Daily Features

By Chris Patten LONDON – The late Labour Party leader Harold Wilson, who served as the United Kingdom’s prime minister during much of the 1960s and 1970s, famously remarked that “a week is a long time in politics.”

By Prof. Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Former Fellow of Harvard and the LSE.

By Peter Singer MELBOURNE – Late last year, Australia’s parliament, reacting to concerns about the effect of social media on children’s mental health, amended the Online Safety Act to require users to be at least 16 years old to open an account on social-media platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and X.

By Neville Trotz Now retired, Ulric (Neville) Trotz was formerly the Deputy Director & Science Adviser, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belmopan, Belize.

In last week’s article, we began to highlight the significant issues that were covered in our Accountability Watch column in 2024.

Introduction In commemoration of the artist Stanley Greaves’ 90 birthday, the Sunday Stabroek will be featuring images of some of his artwork accompanied by poems written by him.

By Joseph S. Nye CAMBRIDGE – One question that 2025 may begin to answer is whether the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) is becoming the new center of power in world politics.

Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Column 151 As the first column for the new year, we wish all Guyanese and especially readers of this column a successful, healthy and productive 2025.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – Perhaps it should not be surprising that India should feature so prominently in the “civil war” that has emerged within US President-elect Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement.

By Prof. Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana; Former Fellow of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government My good friend, the late Lloyd Searwar, was one of Guyana’s foremost strategic thinkers.

By Ruti Teitel NEW YORK – US President-elect Donald Trump clearly does not intend to pursue a “good neighbor” policy.

Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded (Part 150) “African states must unite (for the continent) or sell themselves out to imperialist and colonialist exploiters for a mess of pottage…”: Kwame Nkrumah.

By Richard Haass NEW YORK – James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, the 39th president of the United States, was arguably the country’s greatest ex-president.

By Red Thread Red Thread’s members are primarily grassroots women, who live daily with various forms of economic and social insecurity.

This is our first attempt to provide readers with a summary of the main issues discussed in our weekly Accountability Watch column during the course of the year. 

By Gordon Brown EDINBURGH – Convinced that their interpretation of Islam is the only legitimate one, Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders continue to issue decrees that strip the country’s women and girls of their rights and freedoms.

BELFAST – During the US presidential campaign, Donald Trump pledged to make de-dollarization – efforts to reduce global reliance on the greenback – too costly to contemplate, vowing to impose 100% tariffs on countries that shun the currency.

Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Column 149 Introduction Having established in the previous parts the considerable assistance that Guyana can draw from the Churchill Falls case in pursuing renegotiation of the 2016 Agreement, this part examines the specific mechanisms available under the 2016 Agreement that allow Guyana to achieve that end.

By Chelsea Hodgkins WASHINGTON, DC – In July, the Serbian government reinstated the permits for Rio Tinto’s lithium mining project, after canceling them in 2022 following public protests.

By William Ruto NAIROBI – The recent, record-breaking $100 billion replenishment of the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) is a significant milestone.