Daily Features

By  Felipe Larraín and Pepe Zhang SANTIAGO – Once a peripheral presence in Latin America, China has become one of the region’s most important partners.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana The world has changed and is changing still, before our very eyes.

It is not often that well-resourced and politically powerful companies such as ExxonMobil and Shell suffer historic defeats.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – As US President Joe Biden prepares to meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, the stakes might not seem all that high.

Corruption threatens the stability and security of societies, undermining the institutions and values of democracy, ethical values and justice, and jeopardizing sustainable development and the rule of law.

      (In memory of Aziz Choudry, 1966-1921) By David Austin     David Austin is the author of Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution, Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal (winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize) and editor of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Shaping of Global Consciousness (2018).

Introduction This column which last appeared on April 17, 2020, is returning for a short series.

Parents burying their children As one’s life on earth – even, yes even in big beautiful blighted Guyana – passes seventy and eighty, one makes time to reflect, wonder, lament and hope.

Over the years, the celebration of Pride month in the Caribbean has slowly been morphing from one that has operated in hushed spaces, towards one that is steadily visible in all of its flamboyant glory.

As thousands of Guyanese struggle to cope with weeks of widespread flooding and the extensive losses of crops, livestock and livelihoods in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the American energy titan, ExxonMobil (XOM) ironically announced its 20th oil and gas discovery offshore.  Moving ahead with developing the rich Stabroek block, a prized high value asset, ExxonMobil did not bother to even specify yesterday, how much this find at Longtail-3, like the previous at the Uaru-2 well in April, would add to the earlier gross discovered recoverable resource estimate of well over 9 billion barrels of oil and gas, drawn from the deep Atlantic Ocean waters of this poor country turned petro-state.

By  Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – Slight increases in the rate of inflation in the United States and Europe have triggered financial-market anxieties.

By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE – On June 5, the world’s leading economies announced an agreement that will bolster their ability to raise taxes on global corporations.

Just over a week ago, Argentina’s Health Minister, Carla Vizzotti, and her Cuban counterpart, Dr José Angel Portal, signed a letter of intent that may lead to the joint production in Argentina of some of the vaccines Cuba has developed against COVID-19.

In fact, climate change is already becoming visible in more frequent occurrences of secondary perils such as flash floods, droughts and forest fires.

By Aaron Kamugisha By Aaron Kamugisha  (Aaron Kamugisha is Professor of Caribbean and Africana Thought at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus) Part I was published on May 31, 2021 and can be accessed at https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/05/31/features/in-the-diaspora/the-responsibilities-of-caribbean-intellectuals/

Several communities across the country are inundated. Almost every region has been severely affected by floods.

The tragedy and politics of floods My captioned three-part miscellany – or potpourri  – will be as brief as they are diverse today.

“While we need organizing that is anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist, our organizing must also be anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, and against all forms of exploitation, subordination and discrimination.”

The Atlantic waters on the southern side of Tobago can be rough even for seasoned sailors.

By Chris Patten LONDON – The late George Shultz, US Secretary of the Treasury under President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan, was one of the finest public servants in recent American history.