Daily Features

By Percy C. Hintzen Percy C. Hintzen is a native of Guyana. 

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Human rights constitute the glue that can hold societies together world-wide, especially diverse societies like Guyana.

Senior citizens carry this nation on their backs, like a burden they can only unload in death.

By Vera Songwe, Nicholas Stern, and Amar Bhattacharya LONDON – The dust has now settled after the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, but there are still many unanswered questions about how to finance emissions reductions and adaptation.

One thing that is absolutely loved by governments who care more about staying perpetually fixed in their re-election campaigns rather than implementing progressive changes, is the allure of consultations.

Trouble!? With Christmas? At Christmas time? Seriously? Yes! You see friends, frankly speaking, this “season” is tailor-made to evoke and evince both the good and the worst in too many of us.

By Commonwealth Secretary-General, The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC As we head towards the end of the year, many of us will soon be surrounded by our family and friends sitting around dinner tables as we celebrate the festive season.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – The world heaved a sigh of relief this month when the feared “red wave” of Republican victories in the US midterms failed to materialize.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Barrister-at-Law Author of ‘Modernizing the Role of the International Court of Justice’ (2022) Over four days between 17 and 22 November, Guyana’s lawyers put up a valiant battle to secure the country’s territorial integrity in the face of arguments by an imaginative group of lawyers for Venezuela.

Before proceeding with today’s article, a brief comment is appropriate in relation to recent statements made by Floyd Haynes on a Kaieteur News radio programme on the audit of Exxon’s post-contract costs covering the period 2018-2020.

by Vidyaratha Kissoon (Vidyaratha Kissoon lives in Guyana. He realised that beating children was wrong after doing anti-violence work with Help & Shelter and other organisations and individuals who recognised that we need to stop beating children as a cultural practice if we want to end gender based and other forms of violence) Consultation “She used to come in de class, beat everybody..

By Bill Emmott LONDON – Companies have long had to manage “key person risk,” even taking out insurance against the possibility of losing top executives through death, illness, or injury.

Recently I saw a Consumers Affairs Commission ad. It was released in December 2020, but I had never seen it before a few days ago.

All around us, there is verifiable evidence about the way fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas are speeding up the warming of the earth.

Football – the beautiful game- For Christmas Saint Luke, Chapter Two and its numerous verses tell of what Christians refer to as the Nativity – the story of the birth of the Christ Child.

By Joschka Fischer BERLIN – We are witnessing an unprecedented confluence of major and minor crises.

By Dr. Carissa Etienne, Director, Pan American Health Organization The COVID-19 pandemic has left an indelible mark on our lives and on our societies.

LONDON – The World Bank is on the cusp of a major transformation.

A week ago, the twenty-seventh UN conference on climate change (COP27) ended.

Just yesterday Guyana Speaks was thrilled to celebrate the artist, maker of things and living legend Stanley Greaves, who celebrated his 88th birthday on November 22.