By Magdalee Brunache
Magdalee Brunache is from Haiti, and is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science, specializing in Development Studies and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto
As I sit down to write this, it has just been announced that the humanitarian parole program, which allowed Haitians to enter the United States over the past two years, will not be renewed.
By Donald Rodney
Part 1 – preliminary bookmarks
Transparency under the Public Procurement Act 2003 (the Act or PPA2003) has been of interest in Guyana for some time.
By Nina L. Khrushcheva
MOSCOW – This is not strictly a review of Sergey Radchenko’s recent book, To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power.
The Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, has been indicted on five criminal counts in a corruption probe involving soliciting bribes from wealthy foreign businesspeople as well as receiving illegal campaign contributions from foreign nationals.
By Isaac ‘Asume’ Osuoka
Dr. Isaac ‘Asume’ Osuoka is a Fellow in Residence at the Department of Global and International Studies at Carleton University and a respected leader in global environmental and climate justice circles.
By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan
Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana; Barrister-at-Law; Honorary Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists
I am aware that constitutional revision in Guyana is a matter of high politics – and the political parties have not yet shown their hands.
By Shania Scotland
ROSEAU, DOMINICA – For most people, the idea of suddenly losing everything – their home, their possessions, and even their family members and friends – is unthinkable.
By Laurence Tubiana and Ana Toni
NEW YORK – It has been nearly ten years since countries came together in Paris and agreed finally to get serious about averting a climate disaster.
By Yanis Varoufakis
ATHENS – When the euro crisis was young, some of us became convinced that a massive public green investment program was necessary to save Europe from economic stagnation and from the ultra-right that would emerge as stagnation’s sole beneficiary.
By Gordon Brown
EDINBURGH – As many as 500 million children worldwide are either trapped in conflict zones or displaced by war and climate change, putting their right to an education at grave risk.
The Chinese authorities have suspended PwC Zhong Tian LLP for six months and have imposed of 441 million yuan (US$62 million) over the firm’s audit of the failed property developer, China Evergrande Group.
Dr Nigel Clarke and the IMF
By Byron Blake
Ambassador Byron Blake is former deputy permanent representative to the United Nations and former assistant secretary general of CARICOM.
By Chris Patten
LONDON – Since the golden age of Athenian democracy, freedom of speech has been viewed as a defining feature of open societies, even as it remains under constant attack.