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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”.

Before proceeding with today’s article, a brief comment on two governance issues is not inappropriate.

This research is being conducted by a team from the University of Leicester and University of Guyana, supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s Global Challenges Research Fund.

Revulsion, sorrow and shock. These were some of the reactions when a video circulated on social media this week of a man eating a decomposing animal.

Regardless of the day and year, an issue that remains alarmingly constant is the occurrence of sexual assault.

– Vintage Kaiso fuh so on yuh radio… Endure or enjoy today’s lecturette, ramblings, waffle.

When the Jet-Blue flight B6 1966 landed at the John F.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – It is humbling when a columnist must retract his words soon after penning them.

By Yanis Varoufakis ATHENS – Europe has discovered its moral Rubicon, the frontier beyond which commodification becomes intolerable.

Perhaps the most important aspect of the short statement issued in Washington after a first two-hour meeting last week between the new US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and his CARICOM counterparts was its emphasis on inclusivity.

This research is being conducted by a team from the University of Leicester and University of Guyana, supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s Global Challenges Research Fund.

The Suffering Hardships, distress and pain cling to us like skin on bones.

Long before the arrival of COVID-19, teachers within the public service have had to deal with disrespect for their profession.

Wanton deliberate murder, then manslaughter Hello Readers all, welcome to today’s miscellany; my potpourri of mostly practical “issues of national significance.”

Earlier this month, the talented Guyanese-born 27-year-old fashion designer and stylist, Anthony Singh was just hoping to find a puppy, asking his many social media friends for “Any help other than those lame Facebook adoption pages.”

By António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations In this pivotal year for humanity, now is the time for bold climate action.