Daily Features

By Karina Gould OTTAWA – It has been a year since the coronavirus pandemic started dominating headlines and our lives.

Last month Britain published two significant post-Brexit policy documents setting out its future thinking on foreign policy, defence, security, and development.

By Dani Rodrik Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F.

In last week’s article, we began a discussion of the important topic of public financial management (PFM), drawing in part on the contents of the recently released Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report entitled “Economic Institutions for a Resilient Caribbean” as well as our own experience of the subject.

Twice now my messages to friends have been left unread because they succumbed to COVID-19.

It is no secret that Guyana has a drug problem. The increasing creativity and scope of its drug operations has found its way into local and international entertainment.

-Pandemic humour … I believe that it’s the United Nations Organisation – the UN – which determines how far out or how much of a sea or ocean belongs to some country that is contiguous to that mighty body of water.

I received a recent, surprising call from a close relative in Northern Europe, telling me that she is being offered the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, but was too afraid to take it.

In considering the 2020 US State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in Guyana I discerned three inclusions that in the present context are worthy of comment.

By Joseph S. Nye CAMBRIDGE – During Joe Biden’s long career in the US Senate, he established a record of supporting human rights as a goal of American foreign policy.

By Adair Turner LONDON – Climate-policy discussions often focus on who will pay the cost of achieving a zero-carbon economy, with a particular focus on industrial sectors such as steel and cement.

Last week, the print media reported on certain aspects of the recently released Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report as they relate to Guyana.

Me kite, you balluh? Perhaps unashamedly, most of the sentiments of my lead caption are repeats from almost exactly three years ago.

In the halls of power, anything goes. So frequent are accusations of physical and economic violence that both politicians and the public have adopted a blasé attitude towards it all.

For years, US authorities have been dealing with an unexpected influx of illegal Guyanese immigrants, the sad, unwilling and helpless victims of an organised industry that shows no sign of halting its secret, lucrative operations.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – America is two cultures in one nation.

During the recent fracas in the National Assembly, Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton is said to have taunted the opposition by asking them what they had done for Africans during their term of office.

By  Justin Vaïsse PARIS – Will negotiators from the Global South be barred from attending the United Nations climate summit (COP26) in Glasgow in November because they are not vaccinated against COVID-19?

There is an old saying that you wait ages for a London bus and then two (or even three) come along at once.

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