By Jeffrey Sachs New World Economy Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley and French President Emmanuel Macron invited world leaders to Paris on June 22-23 to reach a new “global pact” to finance the fight against poverty and human-induced climate change.
By Wacław Radziwinowicz WARSAW – In his address to the Russian people in the wake of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny, Russian President Vladimir Putin alluded to the events of 1917, when General Lavr Kornilov’s infantry rebellion opened the way for the Bolsheviks to seize power and unleash a five-year civil war.
By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana Previously: Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Fellow of Harvard University and Fellow of the LSE.
By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – Yevgeny Prigozhin may have called off his attempted coup just before his Wagner Group mercenaries reached Moscow, but the rebellion may nonetheless have fatally undermined Vladimir Putin’s regime.
The disclosure last week of a sitting Minister of the Government and Member of Parliament (MP) accused of raping and sodomising a 16-year old girl from the indigenous community, has sent shockwaves throughout the length and breadth of Guyana and beyond its borders.
By Samuel Brathwaite Dr Samuel Braithwaite is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at The University of the West Indies, Mona.
A section of our male population believes it is acceptable to sexually harass, sexually assault and rape women and children.
By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana Erstwhile Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Fellow of the LSE and Fellow of Harvard University Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India’s Minister of External Affairs, who visited Guyana recently, has written a thoughtful book, The India Way, that has sharp insights on the emerging global order.
By Mia Mottley and Werner Hoyer PARIS – In a world beset by rising temperatures, extreme weather patterns, and escalating natural disasters, the urgency of decisive action on climate change and the threat of future pandemics has never been more apparent.
Part 2 Rural and Indigenous women perform much of their agricultural activities as unpaid family members or as self-employed workers.
By S.R. Insanally, retired Minister of Foreign Affairs Although much has already been said – and written – about the ongoing Russian/Ukraine conflict, I felt that in Guyana, I should publish some of my own observations that would allow our citizens to better comprehend its significance, not only for our own country but also for the wider world.
NEW YORK – It has now been over two years since G7 leaders announced a groundbreaking agreement to divvy up taxation of multinational corporations’ profits.
By Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan, Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana and erstwhile Fellow at Harvard University As an emerging energy power, a forthcoming member of the UN Security Council, and with an energetic President reaching out internationally, Guyana now has a heightened role on the world stage.
By Samuel Brathwaite Dr Samuel Braithwaite is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at The University of the West Indies, Mona.
The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions. It’s fossil fuels – period.
By Sarah Kihika Kasande KAMPALA – In late May, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act, a new law that institutionalizes the persecution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) people and, more broadly, promotes a culture of hate.
In oil rich Guyana, where Exxon’s subsidiary this week announced that it recorded $577.7 billion in profits in 2022 and where talks of progress and development are rife, there was low voter turnout at the Local Government Elections on Monday.
Part 1 Chinese Communist Party Chairman, Mao Zedong once stated that “Women hold up half the sky.”
Embassy of the United States of America 100 Duke & Young Streets, Kingston, Georgetown, Guyana To improve efficiency in the visa application process and to provide better services to visa applicants, the Consular Section of the United States Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana re-opened the Visa Document Service Center, known as the “DSC” on June 13, 2023.
By Nina L. Khrushcheva NEW YORK – Russia’s war against Ukraine has not gone as planned, to say the least.
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