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– The dumb-boy and the commissioner It happens, almost ‘naturally’, when a newly-elected government spends its first weeks in office.

The dry earth was still booming and vibrating in remote southern Guyana on a blazing Sunday afternoon, but across the Atlantic, it was just after 8 p.m.

President Irfaan Ali has in common with Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon the fact that he holds his present position as a result of an extremely non-transparent process with which substantial sections of his party apparatchiks were uncomfortable.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – US President Joe Biden has proposed a $1.9 trillion rescue plan to help the American economy recover from the pandemic.

A few days ago, China’s President, Xi Jinping, addressed the opening of this year’s Davos World Economic Forum.

COVID-19 is not just a health and economic crisis, but also a corruption crisis… Countries with high levels of corruption also relied less on democratic responses to the COVID-19 crisis, leading to democratic backsliding in many regions of the world. 

Part II By Rhoda Reddock Rhoda Reddock is emerita Professor of Gender, Social Change, and Development at the University of the West Indies, St.

When I read and listen to what has been said about the local sugar industry, my mind wanders to its dark origins.

As a resource rich country on the cusp of oil gains, the management and distribution of our nation’s promised wealth is often contentiously debated.

Alas! I’ll never see these other things here As a young student–teacher, in my bygone days, I was taught to employ “repetition–for–emphasis” when appropriate.

Dismayed by the brightness, the colony of dangling bats fled the starch mango tree which is still bearing a few plump fruits, out of season.

Given our highly politicized climate, this is only going to be seen as a tainted process.

NEW YORK – In celebrating the liberation from Donald Trump’s misrule, we must not forget that Trump’s presidency embodied the raw politics of US white supremacy.

In the dying days of the Trump Presidency the US State Department designated Cuba a ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism’.

By Rhoda Reddock Rhoda Reddock is emerita Professor of Gender, Social Change, and Development at the University of the West Indies, St.

Before proceeding with today’s article, we wish to clarify that the views expressed in last week’s article entitled “Global Witness’s withdrawal of its report on Guyana” are those of this columnist.

Since the darkness of COVID-19 cast its shadow over Guyana, many Guyanese have been left in a quandary.

Early Wednesday, as the sun shone through the open window, I received a short text from my American-born long-time friend writing from her chilly New York apartment, “Today is not a holiday.

A young child is groomed and sexually abused by an adult male.

Accepting a black-and-brown America Rajdai is not an actual person. But this narrative is based on what actually happened to an Indo-Guyanese young lady just like her.