Daily Features

By Laura Alfers and Christy Braham JOHANNESBURG/WASHINGTON, DC – Today’s escalating climate crisis disproportionately affects the world’s two billion informal workers.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva SALZBURG – Early in this century, I was told, the United Kingdom compiled a list of the ten most important actions to take in the event of an emergency.

By Lili Fuhr and James Kerry BERLIN/ZURICH – Life on Earth would not exist without the oceans and their interconnected and fragile ecosystems, many of which we barely understand.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana Sometime Fellow of Harvard University and Fellow of the LSE In an eye-opening and much acclaimed new book, Autocracy Inc.,

Last week, we concluded our discussion of the two Supplementary Estimates totalling $40.8 million that the National Assembly approved three weeks ago.

By Samuel Brathwaite Dr. Samuel Braithwaite is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at The University of the West Indies, Mona.

Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana  Must Become Oil-Minded Column 134 Introduction This column is a continuation from last week which featured an adaptation of a presentation I made at an OGGN sponsored activity in New York last July 27.

Two Fridays ago, the National Assembly approved two financial papers presented by the Minister of Finance seeking Supplementary Estimates in the sum of $40.8 billion.

Like many Guyanese, I prefer to live in Guyana. This is home and no matter where in the world one travels there will never be a place like home.

By Nicholas Reed Langen LONDON – One of the few commendable acts of Liz Truss’s bizarre career came in March 2022, when, as British foreign secretary, she supported the withdrawal of British judges from the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.

Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Column 133 Introduction This column is an adaptation of a presentation I made at an OGGN sponsored activity in New York last July 27.

Ask-the-Consul Installment 24-08 Embassy of the United States of America100 Duke & Young Streets, Kingston,  Georgetown, Guyana  Many family-sponsored immigrant visa applicants have questions about the eligibility of their children who turn age 21 while their petition is pending. 

By  M. Niaz Asadullah DHAKA – The Yemeni peace activist Tawakkol Karman once said that youth is a revolution; they cannot be stopped, they cannot be oppressed, and they cannot be silenced.

On 29 July 2024, the Chief Justice ruled that the 30 percent excise tax imposed by the Guyana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) on a vehicle brought into the country by a remigrant on 28 June 2024, was unlawful.

By Gabrielle Jamela Hosein Gabrielle Jamela Hosein is a feminist, activist, poet and Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, and also writes a column in the Trinidad Newsday.

Often, we see reports about missing teenaged girls. Sometimes it is reported that they returned home but without any information about why they were missing, if they were harmed and if there are interventions to protect, guide and counsel them.

INNSBRUCK/LONDON – In 1853, under orders from President Millard Fillmore, US Navy Commodore Matthew Perry led four warships on a mission to persuade Japan to end its 200-year-old isolationist policy.

By Simon Johnson WASHINGTON, DC – In many countries, innovation and good jobs have become increasingly concentrated in a few places.

By Renata Narita RIO DE JANEIRO – Despite robust labor regulations, Latin American countries have exceptionally high turnover rates.

By Neville Trotz Now retired,  Ulric (Neville) Trotz was formerly the Deputy Director & Science Adviser, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belmopan, Belize.