Daily Features

Restoring PetroCaribe

Venezuela is hoping to resuscitate its PetroCaribe programme. Against a background of surging global oil prices, the country’s gradual economic recovery, political change in Latin America, and a carefully crafted dialogue with the US, Russia, China, and Iran, Caracas is seeking to reposition itself as a swing energy state.

Seven bullets

Murdered young men in Guyana are often condemned in death. Killed without a trial, conviction, or a sentence for death, like a public stoning, where even after livor mortis has begun, the stones continue to be thrown.

Guyana’s Local Content Law

Going forward, we will continue to partner with you on inclusive democracy, economic development, and citizen security for all Guyanese, and to promote the public values of – transparency, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility – values that inform policies reflecting good governance and a participatory democracy where all voices are heard.

US influence in the Americas is waning

The recently ended Summit of the Americas will likely be best remembered for the US decision not to invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, the chaotic unprepared way in which Washington tried to manage this, and the decision by some hemispheric leaders, most notably Mexico’s President, not to attend.

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