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(A column of Transparency Institute Guyana Inc) In the part 4 we described how even before Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) began to write on the petroleum contract and advocated for insurance to be included in local content (we had not then made representation for oil spill protection as we began to make recently) Berbice fishermen had demanded oil spill insurance.

In part 3 we showed that oil companies seemed to have no trouble providing insurance to protect foreign stakeholders and how moral hazard featured in banking, so much so that it helped bring down the financial system in 2007/8.

Fearful streets, private security Even after the late GAWU’s Komal Chand “revealed” to me the Holy Man’s original Hindu name, I remained a fan of the West Demerara based Swami Aksharananda.

We can learn many lessons from the way that political groups and others in power treat and respond to allegations of abuse by those within their leadership.

(A Transparency Institute Guyana Inc column) (Editor’s note: This is the third instalment in a five-part series.

By Frederick Collins In Part 1 of our response to Dr.

By Ulric O’D Trotz Now retired,  Ulric (Neville) Trotz was formerly the Deputy Director & Science Adviser, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belmopan, Belize In a Reuters article in the Stabroek News  in their publication of April 26th , 2022,  entitled “Sand crisis looms as world population surges, U.N.

Press attention to accountability has never been more important in Guyana with a historically large revenue stream entering government coffers and a regularly stated intent to use those resources for a development agenda that cuts across all regions and races…There is also a larger principle at stake that strong democracies require free information flow in the public marketplace of opinions and ideas.

Guyanese women sometimes end up in cold, dark, shallow places, where earthworms whisper and maggots’ feast.

Earlier this week, news broke that the US Supreme Court had done a private vote with the intention to strike down Roe vs.

(Poor?) GECOM Chairpersons Hello friends Consider the term   “single-parents”. Does it mean unmarried parents?

By Aziz Huq CHICAGO – For the first time in American history, an insider at the US Supreme Court has deliberately disclosed a draft opinion in a high-profile case with the apparent intent of altering either the Court’s deliberations, or the public’s reactions to the putative decision.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva NEW YORK – In late 1999, as the frail Boris Yeltsin searched for a successor among the ranks of the security services, a bleak joke circulated in Russia.

Earlier last  month at a conference on Caribbean security, Barbados’ Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, spoke about the consequences of the war in Ukraine and the now unavoidable impact it will have on the cost of food, energy, fertiliser, and transport.

By Nicole Burrowes Nicole Burrowes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

The burning of fossil fuels to produce energy releases greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane into the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans.

Earlier this month, the Mandela to Eccles four lane highway was opened.

I’m sure that I was advised by some knowledgeable superiors during my own active People’s National Congress (PNC) “days”, long ago, that I could be jailed for refusing to register as a voter.

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.

By Red Thread Red Thread’s members are primarily grassroots women, who live daily with various forms of economic and social insecurity.