Daily Features

By Professor Emeritus Compton Bourne, former President, Caribbean Development Bank Introduction My address to the Caribbean Develop-ment Bank Board of Governors in Georgetown in May 2005, postulated that major social and political problems in the Caribbean constituted the soft underbelly of economic progress in that the social progress achieved was insufficient in its distribution across households and districts to cap the wells of discontent which threaten the stability of future economic growth.

By Daniel Gros SOFIA/MILAN – Economists have long argued that regulation alone cannot bring about the reduction in global greenhouse-gas emissions that is needed to curb climate change; a carbon price is also essential.

By  Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – Last week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government inaugurated a new parliament building in New Delhi.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) is one of the organizations highlighted in a global study on The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs just issued by the publishing house Brill.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana (The author, a Barrister with a doctorate in law from the LSE, also has a BA (Hons).

Last week, the Brazilian Supreme Court sentenced former President Fernando Collor de Mello to eight years and 10 months in prison on corruption and money laundering charges.

By Havelock Brewster Note by Editor (Alissa Trotz): Professor Havelock Brewster passed away last week, at the age of 86.

By Macsood Hoosein What is the National Tree of Guyana? Answer: Not declared.

In my first year at university, our lecturer was discussing post-colonial societies.

 By Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In the Diaspora column This week’s diaspora column is dedicated to the children lost to and injured by the fire at Mahdia.

By Chris Patten LONDON – The recent G7 summit in Hiroshima culminated in an impressive show of unity over the war in Ukraine and China’s expansionism.

By Professor Emeritus Compton Bourne, Former President, Caribbean Development Bank Introduction Production and marketing of Guyana’s abundant oil and natural gas resources provide unheralded opportunities to substantially raise levels of living for its resident population.

In a message for the World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation, Pope Francis stated that the world must rapidly ditch fossil fuels and end the “senseless war against creation”.

The screams of Guyana’s children, trapped in a conflagration prolong our moments of silence.

The recent fire at the Mahdia school dorms that killed 19 children was a tragedy, that should not have been allowed to reach the disastrous scale that it did.

By Nate D.F. Allen and Nanjira Sambuli WASHINGTON, DC/NAIROBI – Last year, Google’s Equiano undersea cable began conveying terabytes of data per second to and from African shores.

By Jeffrey Sachs In the year 2000, the US government debt was $3.5 trillion, equal to 35% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). 

By Ralph Gonsalves, Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa, and Wavel Ramkalawan KINGSTOWN/APIA/VICTORIA – It is too early to tell whether all the talk about reforming development finance at this year’s International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring Meetings will translate into meaningful policy action for the Global South.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Former Chief Speech-Writer of the UN Secretary-General The Economist of May 20-26, 2023, carries a riveting article, “How to prevent a third world war”, based on an eight-hour interview with veteran global strategist, Dr Henry Kissinger, who turns 100 during the month of May.

Authors: Anil Persaud (persaudk@gmail.com) and Aryama (aryama@hotmail.com) were trained in history and political science, respectively, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.