Daily Features

Introduction Today I return to the matter of Esso’s new head office at Ogle, first addressed in Part 104 on 9th.

(In honour of the late SN columnist Arthur Allan Fenty, who authored a column on Fridays in this newspaper for 30 years, Stabroek News will be running some of his earliest contributions.

In 2015, Guyana was recategorized as a middle-income country. With new industries, came enhanced needs for technological evolution in a country that has lagged behind the region in ICT development.

By Kenneth Rogoff MILAN – The spectacle of the US Congress grilling TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on March 23 could one day be remembered as a turning point in the history of globalization.

Since I returned from the United Nations in 2012 and became involved in the work of Transparency Institute Guyana Inc.

By Beniamino Callegari and Per Espen Stoknes OSLO – An easy way to start a long, heated debate is to mention global population.

By Yanis Varoufakis   ATHENS – The banking crisis this time is different.

Humanity is on thin ice—and that ice is melting fast. Our world needs climate action on all fronts—everything, everywhere, all at once.

By Honor Ford-Smith Honor Ford-Smith is Professor Emerita, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University.

Introduction In Guyana’s fast changing news cycle, the issue of whether or not there is a shortage of foreign currency appears to have receded into the background.

Stuck behind a garbage truck late one morning this week, a driver exclaimed.

(In honour of the late SN columnist Arthur Allan Fenty, who authored a column on Fridays in this newspaper for 30 years, Stabroek News will be running some of his earliest contributions.

By Commonwealth Secretary-General, the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland and Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and External Trade of Vanuatu, Hon Jotham Napat Human life is sacred and every individual deserves an equal chance in life.

The only innocent woman apparently worthy of sympathy or accountability is a dead one.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Previously Chief Speech-Writer of the UN Secretary-General, Director in the UN Political Department, and Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana The United Nations Security Council is the most authoritative organ in the world and it is important to have a contemporary understanding of the Council at a time that is fraught with risks and challenges to international, as well as regional, peace and security. 

By Jeffrey D. Sachs The banking crisis that hit Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week has spread.

Alissa Trotz is Professor of Caribbean Studies and Director of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.

Last Monday, the meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to scrutinize the public accounts and the related reports of the Auditor General, had to be cancelled because of the absence of a quorum.

Introduction It is surely a contradiction that even as Guyana has the fastest growing economy in the world, and amid a phenomenal expansion in oil production and export, the issue of the availability of foreign exchange is now a major topic, a running debate on facts among the Government, the Bank of Guyana, segments of the Private Sector Commission and of the banking sector and privately owned businesses.

It seems like the lady and lord of death are dancing on Guyana’s soil.