Daily Features

By Lilia Burunciuc Lilia Burunciuc is the World Bank Director for Caribbean countries.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – Thirty-five years ago, the world experienced an epochal change with the collapse of European communism.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana.

Last Friday was Budget Day 2025 – the day that everyone was looking forward to for an assessment of the performance of the country’s economy in 2024 and its state of affairs at the end of that year.

By Fred Nunes Fred. Now retired, lectured at the University of the West Indies and worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the World Bank.

By Maya Delaney and Aminath Shauna NASSAU/MALÉ – Small island developing states (SIDS) are on the front lines of climate change, threatened by rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and ocean warming and acidification, despite contributing the least to global greenhouse-gas emissions.

By Carlos Felipe Jaramillo The Latin America and Caribbean region faces much uncertainty in 2025.

There are young people enquiring about the number of people of African descent who were killed during the crime spree in the early 2000s.

By Yana Gevorgyan GENEVA – This year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where participants will address the theme of “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age,” comes at a critical juncture for the planet.

By Angela Bandemehr and Albert Park WASHINGTON, DC/MANILA – Lead is everywhere, often hiding in plain sight – in the water you drink, the air you breathe, the food you eat, your personal care products, and your children’s toys.

By Debasish Roy Chowdhury HONG KONG – Weeks before his return to the White House, US President-elect Donald Trump issued a pointed warning to the BRICS countries.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Barrister-at-Law. Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law.

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM – In 2019, when Donald Trump first proclaimed that the United States should “buy Greenland,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen rightly dismissed the idea as “absurd.”

In our last two articles, we commenced highlighting the significant issues that we covered in our Accountability Watch column in 2024.

By Byron Blake Ambassador Byron Blake is former deputy permanent representative to the United Nations and former assistant secretary general of CARICOM.

Introduction In commemoration of the renowned artist Stanley Greaves’ 90 birthday, the Sunday Stabroek will be featuring images of some of his artwork accompanied by poems written by him.

BERLIN – We just got a foretaste of the bizarre stream of consciousness that will be emanating from the White House over the next four years: the United States might start expanding territorially by taking over Greenland, the Panama Canal, and maybe Canada as well.

The silly season 2025 has officially begun. Sometime this year Guyanese are expected to vote in general and regional elections and as usual during every election period there are those who choose to walk into the darkness that is their lower selves.

By Thiago Barral and Woochong Um RIO DE JANEIRO/NEW YORK – November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, dubbed the “Finance COP,” left many deeply disappointed – for good reason.

By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE – The world economy awaits with dread the arrival of Donald Trump’s trade tariffs.