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Nature’s fury adds to man’s inhumanity It was relatively easy for a one-time national election “animal” like me to become engrossed with the electoral goings–on – just past or current.

In 2021, the International Monetary Fund projected Guyana as the fourth largest growing economy in the world for 2022.

By Neville J. Bissember It was Benjamin Disraeli, former British Prime Minister during the nineteenth Century, who had famously said, “We have no permanent friend.

By Wazim Mowla The 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP27, is just around the corner.

By SASOD Guyana’s Human Rights Programme. This column was written by Human Rights Coordinator Melina Harris and edited by Managing Director Joel Simpson.

‘Indian son rises over empire. History comes full circle in Britain’, read the headline on India’s NDTV early morning news bulletin, indicating the fascination there and across much of the world that the UK, a country still struggling to find a post imperial role, should choose someone of British Asian origin as its latest Prime Minister.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva   NEW YORK – Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world is again facing the specter of a nuclear confrontation.

Mobile phones with cameras are some of the greatest inventions of our time.

Grounded in pro-democracy movements during the US-backed dictatorship in 1986, the Haitian Creole word, “Dechoukaj” became a clarion call for Haitian resistance.

The British Visa under the Brigadier These days – at my age and stage – I would always prefer to be considered as pro-truth and pro-fact, rather than pro-PPP, or pro-PNC, or pro- any other political outfit.

By Christopher Pissarides, Fadi Farra, and Amira Bensebaa LONDON – The digital age has taught businesses to see people as individuals rather than just as members of certain demographic cohorts.

By Yu Yongding BEIJING – When China’s GDP growth is below target, successive governments have relied on the same tool: government spending on infrastructure investment to stimulate the economy.

By Vélina Élysée Charlier, Alexandra “Sasha” Filippova and Tom Ricker Vélina Élysée Charlier (@VelinaEC) is a feminist and a political activist.

Last Tuesday, the State of New Jersey filed a lawsuit against five oil and gas companies and a petroleum trade organization – ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, ConocoPhillips and the American Petroleum Institute to which they are affiliated – alleging that they had known for decades about the harmful impact of fossil fuels on climate change but instead deceived the public about that link.

Since 2020 when the mutilated bodies of Isaiah and Joel Henry were found, their relatives have been standing on a bridge over troubled waters.

Loving and paying for pets Just recently I was influenced to repeat a story once narrated to me because of a quite similar tale shared.  Both similar stories provoked thoughts even debate, with regard to human nature accepting – or rejecting – the morality of former criminals, convicts, crooked politicians or evil fraudsters changing their former lives of mischief to become upright “exemplary” citizens.

By  Reza Aslan RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA – The nationwide protests in Iran over women’s rights and abuses by the religious morality police have once again shone a light on the country’s ruling clerical class and the seemingly limitless powers of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Land ownership has always been seen as a symbol of generational wealth and security, due to the important role in personal and collective development that it is seen to play.

No one should be in doubt. A toxic economic mix consisting of a war in Europe, surging inflation, slowing Chinese growth, a probable global recession, and a decision to cut production to increase oil prices by OPEC-plus, the cartel which now includes Russia, threaten to set back Caribbean tourism recovery.

Installment 22-10 Many people are interested in immigrating to the United States but do not have a qualifying family member or employer to sponsor them.