Daily Features

By Yacine Djibo DAKAR – The planet is losing its ability to support life as we know it, and nowhere is this clearer than in Africa – the continent that is most vulnerable to climate change despite having contributed the least to atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse-gas emissions.

By Antoine B. Craigwell In November, I attended the second annual Guyana Well-being Conference held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre and there I presented two workshops, on understanding culture and mental health from a “whole-person” perspective, and looking at mental health signs and symptoms for stress, anxiety, depression and the progression toward suicidal ideation and attempts – intervening to prevent a person descending into a mental health crisis and if in crisis, what to do to get the person help.

By  Michael Spence MILAN – Net-zero commitments are all the rage.

First consider these two relatively–opposing points: compared to many other portions of our planet our Guyana enjoys actual prolonged peace; and do you realise many – too many – opposition politicians – along with many letter-writing surrogates/critics – would experience serious mental trauma if prolonged peace and consistent development offered them no reason to be critical, to oppose or to ‘buse?

By Olga Speranskaya and Alexandra Caterbow MUNICH/OTTAWA – In late November, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution met for the first time.

By Jorge G. Castañeda YORK – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has reached the beginning of the end.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – India looks set to end a tumultuous year on a celebratory note, marking both 75 years of independence and the start of its G20 presidency.

When I was in Opposition, I always wondered why is it that the Auditor General is not involved in the audit of public corporations.

By Vidyaratha Kissoon Vidyaratha Kissoon lives and works in Guyana. He witnessed men and women talk about the ‘nice’ man who killed his wife and the other men who wanted to slap up an older woman.

But why 25th December? Defined simply, basically, morality has to do with the sense of what is right, beneficial for an individual or a society as a whole.

By Nick Butler LONDON – Many have dismissed last month’s COP27 climate conference as a failure, owing to the lack of progress on pledges made at the COP26 summit last year, and to the absence of clear commitments to phase out fossil fuels.

From November 25th to December 10th, the annual 16 days of activism campaign against gender-based violence against women and girls was observed.

Some visitor visa applicants qualify to have their interviews waived and can submit their application documents for visa processing via our authorized courier service – currently DHL.

By Janette Bulkan On 1 December, Winrock International and The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) published the news on their websites that Winrock’s Architecture on REDD+ Transactions (ART) had issued the world’s first TREES credits to Guyana, a total of 33.47 million carbon credits.

By Commonwealth Secretary-General, The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC and Dr Nazia Mintz Habib FRSA, Founder of the Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development.

By Richard Haass NEW YORK – Few will miss 2022, a year defined by a lingering pandemic, advancing climate change, galloping inflation, slowing economic growth, and, more than anything else, the outbreak of a costly war in Europe and concerns that violent conflict could soon erupt in Asia.

Middle ranking powers are emerging as important policy arbiters. They are seeking global outcomes that better respond to their own interests as China and the US become the dominant global economic actors, each offering competing approaches to development.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the passing of Martin Carter, Gemma Robinson spoke to Nicholas Laughlin from Alice Yard, an art collective in Port of Spain, about art, activations, and a project linking writing and drawing with Carter’s work at the heart of it.

We Guyanese have been selling our natural assets to foreigners for five hundred years or more, from red annatto for dyeing cloth, now to oil for powering vehicles. 

Globally, corruption is a corrosive influence that undermines public faith in institutions resulting in diminished citizen security, stunted economic growth, and a drain on public and private resources.