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National security is the raison d’être of the state, i.e. the reason for its existence.

By Ricardo Hausmann and José Ramon Morales-Arilla CAMBRIDGE – Imagine you are driving down a road and arrive at a junction.

A little over a year ago this column observed that the pandemic will pass, but noted that more telling will be the way in which the region responds to the impact of a virus-induced recession.

Numerous individuals have raised their voices in condemnation of what has transpired in the National Assembly during the debate on the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for 2021.

By Isaac Saney Isaac Saney is a Cuba specialist at Dalhousie University, Canada and Co-Chair & Spokesperson, Canadian Network On Cuba Cuba continues to receive international accolades for its singular role in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

The garbage bin has been sitting near the gate for a week, waiting to be cleared.

Whenever cases of sexual and physical abuse hit the media, which is often, I try to stay away from public discussions of it.

-After one year, Penny believes her PNC Look, I promise (myself) to leave this sensitive national issue, of thievery by executives in public offices, to others for a long while.

The next victim does not yet know. But she will become just another anonymous casualty in an ongoing war.

In the previous column I explained that these articles on Forbes Burnham are from a talk I gave to a PNCR confab on his contemporary relevance and are grounded in my wish to find a political narrative, devoid of excessive bias that could contribute to Guyana’s elusive struggle for national unity.

By  José Antonio Ocampo, Joseph E. Stiglitz, and Jayati Ghosh              Dear Mr.

From Russia to Singapore, nations around the world are considering providing citizens who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 with digital immunity certificates for domestic and international use.

Corruption devastates the lives of billions of people around the world, while its deadliness has become all the more evident during the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis.

By M. NOURBESE PHILIP Born in Tobago, M. NOURBESE PHILIP is an unembedded poet, essayist, novelist, playwright and independent scholar who lives in the space-time of the City of Toronto where she practised law for seven years before becoming a poet and writer.

I do not expect there to be only saints and no sinners in the National Assembly.

“One People”? Desist! Over the twenty-eight years of the life of this working-man’s column it has been easy for me to be consistent with both my general and specific views regarding the Black/African man’s presence and contribution to mankind’s existence.

Taken into high orbit on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, the watching satellite captured in astounding detail, the historic rupture from Guyana’s rare earthquake of magnitude 5.6 on January 31 last.

Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham was born on 20th February 1923, helped to form the PPP in 1950, left the PPP in 1955 and formed the People’s National Congress (PNC) in 1958, became premier/prime minister in 1964, president in 1980 and died on 6th August 1985.

By Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – In the first foreign-policy speech of his presidency, Joe Biden had a simple message for the world: “America is back.”

A few days ago, the Nigerian-American economist, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was appointed to lead the 164 nation Geneva-based World Trade Organisation (WTO).