By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – The United States has charged Indian national Nikhil Gupta, a 52-year-old narcotics and weapons trader, for plotting to murder a prominent Sikh separatist, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a US citizen, in New York City.
By Janette Bulkan and John Palmer During their first few months of life, young fish are called ‘fry’; most do not survive to adulthood.
There are women in seats of power who sit with men in seats of power and some of those men display anti-women behaviour but some of these women never call them out on their conduct.
By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana Previously UN Under-Secretary-General Guyana has achieved a notable gain in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which unanimously held on 1 December that “pending a final decision in the case, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela shall refrain from taking any action which would modify the situation that currently prevails in the territory in dispute, whereby the Cooperative Republic of Guyana administers and exercises control over that area.”
There are women in seats of power who sit with men in seats of power and some of those men display anti-women behaviour but some of these women never call them out on their conduct.
By Marta Schaaf and Kristine Beckerle NEW YORK – To avert catastrophic climate change, an active and empowered civil society is necessary.
By Ban Ki-moon, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, and Laura Chinchilla Miranda LONDON – If the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai is to be judged a success, it will have to bring an urgently needed breakthrough on climate finance.
By Nina L. Khrushcheva SAINT PETERSBURG – In 2014, the former police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an investigative journalist from the liberal publication Novaya Gazeta.
By Ulric O’D Trotz Now retired, Ulric (Neville) Trotz was formerly the Deputy Director & Science Adviser, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belmopan, Belize As Guyana invests in an aggressive program of infrastructure development in its inhabited coastal zone, it is incumbent on all involved to ensure that the proposed interventions have minimal or no adverse environmental impacts on the prevailing environment and that they are sustainable and can withstand future environmental changes.
Introduction Let me confess to being as surprised as many of the readers of this column, on learning that Belize is in fact an oil producing state!
By Gordon Brown EDINBURGH – The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai is just weeks away.
By Simon Zadek GENEVA – The negotiators and activists preparing to attend the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai are grimly aware that there is no realistic chance of limiting global warming to 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
By Richard Haass NEW YORK – Summits are by definition occasions of high politics and drama, so it comes as little surprise that the November 15 meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping generated immense global interest.
by Omar Shahabudin McDoom o.s.mcdoom@lse.ac.uk Omar Shahabudin McDoom is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics where his research interests include the comparative study of war and violence.
A few days ago, there was an appeal for Guyanese to temporarily change their profile pictures on social media to the map of Guyana with the slogan “One Guyana”.
Introduction The Kaieteur News this past Wednesday reported Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat as stating that the Government has written ExxonMobil directing that it relinquish portions of the Kaieteur and Canje Oil Blocks.
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By Ari Juels and Eswar Prasad NEW YORK/ITHACA – The vertiginous fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX who was recently convicted of fraud and money laundering in New York, has cast a harsh light on a largely unregulated market.
By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – India’s tortuous stance on the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza offers a fascinating illustration of the recent evolution of the country’s foreign policy.
ISTANBUL – In 2007, I found myself in a car with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and then-Israeli President Shimon Peres en route to Turkey’s Grand National Assembly.
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