Daily Features

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.

By Gordon Brown EDINBURGH – The world has responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with sanctions, travel bans, and deliveries of humanitarian and military aid, all of which have been stepped up as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war crimes claim more lives every day.

By Carl Greenidge Guyana’s complaint before the ICJ against the Venezuelan Government is based on a number of factors among the most important of which is Venezuela’s breach of one fundamental legal principle, a state cannot sign a treaty, benefit from the implementation of its provisions for over 63 years then, when convenient, simply unilaterally declare the treaty null and void.

CARICOM Heads meeting in Belize could not have been clearer about the ‘perfect storm’ that is about to strike the Caribbean.

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

Corruption is a human rights issue, which ought to be recognized as such by States, the business community and civil society.