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The Embassy has remained open to provide emergency and mission-critical visa services throughout the pandemic.

‘(The) dominant political elements in Guyana and the resulting reality (is) that governments tend to prefer to have in place not neutral or neutered public servants but those who are among their enthusiastic and active supporters.

Tomorrow, Joe Biden will become the forty-sixth President of the United States.

Last February, Global Witness issued a report entitled “SIGNED AWAY: How Exxon’s exploitative deal deprived Guyana of up to US$55 billion”.

By Anthony Bogues Anthony Bogues is the Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Professor of Africana Studies, and Director of the Center of the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University This is an edited version of an article that appeared in the South African based Mail and Guardian Thought Leader, January 13, 2021 January 6, 2021 was a historic day in American politics.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has brought a charge against a dental surgeon.

Please save our, Brigadier’s Park! and these Gorillas! Hello friends – both “regulars” and newcomers to this man-in-the–street column – come share, with me, my brief lamentations, concerns and a few expectations as 2021 gains its two-week momentum.

Being one of the largest industries in the world and a significant driver of unfettered development across the Caribbean, there is a lot being banked upon the reinvigoration of the tourism industry in the age of COVID-19.

On January 6, 2021 the California Congresswoman, Jackie Speier thought back to a traumatic November day, as she and her colleagues in the United States (U.S.)

By Mary Robinson DUBLIN – COVID-19 turned the world upside down in 2020.

Whether an election has been fraudulent or not cannot be determined by means of persistent bluster, propaganda and definitely not insurrection.

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.