How to create more good jobs
By Simon Johnson WASHINGTON, DC – In many countries, innovation and good jobs have become increasingly concentrated in a few places.
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.
Last Friday’s Stabroek News editorial captioned “The AG and the Judiciary” referred to High Court decision in the case involving the enforcement of an arbitral award by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) against the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA.
Every year we celebrate Emancipation and still some people are yet to be free.
By Gordon Brown EDINBURGH – The Council of Europe, often criticized for being overly cautious, is flexing its muscles.
By Charles A. Kupchan WASHINGTON, DC – Kamala Harris can win the US presidency.
By Reed Galen WASHINGTON, DC – Books will be written about the last month in American politics.
Interview and photos by Nazima Raghubir For this week’s Cost of Living series, Nazima Raghubir spoke to people in Kako, Region Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni).
A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.
By Lear Matthews Lear Matthews is Professor Emeritus and former Lecturer at University of Guyana.
By Carlos Alvarado-Quesada SAN JOSÉ – In a highly divisive presidential-election year, there is at least one point on which more than half of American voters agree: immigration is a top priority.
There is trouble on our roads. The results of recklessness reached a point of crisis eons ago.
TURIN – US President George H.W. Bush once remarked that, “No nation on Earth has discovered a way to import the world’s goods and services while stopping foreign ideas at the border.”
By Nina L. Khrushcheva NEW YORK – “We cling to power as a flea clings to a collar,” Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, my great-grandfather, declared in 1957.
By Renzo R. Guinto SINGAPORE – People across Asia have eagerly awaited the end of heat-wave season, which now appears to be drawing to a close.
Last week, the Minister of Home Affairs stated that: the ‘biggest immediate ongoing problem’ of the Guyana Police Force is allegations of corruption in procurement; and he has an obligation to make sure that ‘there is an accounting for the people’s sweat, wealth and labour which comes to us for the operations and administration of the Guyana Police Force’.
By Red Thread, Guyana A recent regional hearing on corporal punishment and its impact on the rights of children in the Caribbean was organized by the Inter American Commission on Human Rights.
By John W. McArthur and Zia Khan NEW YORK – It is a truism in the business world that vision without execution is a hallucination, and execution without vision is futile.
By Eric Parrado WASHINGTON, DC – Long before he became a leading theologian, Saint Augustine famously appealed to God: “Lord, grant me chastity and continence – but not yet.”
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