Daily Features

African descendants in Guyana recently celebrated another year of emancipation from the heinous system of enslavement our ancestors were trapped under.

It’s August! Explore Guyana! These few remarks probably best simplifies my personal understandings, approaches and stressful intolerance with respect to the concept and related issues regarding race.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Previously Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute  and Chancellor of the University of Guyana In a previous essay on the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, I suggested that the opportunity exists to build a New Guyana on consensual policy foundations.

By Errol Brewster Errol Ross Brewster is a Caribbean artist from Guyana, who has lived in Barbados, and is currently living in the United States.

In last week’s article, we discussed the state of Guyana’s economy as reflected in the Bank of Guyana report for the first quarter of 2022.

There was a motion by the Opposition to discuss the rising cost of living, but the Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir withdrew the motion.

My two favourite “Freedom Issues” I took a break from my usual Emancipation Lamentations in this space for a few years.

In 2023, CARICOM will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Plans are underway for what may be a year-long celebration.

By SASOD Guyana’s Human Rights Programme Jennifer Anderson is a Legal Intern working with SASOD Guyana through the Canadian Bar Association’s Young Lawyers International Programme, supported by Global Affairs Canada.

Last week, the temperature in several parts of Europe reached an all-time record high of 42 degrees Celsius, triggering massive wildfires in France, Spain, Portugal and Greece and causing thousands of residents to flee their homes.

It is a shame that in a resource-rich country, streets are allowed to deteriorate for months and years.

What “Amerindian”? What “indigenous”? I take my personal early “Augus’ holiday” in this column today.

Embassy of the United States of America         In this edition of our Ask-the-Consul article, we provide you with candid answers to some of the most popular questions you have about the status of non-immigrant visa processing in Guyana.

STOCKHOLM – After World War II, global diplomatic efforts sought to create a new international order that would prevent the world from descending into war, chaos, and anarchy again.

EDINBURGH – At recent gatherings of G7 leaders, NATO members, and G20 foreign ministers, it was clear to everyone that the world is facing a confluence of emergencies unlike anything we have seen in decades.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Lee Kuan Yew and Forbes Burnham became Premiers in their respective countries around the same time in the early-1960s.

By Michael Witter Michael Witter is a Jamaican economist and committed regionalist, and former lecturer at the Mona, Jamaica Campus of the University of the West Indies Editor’s Note: The Caribbean has one of the highest net food import bills in the world, an issue that has been identified as a priority area for Caricom, with Guyanese President Irfaan Ali the most prominent advocate for local and regional food security, most recently in his address to Caricom Heads in Paramaribo that set a target for the region to decrease its current volume of food imports by 25% by 2025.

There have been further revelations by VICE News of alleged Chinese involvement in money laundering activities, the use of intermediaries, and the paying of bribes to secure government contracts, especially in relation to large infrastructure developmental works being undertaken.

Daily, the news in Guyana unfolds like a Lifetime movie, a soap opera, or a poorly written horror/thriller.

So what is “news”? Long-time students of journalism and communication would all explain and define: “news is new information made known”.