By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan
At the start of Guyana’s term on the United Nations Security Council, its distinguished representative, Ms Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, one of the few indigenous persons ever to head a delegation on the Council, declared a people-oriented approach to Guyana’s tenure on the Council.
By Mohamed ElBaradei
VIENNA – After COVID-19 struck in 2020, creating chaos and misery, I hoped that some silver lining would emerge from this global tragedy.
By the Protests and Pedagogy Collective
Protests and Pedagogy is a collective of Caribbean scholars, students, community members, writers, artists, and activists who initially came together in 2019 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sir George Williams University student protest.
In last week’s article, we referred to the exchanges between Chartered Accountant and Attorney-at-law Christopher Ram, and the Attorney General as to whether the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) has been overstated to the extent of ExxonMobil’s subsidiaries tax liabilities that are required to be paid over to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).
By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan
Author of ‘Modernizing the Role of the International Court of Justice’ (2022)
On 7 October 2023, Hamas perpetrated a genocidal attack against Israel when it brutalized and killed over 1200 people, raped women, and took some 240 hostages.
The infamous tax certificates
We recall from Column 119 that while the tax is paid by the Government of Guyana, the oil companies receive from the Guyana Revenue Authority ‘proper tax certificates’ in their names.
By Peter Singer
MELBOURNE – Last month, I was invited to join other Princeton University academics in viewing a compilation of raw footage from GoPro cameras carried by Hamas gunmen killing civilians in Israel on October 7.
Before proceeding with today’s article, we would like to comment on the exchanges between Chartered Accountant and Attorney-at-law Christopher Ram, and the Attorney General in relation to the apparent overstatement of the balance on the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) account.
By Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Kosenko
NEW YORK – As Russia’s war against Ukraine continues to wreak havoc both regionally and globally, the Ukrainian people and their allies demonstrate remarkable determination and courage.
By Chris Patten
LONDON – It may shock some Americans to learn that democratic leaders and publics in Europe and elsewhere are more concerned about the prospect of Donald Trump winning their country’s 2024 presidential election than any other world event, including crucial elections in their own countries.
On 11 December 2023, the audited public accounts for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2022 along with the report of the Auditor General thereon were presented to the National Assembly.
By Janette Bulkan
Janette Bulkan is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia
This column reflects on the Joint Declaration of Argyle against the geopolitical backdrop in which Guyana and Venezuela are enmeshed.
By Nina L. Khrushcheva
MOSCOW – Harvard’s Graham Allison recently commented that, while China “is and will be the fiercest rival a ruling power has ever faced,” the current “demonization” of the country “confuses more than it clarifies.”
Among the several challenges facing the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) – also known internationally as a Sovereign Wealth Fund – identified in column 117 published on 22 December, was one which I described simply as “accounting”.
By Emmanuel Macron
PARIS – The ongoing war in Ukraine and the fighting in Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack must not distract the world from our collective priorities: reducing our CO2 emissions, aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050, preserving biodiversity, and fighting poverty and inequality.
During the period between the passing of the vote of no confidence in the previous Government on 21 December 2018 and the swearing in of the President Irfaan Ali on 2 August 2020, we had carried a total of 40 articles on the election-rated matters, including the outcomes of the various court cases that were filed.