Daily Features

-Light Americana-trivia Just a “heads-up” to my weekly regulars and all others – that today’s offering will be pure brevity.

After many debates, stalled promises and arguments that it could not be afforded, the minimum wage for the private sector was last week set to be raised to $60,000.The

– Part 98  Introduction Last week’s column began a short series on the 2021 financial performance of the three companies – Esso, Hess and CNOOC – which hold 45%, 30%, and 25% respectively of the highly productive Stabroek Block, a find which has placed Guyana on the world’s petroleum map.

According to a new study, the two Antarctic glaciers – the Thwaites Glacier, also known as Doomsday Glacier about the size of Great Britain, and the slightly smaller Pine Island Glacier – are melting so fast that they are now losing ice at a faster rate than any time over the past 5,500 years.

By Melinda Janki Melinda Janki is an attorney-at-law practising in Guyana and an international lawyer who has worked in over 20 countries.

The stories of young men being killed under suspicious circumstances by police are continuously being written in Guyana.

(Part 97) It is more than five months since the 96th column was published in the Stabroek News on January 22nd of this year.

Two presidents, agri and food It gives me no pleasure whatsoever to be so absolutely negative about my homeland today.

Recently, the death anniversary of revolutionary feminist icon, Andaiye was celebrated.

Frequently Asked Questions about the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) Some persons who are over age 21 may still qualify for immigration benefits as a “child”.

By  Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – Two episodes in the first week of June starkly illustrate both the promise of Indian foreign policy and the pitfalls it faces as a result of the country’s increasingly toxic domestic political culture.

Could the threat of global food shortages finally unite CARICOM? Will it cause member states to act together, making real the CSME’s promise of effective regional cooperation and economic security?

We face a world in peril. From the war in Ukraine in all its dimensions to the deepening impacts of the climate crisis; from the COVID-19 pandemic to escalating humanitarian needs, hunger and poverty, the months ahead will test the multilateral system.

Editor’s note: Amidst the photo ops and handshakes, two principled speeches stood out at the recently concluded 9th Summit of the Americas this year.

On the 23rd of May, Reonol Williams was hit by a car on the Enmore Public Road sometime after midnight.

Living in a cis-heteronormative world wherein anyone deviating from strict gender and sexuality binaries is seen as abnormal, it can be an incredibly challenging space for those who identify as LGBTQI+.

Recognising Lamming’s appreciation I’ll restrain myself after today’s offering in this space.

By Richard Drayton (Richard Drayton, born in Guyana and also a citizen of Barbados, is a Professor of Imperial and  Global History at King’s College London) With the death of George Lamming on June 4 (he would have been 95 today, June 8), we lost our last living connection to the generation who laid the spiritual foundations for Caribbean independence. 

By Fernando Nogales Non-Resident Ambassador  of Spain to Guyana Yesterday a consignment of 52, 800 doses of paediatric vaccines arrived into this country and similar batches have been sent and are to be sent to other countries in the region soon.

By Brian A. Nichols, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs  Maleka Russell, a Guyanese alumna of the State Department’s Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative, owns an organic farm in Kwakwani that had major flooding in 2021, so Maleka decided to change her business to broiler production.