Daily Features

There was a story on social media this week about an employee attached to the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs who is based in Region 9.

By May Boeve BERKELEY – This year was a tumultuous one in many ways.

What’s your “planet”? January Girls Welcome to this first brief offering for a still new year within this month that will mark thirty (30) years of this man-in-the-street column.

It’s a new year, and with it comes the government’s reignited commitment toward the “One Guyana” agenda.

By  Joseph S. Nye CAMBRIDGE – The failure of China’s zero-COVID policy is leading to a reassessment of Chinese power.

By Guo Haiyan, Chinese Ambassador to Guyana Happy New Year, dear friends!

By Danuta Radzik, Vanda Radzik and Raphael Singh All three authors are Guyanese born and resident Guyanese citizens.

By Wazim Mowla Recently elected President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was inaugurated earlier this week, which was attended by President Irfaan Ali as well as many leaders across Latin America and the Caribbean.

By Richard Haass NEW YORK – The American baseball player Lawrence “Yogi” Berra is widely quoted as observing, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”

Accepting gifts, honours and favours in connection with official duties may give rise to a real or apparent conflict of interest, as it may be seen to create an obligation.

We call ourselves a civilized nation yet over the holidays the garbage rotted in the streets because for three weeks and counting the garbage collectors have not been seen in some areas.

By Joschka Fischer BERLIN – In October, the Communist Party of China convened its 20th National Congress, primarily to confirm President Xi Jinping’s hold over the country’s leadership.

Guyanese Americans – Documented and naturalised On this last 2022 weekend – the cusp of a brand new year in our part of the world it is almost natural to ponder, wonder, cogitate, speculate, be curious as to what that imminent period, 2023, will present to us as a nation.

By Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Anastassia Fedyk, and Ilona Sologoub BERKELEY – On August 1, 1991, a little more than three weeks before Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union, US President George H.W.

Last week, we began to outline the various initiatives that Guyana has taken over the years to not only address the issue of corruption in the public sector but also enhance public financial management and accountability in general.

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.