Daily Features

This week I had the privilege of traveling across the Rupununi.

Our poor City, our poor City Hall These “brief notes” will be just that – brief and hardly full of analyses.

Underreporting of crimes within the realm of sexual assault and harassment, has long been an issue of concern.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Director of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, 1992-96 Author: Contemporary Preventive Diplomacy, Routledge, 2020.

Nothing better illustrates the divide that exists between today’s Caribbean and its past than two unfortunate images of Prince William and his wife Catherine in Jamaica; one standing atop a land rover after a military event, and the other having to greet children in Trench Town through a wire fence.

By Penelope Howell Penelope (Penny) Howell is a trained teacher, and a community activist.

In response to the Stabroek News editorial of 20 March 2022 on the Marriott Hotel, former Finance Minister Winston Jordan provided some specifics on the loan of US$17.3 million that was taken from the Republic Bank of Trinidad and Tobago to finance the cost of construction of the Hotel.

Daily we are greeted by shocking headlines telling us about the gore and social issues.

By Daniel J. Arbess NEW YORK – Russian climate envoy Anatoly Chubais’s decision last week to resign from the government and leave Russia may turn out to be highly significant.

No penalties? Then wrongdoing thrives! I know – or am fairly certain – that on this page many years ago, I reported on this social phenomenon of fact.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva VIENNA – A grim old Soviet joke probably rings far too true to Ukrainians today.

Guyana is a country in which reality and fantasy can often blur in people’s minds.

By  Richard Haass NEW YORK – It is one month into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – On March 7, Russia stated three aims for its invasion of Ukraine: official Ukrainian neutrality, recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea, and recognition of the independence of pro-Russian separatist regions in Luhansk and Donetsk.

Last week, we reported that a heat wave is hitting the North and South Poles with temperature reaching 70 degrees and 50 degrees above normal, respectively.

By Charlene Wilkinson Charlene Wilkinson is a lecturer in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies at the University of Guyana, a founder member of the Guyanese Languages Unit Working Group, and a member of the Guyana-Haiti Support Group “The very idea of ‘border’ only applies to the extremely vulnerable and those in need.

The cries of Guyanese are often unheard. Doubts become muffled screams when the victims of this society’s dysfunction are ignored.

Hair, while it is a conversation that has been raging for quite some time now amongst the Black community, recently, it took on a national tone after the Ministry of Education (MoE) indicated that girls would be allowed to wear their hair without restriction for International Women’s Day (IWD).

Oil and elections: should I be scared? For the sake of still-friendly argument, I’ll believe Home Affairs and National Police Security Minister, Honourable Robeson Benn – named by his late father after the alleged communistic Afro-American singer Paul Robeson – that the enhanced city anti-crime plan was conceptualised since November last.

By Michael Ignatieff VIENNA – We know what Russian President Vladimir Putin wants in Ukraine: to wipe the country off the map.