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The Exchange Visitor Visa Program – (J-1 Visas)

Ask-the-Consul Installment 24-11 The Exchange Visa Program (J-1) provides many opportunities for foreign nationals to visit the United States to teach, study, conduct research, demonstrate special skills, or receive on-the-job training for periods ranging from a few weeks to several years. 

Modalities of Tender Evaluation under PPA 2003

By Donald Rodney Part 4 – embracing disclosure This penultimate Part 4 and the final Part 5, will deal with the potential for overcoming any obvious malpractice in the procurement process arising from the unpacking of information from the two published findings of PPC, described in Part 1.

India’s troubled truce with China

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – In June 2020, incursions by Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops into the fraught borderlands of India’s Ladakh region triggered bloody clashes that killed 20 Indian soldiers, plunged bilateral relations to their lowest point in decades, and led to a prolonged military standoff.

Bertrand Ramcharan

The GHRA and the history of Guyana

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of GuyanaFormer UN Under-Secretary-General for Human Rights The Guyana Human Rights Association marks its forty-fifth anniversary this year and it is fitting to reflect on the contribution the GHRA has made to the history of Guyana.

Modalities of Tender Evaluation under PPA 2003

By Donald Rodney Part 3D – language and discretion (Cont’d) This Part 3D concludes on discretion to be exercised when government selects criteria from the ‘list of six’ categories, and with the final item as unpacked from the two published findings of the PPC.

Anton Allahar was born in Trinidad and is a professor emeritus (Sociology) at Western University in Canada.

Democracy: Living the lie

By Anton Allahar Following Donald Trump’s re-election to the US presidency, many wonder how such a flawed and vulgar human being could be sent back to the White House after his disastrous first four years.

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