Daily Features

In less than three months’ time, El Salvador intends becoming the first country in the world to make Bitcoin its official currency alongside the US Dollar.

By Anthony Bogues Anthony Bogues is a Professor of Humanities at Brown University.

On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic.

Disaster and crisis have always been common in Guyana. In our moments of calm, whether consciously or subconsciously, we are in a state of constant preparedness for the next chapter in our book of trials and errors.

Introduction This second part of a mini-series on the three oil companies which operate the Liza 1 project under the Stabroek Block reviews the 2020 financial statements of the Guyana branch of Hess Guyana Exploration Limited (Hess).

While we can often have debates surrounding nature vs. nurture and what takes precedence, it cannot be argued that the environment people grow in, has a large role to play in how they develop as individuals.

You realise that if two bandits rob and kill your grandmother in her bedroom one night, two feet in front of you, and you escape to inform the police, the two murderers charged become “suspects”.

Many people have written to us recently to ask about the worldwide immigrant visa backlog. 

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.