Daily Features

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM – Is the dominance of “Indo-Pacific” thinking leading Western strategists astray?

Embassy of the United States of America 100 Duke & Young Streets, Kingston, Georgetown, Guyana  In this edition of our Ask-the-Consul, we will answer some common questions about traveling to the United States for non-immigrant purposes. 

By David Miliband NEW YORK – On March 8, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Sudan during the holy month of Ramadan.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – Last year, US President Joe Biden’s administration infuriated lobbyists representing Big Tech firms and others that profit from our personal data by denouncing a proposal that would have gutted domestic data privacy, online civil rights and liberties, and competition safeguards.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan (Guyana) Formerly Special Advisor to the UN  Secretary-General (USG) and UN Fellow at Harvard University The United Nations was born in 1945 at the advent of the first Cold War, which lasted from 1945 to 1989.

Chief Justice & President of the Supreme Court of Kenya, 2011-2016.

What is happening in Gaza is barbaric. It has been reported that since October of last year more than thirty-one thousand people have been killed and there have been over seventy-two thousand injuries.

By Jan-Werner Mueller PRINCETON – Among her final acts as chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel requested that her colleagues endorse the two people handpicked by Donald Trump to replace her.

Project Syndicate: As the Ukraine war hit the two-year mark, and following Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death in prison, the United States and the European Union have piled new sanctions onto Russia.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – With around 968 million people registered to vote, India’s upcoming general election (to be held over several weeks in April and May) will be the largest democratic exercise in human history.

By Jorge Heine BOSTON – The prime minister of one of the larger Caribbean countries travels to East Africa to secure a police deployment that would help address runaway gang violence back home, where a recent attack on the national penitentiary freed 4,000 prisoners.

By Reed Galen WASHINGTON, DC – Donald Trump was the unlikeliest of American presidents.

Last year, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) suspended Guyana from its membership because of the delay in compiling and publishing its 2020 annual report.

By Freedom ImaginariesUnder the banner #WithHaitianRefugees, Freedom Imaginaries is urging CARICOM to establish a rights-based regional approach for the protection of Haitian migrants and refugees as leaders prepare to meet in Jamaica today, March 11, to discuss the dire situation in Haiti.

A letter by Professor Kenrick Hunte appearing in the press earlier this week generated a wave of conversation across the society.

The Guyana Prize for Literature Literary Festival began on February 29th and ended on March 3rd.

Introduction Today I will deliberately use the Chinese aphorism that “a picture is worth a thousand words” with great effect.

By Junaid Nabi BOSTON – On a recent international trip, I found myself running late to the airport.

The Protests and Pedagogy Collective was formed in 2018 to organize a series of commemorative events for the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Sir George Williams University Protest.

In our article of 5 February 2024, we began a discussion on  the various anti-corruption measures implemented by the Guyanese authorities over the years and what may have been reasons for Guyana continuing to score poorly on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index.