in Africa, or approximately 130 million people, pay bribes to access services, such as health care and education, according to the tenth edition of Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) – Africa.

The voices that speak the truth about sexual violence in our society should never be silenced.

Maintaining relevance: Reasonings and groundings (Reasonably certain that today’s offering will finally be among the most brief.)

You might be familiar with the oft-used phrase, “children should be seen and not heard.”