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.
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.
Dubai is one of the wealthiest places in the world and since oil was found in Guyana there are those who have been referring to Guyana as Lil Dubai.
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