Daily Features

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.

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.