Daily Features

By Joseph S. Nye CAMBRIDGE – When US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently visited Beijing in an effort to stabilize relations with China, many of the issues that he discussed with Chinese President Xi Jinping were highly contentious.

Last Thursday, the Stabroek News carried an article under the caption “Trinidad AG to Auditor General: I won’t be intimidated by threats”, caught our attention.

Feminists, women’s rights advocates, and civil society members across the Caribbean are aggrieved by the continued genocide in Palestine and the equivocation of many CARICOM Member States in response.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – As India’s general election enters its second month, most conventional expectations have already been upended.

Ramy El-Batrawi who was the highest bidder for the Marriott Hotel recently passed away at the age of 62.

By Harold James PRINCETON – Gold has returned to the international monetary system.

Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded Part 125 Introduction The disagreement involving the three Contractors under the 2016 Agreement (Exxon Guyana, Mobil, Hess and CNOOC) and Chevron over the friendly takeover of Hess by Chevron has gone to arbitration in the United States.

By Yanis Varoufakis ATHENS – Three weeks ago, I was banned from entering Germany.

By Chris Patten LONDON – “I looked the man in the eye.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana.

By Magdalee Brunache Magdalee Brunache is from Haiti, and is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science with a focus on Development Studies and Comparative Politics at the University of Toronto In Haiti, the security situation has reached an unprecedented level, with an estimated 1,554 people killed in the first three months of 2024.

In last week’s article, we began a discussion of the Public Procurement Commission’s (PPC) summary report on the award of the contract to Tepui Group in the sum of $865.5 million for the construction of a sluice and pump station at Belle Vue, West Bank Demerara.

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM – The news this past week was undoubtedly met with relief in Kyiv and with grief in the Kremlin.

By Neha Bansal NEW DELHI – This year marks the 30th anniversary of the United Nations’ International Year of the Family (IYF).

By Professor Jeffrey Sachs The latest campaign of the United States against China is the charge that China has excess capacity in a range of manufactured goods and so should restrain its exports. 

By Jorge G. Castañeda and Carlos Ominami MEXICO CITY – Violence lurks in nearly all of Latin America’s major cities.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan, Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana First Swiss Chair in International Human Rights Law, Geneva Graduate Institute In my offerings in these pages, I have endeavoured to draw attention to international policies and strategies that can contribute to the process of nation-building in a Guyana of diverse ethnicities.

In our article of 9 October 2023, we discussed the award of the contract for the construction of a sluice pump station at Belle Vue, West Bank Demerara, to Tepui Group Inc.

By Simon Taylor, co-Founder & Board member of Global Witness, and co-Founder of Publish What You Pay; Saswati Svetlana, National Coordinator, Mineral Inheritors Rights Association, India; Mike McCormack, Director, Policy Forum Guyana; Patrick Bond, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg; and Rahul Basu, Research Director, Goa Foundation, India.

This week during the third session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent in Geneva, Switzerland, is when journalist and media personality Wanita Huburn was attacked for sharing her opinion on Facebook about the government taking accountability for the incompetence of the Guyana Power and Light.