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By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan The occasional exchanges on ethnic relations in Guyana that one sometimes sees in the local media could benefit from the infusion of some basic principles.

Last year was a disaster for Caribbean tourism. Estimates suggest that visitor arrivals to the region fell by 75% in the last three quarters of 2020 causing overall Caribbean economic growth for the year to contract by 6.2%.

The Auditor General carried out a special audit of the fees paid by the Ministry of Legal Affairs for legal services during the period May 2015 to August 2020.

By Vidyaratha Kissoon (Vidyaratha Kissoon lives in Guyana. This is an edited version of a blog posted on https://churchroadman.blogspot.com/

2020 was a year of trials and tribulations. Chaos and fear spread throughout the world like a wildfire, torching the hopes of the Earth’s citizens.

How to `co-operate’ with riggers I’ll concede upfront that today’s offering might come off as a bit of a ramble not too coherently fashioned.

A group of visiting foreign journalists, we stood that cold morning to one side, struck into silence by the sheer size and splendour of the Capitol’s Rotunda, as we stared at the ornately decorated dome with its neo-classical motifs, in soaring symmetry above us.

(Part. 1) As global economies expand, the way in which we interact, communicate, travel and trade has significantly changed over the years.

On New Year’s Day 2021, Eusi Kwayana, commenting on what he appeared to have considered some rather outlandish exaggerations emanating from the government, recommended that equal time on the state media ‘should be offered as early as possible to the official representatives of the previous coalition government to respond as it sees fit, and is inclined to do to the indictment placed into the public arena by the Honourable Minister of Finance on December 29, 2020. 

By Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala LAGOS – The development and approval of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines less than a year after the start of the pandemic is a truly remarkable achievement, offering hope that the end of this devastating crisis may be in sight.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – The year 2020 was a harrowing one, with the COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide economic reversals, widespread climate-related disasters, pervasive social unrest, and even US President Donald Trump’s phony claims about massive electoral fraud and calls among his backers for martial law.

On 23 December 2020, the Auditor General’s report on the audit of the public accounts for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2019 was laid in the National Assembly.

By Aminta Kilawan-Narine, Esq. Aminta Kilawan-Narine is an attorney, community activist, and organizer. 

The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 0.15% during the fourth and final period of trading in December, 2020.

Serious prognostications, fun predictions The DNA – Deoxyribonucleic Acid is the genetic identification unique to organisms.

Today is the first day of the year. The idealistic amongst us usually see this shift in calendar dates as being a precursor for grand changes in their lives and that of others.

Across schools in the region, students have long been taught that millions of indigenous Taino people died out following the catastrophic arrival of the Spanish conquistadors, but recent revolutionary genetic studies are suddenly rewriting our history.

By Brajendra Navnit, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to WTO A proposal by India, South Africa and eight other countries calls on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to exempt member countries from enforcing some patents, and other Intellectual Property (IP) rights under the organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, known as TRIPS, for a limited period of time.

In a comment on last week’s Future Notes, Mr. Mike Persaud said, ‘we need a Constitutional Reform idea that would trend or move the people away from this over-racialized politics’, and then asked ‘Any ideas on this question, … Jeffrey?’

On 10 December 2020, the Auditor General presented to the Speaker of the National Assembly his report on the audit of the public accounts for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2019.