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.
By Omar Shahabudin McDoom 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 little drop in the hat, crumbs from the pie, this is the season for most Guyanese.
Introduction This column extends to Mr Trotman compliments and appreciation for his publication.
By S. R. Insanally, former Minister of Foreign Affairs The purpose of the New Global Human Order (Resolution A/RES/62/213 adopted by acclamation at the United Nations 79th General Assembly, 7 March 2008) was fundamentally to address the political, social and economic issues which have long challenged its membership.
By Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In the Diaspora column The Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, Canada, which describes its mission as one of offering a space “to create, develop and produce new plays to provide the conditions for new work to thrive,” is currently home to the world premiere of the deeply moving debut play, A Poem for Rabia, in co-production with Nightwood Theatre and Undercurrent Creations.
By Jarbas Barbosa, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Last September, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) gave new impetus to an initiative to eliminate 30 communicable diseases and related conditions from the region of the Americas.
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