Daily Features

By Harold James BERLIN – Public opinion about the world today is oddly bifurcated.

(Reuters) – Investors that use shareholder resolutions to pressure companies on environmental and social issues said they are worried that an Exxon Mobil XOM.N

By  Fawaz A. Gerges LONDON – As the war in Gaza enters its fourth month, many in the Middle East and across the Global South have been struck both by the ferocity of Israel’s military campaign and by Western governments’ unwavering support for it.

By Ulric O’D Trotz Now retired,  Ulric (Neville) Trotz was formerly the Deputy Director & Science Adviser, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belmopan, Belize   Recently the  Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St.

Tomorrow, Transparency International will be releasing its 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) based on surveys carried out in 180 countries.

By Evie Kanhai-Gurchuran Today we have a guest column by Evie Kanhai-Gurchuran.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana Preventive and protective measures have a long history in English and Commonwealth law.

By Scott Barrett, Noah Kaufman, and Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – Casual observers of the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai (COP28) can be forgiven for attributing high stakes to the event.

By Benjamin N. Gedan CARTAGENA – By facilitating the inauguration of Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo, despite a last-ditch effort to overturn his landslide election victory, US President Joe Biden has reaffirmed his longstanding commitment to defending democracies around the world.

By Carlos Felipe Jaramillo Education in Latin America and the Caribbean has a failing grade.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – In the late eighteenth century, Catherine the Great planned a tour of Crimea, which her court favorite, Count Grigory Potemkin, had conquered a few years earlier.

Last Monday was Budget Day 2024 – the day that everyone was looking forward to for an assessment of the performance of the country’s economy in 2023 and its state of affairs at the end of that year.

By Ark Ramsay Ark Ramsay (Bridgetown, 1994) is a trans writer currently based in Barbados.

      Introduction This was the fifth Budget by the PPP/C Government in this Twelfth Parliament.

By Ashoka Mody PRINCETON – On January 22, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over the consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.

The moral compass evolves with time. Freedom should mean that we are able to always live authentically without restrictions on where we can go or how we express ourselves.

By Edoardo Campanella CAMBRIDGE – Over the past three years, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine exposed the vulnerabilities stemming from deep global economic integration.

By Jorge G. Castañeda NEW YORK – Many countries, from the United States and Uruguay to India and Indonesia, will hold elections in 2024.

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By Peter Sands GENEVA – Among the most shocking images from the COVID-19 pandemic were of people gasping for air, unable to breathe, their blood oxygen so severely depleted that some died in ambulances lined up outside hospitals.