Daily Features

Caught in the cross-fire – non-OPEC, non-shale producers

By John Kemp (John Kemp is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)  LONDON (Reuters) – The biggest losers from the current price war between OPEC and the shale producers seem set to be producers outside the Middle East and North America caught in the cross-fire.

Cuba, change and the internet Part 2

When it comes to Cuba what is often missed is that its government’s primary focus is not on the process of normalising its relationship with the US, but on the far more fundamental domestic reforms that are gradually changing the country’s political and economic model in ways that are intended to better deliver its objectives.

Jack Gladstone

The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823 was a seminal event in the history of slave resistance in British Guiana and in the colonial world.

How to treat today’s PPP Opposition

How dare I – a non-academic, a non-political scientist, a non-professional, qualified analyst or philosophy “logician” – attempt to advise a new government how to entertain or respond to a political/parliamentary Opposition-aggressor, seemingly dedicated to being uncooperative?

Remembering African Heritage

Every year about this time, a small group of skilled craftswomen display an impressive array of African fashion in the Main Street Avenue, close to Courts Guyana Inc.

New Rules of Court by yearend?

Drafted, re-drafted, re-read, tweaked, tweaked again, tabled, with repeated training. And yet, we are still awaiting the Civil Procedure Rules’ illustrious commencement and implementation in the hallowed halls of our Courts.

Fighting corruption won’t end poverty

Ricardo Hausmann, a former minister of planning of Venezuela and former Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank, is Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at Harvard University, where he is also Director of the Center for International Development.

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