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The United States Embassy is happy to answer some common questions that non-immigrant (“holiday”) visa holders and applicants may have.

Nearly three years ago, a bright-eyed dog was curiously sniffing her way through a routine examination of a small Westwind business jet that had landed early that evening for a quick refuelling stop at Luiz Munoz Marin International Airport in Puerto Rico.

On reading last week that a decade after the dispute arose between Rusal, the Russian bauxite company, and the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GBGWU), union officials still had to be forcing their way into government offices to demand that their long-standing grievances be properly considered, I remembered the cartoon above, which portrays a confrontation between Mr.

Facing escalating international sanctions, Venezuela’s autocrat Nicolas Maduro is offering a new “dialogue” with the opposition and national elections at the end of 2018.

By Yarimar Bonilla  Yarimar Bonilla is the author of “Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment” and a founder of the Puerto Rico Syllabus.

Mikhail Rodrigues `From the beginning I thought the parking meter was a sham.

Last Wednesday, the cities of San Francisco and Oakland in California filed separate lawsuits against five oil companies – ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP and Royal Dutch Shell –  seeking compensation to protect them against rising sea levels which they blame on climate change.

Earlier this year, the Commonwealth Marine Economies Programme published a report on the impact of climate change on Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

The Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations in 1989 and approved by the Government of Guyana in 1991.

Trotman’s new Agreement Today’s column seeks to address an issue which has largely gone under the radar because Mr.

-the PNC at 60 (Pt 2) I assumed two positions and approaches to this piece today.

In our home, stands a prized life-size panel of fine Belizean mahogany carved with an imposing figure of Hunaphu, one of the handsome hero twins of the Classic Maya creation myth, soundlessly striding with the axe that he furiously wields to help his brother Xbalanque defeat the lords of the underworld in a series of intense battles.

‘Is it possible to vote and/or encourage others to vote racially and not be a racist?’

In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, I have received emails from friends and relatives all over the world asking whether this city will drown under the sea or be blown away by hurricanes over the next few decades.

Susana Hurlich is a Canadian anthropologist, researcher and consultant who has lived and worked for the past 26 years in Cuba.

You can see the effects of climate change and scientists have clearly said what path we have to follow…All of us have a responsibility, all of us, small or large, a moral responsibility.

In an age when most in the business of tourism are seeking to increase their income by selling authenticity to millennials and baby-boomers, it is perhaps puzzling that another rapidly growing industry segment now wants to deliver just the opposite.

A woman of African descent wrote on social media this week, “Amerindians are animals and should go back to the bush.”

There is a wide variety of petroleum contracts which countries, with the single exception of the USA, may choose to adopt.

-Florida, Irma and Guyanese (Hoping to keep today’s offering to relative concise snippet-like size and length.)