Daily Features

Navigating Guyana’s Carbon Market dilemma

By Nicholas Peters – Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) In December 2022, the South American nation of Guyana took a significant leap into the global carbon market by selling the first jurisdictional carbon credits, a move that heralded important financial gains while also raising serious concerns about effective inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in decision-making in national policies that impact their lands and lives.

Rethinking inequality in Latin America

By Ana María Ibáñez WASHINGTON, DC – Nearly everyone agrees that the unequal distribution of income, wealth, and opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has hindered efforts to build cohesive societies and robust democracies, as well as frustrating the ambitions of young people.

If Trump wins, so will China

By  Chris Patten LONDON – During the darkest days of World War II, as young British pilots valiantly fought the Luftwaffe over southern England and German forces prepared to invade the British Isles, Prime Minister Winston Churchill took on the task of boosting his fellow citizens’ morale, offering them a brighter future to look forward to.

Despite strong constitutional, legislative and regulatory systems to fight corruption, meaningful progress continues to elude us. (Part II)

In our article of 9 October 2023, we had stated that the award of the contract for the construction of sluice and pump station at Belle View, West Bank Demerara, violated the Procurement Act for two main reasons, the contractor’s lack of the requisite experience in undertaking works of this nature as stipulated in the bid documents; and the contractor’s bid was the third lowest responsive bid.

The strike

People who are in the same struggle with their fellow citizens but stand with their oppressors are part of the root of why many people in this country are set to remain in poverty.

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