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By Carolyn Cooper Carolyn Cooper, PhD, is a specialist on culture and development.

When freedom of expression is challenged, we all are at risk.

“This land is my land” I return briefly to the issue of choices before and whenever His Excellency “proclaims” the elections date.

Introduction This column has had an extensive rest – more than half the year while more and more of the defects and inadequacies of the infamous “ExxonMobil” Petroleum Agreement (PA) have been exposed.

By Akola Thompson In the year 1995, Jamaican artiste and activist Macka B sang the jam, Legalize the Herb.

The Mighty Sparrow offered the most creative explanations for philandering in his classic hit, “Lying excuses” putting to shame Shaggy’s steadfast denials years later, “It Wasn’t Me.”

‘Take Azerbaijan’s 2013 elections, when the highly repressive government of President Ilham Aliyev sought to boost its democratic credentials by launching an iPhone app that enabled citizens to keep up to speed with the vote tallies as ballot counting took place.

How sad. At the much-awaited Democratic presidential debates Wednesday and Thursday, none of the five moderators or any of the 20 presidential hopefuls mentioned the biggest humanitarian and refugee crisis in the Western Hemisphere: Venezuela.

By Simon Johnson WASHINGTON, DC – Around the world, the creation of good new jobs is increasingly concentrated in some of the largest cities.

By Ron Fanfair Ron Fanfair is a freelance writer/photographer for Share (sharenews.com)

On 18 June 2019, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) handed down its decisions on two matters that were referred to it for a ruling.

Speaking at the end of the recent summit of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Dominica’s Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, was clear.

Food shortages and medical drug scarcities; crime and hyperinflation; mismanagement and dictatorship.

From a young age, many women are societally conditioned to accept acts of sexual harassment made against them.

-Romanticising the ghetto? Or empowering it? Hoping that the thoughts explored or expressed in the paragraphs immediately hereunder do not attract the displeasure of the more politically-minded.

(This is the sixth of a series of articles by Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc on the Production Sharing Agreement signed between the Government of Guyana and Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil.)

It must rank as an extraordinary moment in the short, checkered history of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

The decision of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to strike down all the APNU+AFC positions in the cases relating to the no-confidence vote (NCV) and the appointment of the chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) was predictable, and its decision to give the parties space to do their political work is commendable but predictably doomed.

By  Jörg Reinhardt ZURICH – Virtually every country worldwide has committed to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030, as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

When former vice-president Joe Biden, 76, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, 77, show up at the first Democratic debates on Thursday in Miami, there will be much public discussion about the fact  that any of them – as well as President Trump – would be the oldest president in U.S.