Daily Features

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.

This is the third in a series of articles on the 2021 Auditor General’s report on the public accounts.

Some may say that there is something sinister happening in Guyana’s waters and that it may seem as if water spirits are calling for human sacrifices.

The question of leaving these shores is one that the majority of Guyanese have had to face at least once in their life.

Our world today – gender – re-assigning Upfront let me record my solid position as a government pensioner frequently creating assignments to assist paying monthly bills from time to time: public servants’ basic salaries should have been increased by fifteen (15%) percent, if not higher!

By Jeremy Daum and Moritz Rudolf NEW HAVEN – A recent report by the NGO Safeguard Defenders about the existence of “secret Chinese police stations” in cities around the world, including New York, has sparked investigations in several European countries and attracted the attention of the FBI.