Daily Features

Moving beyond LGBTQI+visibility

In a little over a month, Guyanese LGBTQI+ persons and allies will begin celebrating Pride, an annual event aimed at not only highlighting love and gender identity in all its forms, but also a period of reflecting how far we have come and how far we still have to go.

Public-private decarbonization

By  Laura Tyson and Daniel Weiss BERKELEY – As we mark the 52nd Earth Day, we must recognize that achieving net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 will require significant investment to finance the necessary economic and social transitions.

Latin America’s New Pink Tide?

By Jorge G. Castañeda MEXICO CITY – If former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva reclaims the post in this October’s election (as now seems likely), and if Colombia’s leftist presidential candidate, Gustavo Petro, wins in May, their victories would build on a wave that began with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s victory in 2018.

Auditing of the public accounts:

In last week’s article, we discussed four of the seven infrastructure development projects financed by the Exim Bank of China that ran into serious difficulties during their execution stages – the Skeldon Sugar Modernisation Project; the One Laptop Per Family Project; the Fibre Optic Cable Project; and the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Project.

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