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.
Kimalee Phillip is a Grenadian feminist and labour human rights activist and organizer who is part of the Caribbean Solidarity Network.
The Christmas season is a time that is usually filled with great joy and celebration.
Happy Holidays to our Prime Ministers I know that Guyana’s late legend of local trade unionism Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow was fond of reminding folks that “Politics follows you from the cradle to the grave.”
It may very well be the oldest and tastiest surviving savoury sauce in this part of the world, but Guyana is the only country where the rich, dark, intensely flavoured indigenous concoction is so seamlessly integrated into our cuisine, consciousness, and Christmas culture.
Over the years, even after the 2000 revision of the Constitution that resulted from widespread consultation, many people have still been demanding root and branch reforms of what they call the ‘illegitimate 1980 Burnham Constitution’.
By Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – When the struggling street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, on December 17, 2010, he could not possibly have imagined how consequential his desperate protest would be.
Very soon, possibly by the time that this column is read, the European Union and Britain will have decided on the nature of their post Brexit relationship.
By Diana McCaulay Diana McCaulay is the founder, Director and former Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Environment Trust.
Our objective is not only not to have more exploitation of new oil and gas resources (but also] to make sure that a meaningful part of oil and gas already discov- ered stays below the surface. UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres World leaders recently held a virtual summit to mark the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change which aims at ‘[h]olding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels’.
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