Daily Features

By Jeffrey D. Sachs US foreign policy is based on an inherent contradiction and fatal flaw.

(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 Masatsugu Asakawa MANILA – We live in a world assailed by crisis, with war, disease, and economic hardship taking a terrible toll on human welfare in recent years.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – The sentencing of Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the opposition Indian National Congress, to two years in prison, and his disqualification as a lawmaker in the Lok Sabha (the lower house), has sent shockwaves through India’s political system.

By Anya A. A. Lorde Anya A. A. Lorde is an Attorney-at-Law called to the Bar to practice in Barbados since October 2016.

An interesting article appeared in December 2017 in MoneyWatch on why the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fails as a measure of well-being.

Introduction Part 107 of this column took up the issue of the construction of a Head Office building by Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited at Ogle, ECD and asserted that the whole saga is rife with misrepresentation, secrecy, complicity, abuse of power, possible illegality, and a touch of mystery.

(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.

One week ago, my team over at Tamùkke Feminists held a Labour Laws and Policies workshop for new and mid-career professionals.

By Jorge G. Castañeda and Carlos Ominami NEW YORK – Recent years have not been good ones for democracy in Latin America.

By Neville J. Bissember Article I of the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid declares that ‘apartheid is a crime against humanity and that inhuman acts resulting from the policies and practices of apartheid and similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination, as defined in article II of the Convention, are crimes violating the principles of international law…’  The Convention defines the crime of apartheid in Article II by comparing a number of examples to ‘…similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination as practised in southern Africa’, which have the stated purpose of ‘…establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them’.

Some 700 experts from universities and research bodies across the UK sent a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak urging him to end approvals for all new oil and gas developments, as any such approval would undermine the UK’s position as a global climate leader.

By Gabrielle Jamela Hosein Gabrielle Jamela Hosein is a feminist, activist, poet and Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, and also writes a column in the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian A shorter version of this column, titled ‘Will We Hasten Slowly?’

By Mark Leonard BERLIN – By all accounts, Chinese President Xi Jinping has had a successful few weeks.

We must speak even when it is the ones, we endorse that offend.

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.