Daily Features

By Yeşim Oruç, UN Resident Coordinator Guyana Today is United Nations (UN) Day.

By Kimalee Phillip Kimalee Phillip is a Grenadian migrant currently living on the stolen lands of Tkaronto (Toronto) where she works as a labour human rights representative and organizes with the Caribbean Solidarity Network.

There were talks this week about Venezuelan troops near our borders.

Introduction Today’s column begins the review of Raphael Trotman’s book From Destiny to Prosperity – the names of two of the first three Floating Production, Storage and  Offloading vessels (FPSO) in the petroleum operations conducted by the Contractors in the Stabroek Block, the other being Unity.

By Carl Bildt .ABU DHABI – Gaza is now at risk of sinking into a new hell.

2025 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program – Your Guide to Applying Many people are interested in immigrating to the United States but do not have a qualifying family member or employer to sponsor them.

A Call for Signatures, A Call for CARICOM Action https://chng.it/LR5TSJPd4h Editor’s Note: In the past week, Guyanese have been organizing pickets demonstrating the importance of regional and international solidarity that does not answer to the geopolitical imperatives of the powerful.

It was refreshing that no politicians were invited to speak this year at the observance of the African Holocaust Day (Maafa Day) at the Seawall Bandstand.

Introduction It has been several months since column 108. Yet, when I told a friend that I intended to publish approximately eight columns over the next few weeks, his immediate reaction was the question: what will you say that you have not addressed in the one hundred and eight columns and dozens of letters over the past four years?

By Barak Barfi WASHINGTON, DC – The multi-pronged operation that Hamas launched against Israel one day after the anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War is eerily similar to that conflict.

By Shlomo Ben-Ami TOLEDO – Sooner or later, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s destructive political magic, which has kept him in power for 15 years, was bound to usher in a major tragedy.

By Myrtha Désulmé Myrtha Désulmé is President and Founder of the Haiti-Jamaica Society, a Board member of the Haitian Forum for Peace and Sustainable development (FOHPDD), and longtime Advocate for Haiti.

Last week, former Nigerian oil minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, appeared in court in London charged with receiving bribes in the form of cash, luxury goods, flights on private jets and the use of high-end properties in Britain in return for awarding billions of dollars in oil contracts.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs We are entering the end stage of the 30-year US neocon debacle in Ukraine. 

In 2023 the shortcomings of our past continue to contribute to the pain of our present.

By Immaculate Atuhamize and Bertrand Badré KAMPALA/PARIS – The Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact, held this past June, rightly focused on promoting an inclusive climate action plan that leaves no one behind.

By Joseph S. Nye CAMBRIDGE – The great-power competition between the United States and China is a defining feature of the first part of this century, but there is little agreement on how it should be characterized.

By The Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (https://ijdh.org/) The Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) is a U.S.-based

The Speaker of Canada’s House of Commons lower chamber is resigning from the position for publicly praising Yaroslav Hunka, a former Nazi soldier.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – When North Korean leader Kim Jong-un stepped out of his armored train at a railway station in the eastern Russian town of Khasan for his recent meeting with President Vladimir Putin, I could not help but think of the satirical 2017 film The Death of Stalin.