Daily Features

Readers – and my Editor – could recognize a relative “time-out” with this offering today.

While the region continues to face the threat of a mounting pandemic that will most likely stay with us for quite some time, we are also in the midst of an increasing climate crisis.

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Out in the cold, pitch blackness witnessed by only the stars, the small, 20-foot boat with six men tossed and bucked in the rough seas.

By  Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – A flurry of assaults on freedom of the press in recent months has raised troubling questions about the state of India’s democracy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

By Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana Guyana’s fundamental challenge fifty five years after its independence, is to knit its peoples within a vision of justice, human rights, and equitable life chances.

By Karina Gould OTTAWA – It has been a year since the coronavirus pandemic started dominating headlines and our lives.

Last month Britain published two significant post-Brexit policy documents setting out its future thinking on foreign policy, defence, security, and development.

By Dani Rodrik Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F.

In last week’s article, we began a discussion of the important topic of public financial management (PFM), drawing in part on the contents of the recently released Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report entitled “Economic Institutions for a Resilient Caribbean” as well as our own experience of the subject.

Twice now my messages to friends have been left unread because they succumbed to COVID-19.

It is no secret that Guyana has a drug problem. The increasing creativity and scope of its drug operations has found its way into local and international entertainment.

-Pandemic humour … I believe that it’s the United Nations Organisation – the UN – which determines how far out or how much of a sea or ocean belongs to some country that is contiguous to that mighty body of water.

I received a recent, surprising call from a close relative in Northern Europe, telling me that she is being offered the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, but was too afraid to take it.

In considering the 2020 US State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in Guyana I discerned three inclusions that in the present context are worthy of comment.

By Joseph S. Nye CAMBRIDGE – During Joe Biden’s long career in the US Senate, he established a record of supporting human rights as a goal of American foreign policy.

By Adair Turner LONDON – Climate-policy discussions often focus on who will pay the cost of achieving a zero-carbon economy, with a particular focus on industrial sectors such as steel and cement.

Last week, the print media reported on certain aspects of the recently released Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report as they relate to Guyana.

Me kite, you balluh? Perhaps unashamedly, most of the sentiments of my lead caption are repeats from almost exactly three years ago.

In the halls of power, anything goes. So frequent are accusations of physical and economic violence that both politicians and the public have adopted a blasé attitude towards it all.