Daily Features

By Vidyaratha Kissoon Vidyaratha Kissoon is involved in the work for gender equality Stopping Violence against Women and Girls without Gender Equality?

On New Year’s Day, the authoritarian government of the oil-rich nation of Kazakhstan removed the subsidy on fuel prices, sparking countrywide protests not only because of the resulting higher gas prices but also over issues relating to inequality, poverty and corruption.

By Dr Baytoram Ramharack Since its conceptual evolution some three decades ago, COOLITUDE, a neologism advanced by Mauritian cultural theorist Khaleel Torabully, has grown into an intellectual framework that led to the production of a number of studies on the global Indian indenture experience.

The year 2021 has ended but the ending of a year does not signal the disappearance of the challenges we grappled with the previous 12 months.

Three years ago, the reality that we are currently living in only seemed possible in dystopian films and novels.

One week into a “Happy”(?) New Year? It has to be one major historical misfortune of this country’s political existence.

Imagining a better future for the Caribbean is not hard, but delivering it is becoming infinitely more complex.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – The restrictive, illiberal trend that has come to characterize India over the last five years has a new data point.

A recent study conducted by the UK charity, Christian Aid, assessed the cost of the damage caused by ten of last year’s most devastating weather events at around US$170 billion.

Editor’s Note: On December 30, 2021, President Irfaan Ali assented to the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Bill which was controversially passed on Wednesday, 29 December 2021 in the National Assembly.

On civil defiance and lawlessness I’ve decided that this contribution will be one of the shorter man-in-the-street columns that this Friday feature represents.

There is something about a New Year that makes you start thinking about a fresh start.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan In the dark era of colonial and racist oppression, in the 1940s, a talented young Guyanese, James Barrington Parris, succeeded in enrolling at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he attended an impromptu lecture on the theory of relativity by no less an eminence than the great Albert Einstein.

By Mabel van Oranje LONDON – With the passing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the world has lost an unstoppable force for good who taught compassion and forgiveness, and pursued his mission with a will of iron.

Why death heralds his Birth I’ll voluntarily plead guilty to my personal post-seventy cynicism, with creeping indifference, regarding this still-somewhat-endearing “season” of Christmas.

Whenever conversations surrounding masculinity arise, one is often prompted to ask what is meant by it.

The distinct bittersweet fragrance accented with smoky notes, select spices, crisp bay leaves and blazing hot peppers will waft through the homes of Guyanese, as we prepare to celebrate Christmas with our most famous national dish.

By Henrietta H. Fore and David Malpass WASHINGTON, DC – As the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic approaches, classrooms remain fully or partially closed for as many as 647 million schoolchildren around the world.

The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is about the size of Florida.

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