Daily Features

      By Ryan Persadie and Mohamed Q. Amin (Caribbean Equality Project)     Ryan Persadie is artist, educator, and PhD candidate at the University of Toronto.

Directors of Superior Concrete Inc., a foreign company in Guyana, disrespected Housing Minister Colin Croal, Chief Executive Officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority Sherwyn Greaves and staff of the CH&PA’s Enforcement Department.

As the tepid battle against COVID-19 continues, the push for achieving herd immunity through vaccination has been one enthusiastically adopted by local, regional and international governments.

Costly blunders, avoidable embarrassments Regarding my lead caption and issue(s), I have to be extremely cautious lest I upset a few readers.

In 2014, the South Florida Business Journal briefly reported that the foreclosed 300-unit Whispering Isles apartment complex in popular Pompano Beach, not far from the busy Interstate 95, finally sold for US$22.5M.

By Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana Peoples’ perceptions count in politics.

NEW YORK – The only way to end the COVID-19 pandemic is to immunize enough people worldwide.

By Junaid Nabi BOSTON – When I was growing up in northern India’s Kashmir Valley, my physician father would often accompany me when I received my annual vaccinations.

If the pandemic has demonstrated anything it is that much improved internet connectivity, reliability and security have become unavoidable priorities for the Caribbean.

At the recently held 2021 Petersberg Climate Dialogue in preparation for the Conference of Parties (COP) meeting at the end of the year, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres gave a stark assessment of where the world stands on climate change.

By Kimberly J. Palmer and Adrian Fraser Kimberly Palmer was born and raised in St.

I thought about Kescia Branche this week. Kescia, my theatre colleague, was murdered three years ago.

– No Guyanese illegals at the Southern Border? Two introductory points upfront: since numerous analysts, commentators and editorial writers will assess the PPP government’s performance after one year at the end of July, I offer cursory comments rights now – after nine months; and secondly, as I frequently do, I concede that I’m not capable of the more scientific “political analyses”.

Mental illness, despite the marginal progress we have made, continues to be a persistently troublesome issue within Guyana.

A young medical student was driving home last Sunday, when the frantic siren of a speeding ambulance forced her to pull aside and stop.

A young medical student was driving home last Sunday, when the frantic siren of a speeding ambulance forced her to pull aside and stop.

By Harry Hergash Between 1838 and 1917 around 240,000 Indian immigrants were recruited and brought to British Guiana, now Guyana, under the Indentureship scheme to  provide manual labour on the sugar plantations of the then British colony.

By Victor Galaz STOCKHOLM – Silicon Valley leaders tell us that the Fourth Industrial Revolution will bring untold benefits.

By  Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – The governments of South Africa, India, and dozens of other developing countries are calling for the rights on intellectual property (IP), including vaccine patents, to be waived to accelerate the worldwide production of supplies to fight COVID-19.

Vaccine inequity has become a matter of deep global concern. The issue, the WHO’s Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told a recent meeting of the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), is “the challenge of our time”.