Daily Features

By Joschka Fischer BERLIN – In addition to a pandemic, this decade has already been overshadowed by the return of great power rivalries.

By Raghuram G. Rajan CHICAGO – With President Joe Biden’s administration recommitting the United States to the Paris climate agreement, and with a major United Nations climate-change conference (COP26) coming later this year, there is new hope for meaningful global policies to meet the challenge.

Sometime in the next twelve months, when the pandemic is fully brought under control in North America and Europe, visitors will return to the Caribbean in significant numbers.

Last Wednesday, a Dutch court ordered Royal Dutch Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent from its 2019 levels by 2030.

Part One     Almost every summer, as the academic year ends, I am drawn towards re-reading a short, compelling article published over seventy-five years ago.

I was unmoved by the sound of the fireworks on Tuesday night.

Over the decades, several international charities and aid organizations have made a home in Guyana.

Our police travails – real and fake (?) My own vital formative years – six to twenty-one – were spent in the George-town ward of Alberttown.

For nearly a mile, tens of thousands of hand-painted red and pink hearts brighten a grey concrete London wall stretching along the southern bank of the rippling River Thames, with its mossy barriers and passing boats.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana In two previous offerings we discussed the need for historical analysis of Guyana’s ethnic predicament drawing upon the experiences of our various peoples, and we looked at the strategies of the late Dr Cheddi Jagan to promote national reconciliation and unity.

By Zhang Jun SHANGHAI – Last month, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee officially backed the Strategic Competition Act of 2021, which labels China a strategic competitor in a number of areas, including trade, technology, and security.

By Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel BERKELEY/CHICAGO – US President Joe Biden’s decision to back the call for waiving intellectual-property protections for COVID-19 vaccines reflects the extent of global pressure for universal vaccine access.

Will the decision by several US cruise lines to home port in the Caribbean this summer become a permanent fixture, or is it just a temporary work around?

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been accused of illegally financing his 2012 re-election campaign.

By Angelique V. Nixon & Alissa Trotz Angelique V. Nixon is a Bahamas-born, Trinidad-based writer, scholar and activist.

Surviving COVID-19 is not just about being able to breathe. For what is living when it appears that our souls have departed our bodies and have left us listless and cold.

In 2005, Guyana raised its age of consent from 13 to 16.

– Poor me, I’ll never see… In the past two columns I wondered whether the People’s National Congress (PNC) leader David Arthur Ganger was “fully retired”.

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Increasingly irate about unruly residents who refused to obey lockdown measures, several short-tempered Italian mayors, last year March, finally went on the verbal offensive as the pandemic crippled the country.