Daily Features

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. 

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.