By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM – In his annual press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin made it clear that he will be ready for a peace settlement with Ukraine only after he has achieved his goals, which have not changed since he launched his full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022.
By Michael Ignatieff VIENNA – Seventy-five years ago, United Nations member states meeting in Paris adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
After a much deserved two months’ break, we resume our column today by commencing a review of the Auditor General’s report on the audit of the public accounts of Guyana for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2022.
By Cedric L. Joseph Cedric L Joseph is a retired senior diplomat.
By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana The meeting in St Vincent and the Grenadines that produced the Argyle declaration was a good faith effort by the organizers and attendees to help maintain the Caribbean and Latin America as a Zone of Peace and we owe a debt of gratitude to all who made this possible.
It was not surprising to hear about a journalist being shot at in Guyana.
By Vitaly Dymarsky SAINT PETERSBURG – Kremlin insiders like to tell the following story.
Understanding, or not understanding ringfencing Introduction Today’s column returns to the very popular topic of ringfencing in petroleum operations.
By Gemma Robinson Moray House Trust in Georgetown held its annual Martin Carter memorial event this week.
By Carlos Nobre and Marielos Peña-Claros SÃO PAULO/WAGENINGEN – This year has been the warmest on record, with climate change causing more frequent and intense heatwaves, wildfires, floods, and droughts.
By Nastassia Rambarran Nastassia Rambarran is a Guyanese-Barbadian physician and researcher completing a PhD on queer movements and decolonization.
At a trying time like this, we wish the nation was not plunged into mourning.
By Carlos Nobre and Marielos Peña-Claros SÃO PAULO/WAGENINGEN – This year has been the warmest on record, with climate change causing more frequent and intense heatwaves, wildfires, floods, and droughts.
By Nikki Reisch WASHINGTON, DC – Amid record heatwaves, intensifying and costly extreme weather events, and increasingly dire warnings that climate change is literally killing us, calls to abandon fossil fuels grow louder.
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.
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