Daily Features

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.

By George Soros LONDON – It is exactly one month ago that I gave a speech on the eve of the Munich Security Conference.

When sharing on Guyana’s progressive abortion act with civil society leaders in other countries, I am often asked about what that process looked like as they seek out strategies to push for safe abortions in their own countries.

(In tribute to the late columnist Allan Fenty, Stabroek News will be running some of his earlier columns in his regular Friday slot.

NEW DELHI – Since the dawn of international politics, smaller states have faced the formidable challenge of navigating great-power rivalries.

This edition of Ask the Consul addresses common questions asked by Green Card Holders when they travel outside of the United States.