Daily Features

America’s Fifth Column

By Chris Patten LONDON – The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in the 1970s was a product of the Cold War standoff between the liberal democratic West and the communist Soviet bloc.

Eating from an empty bowl

In every nation, there are starving people. Whether the hunger is for sustenance, a fair share of the pie, knowledge or respect, that which sustains us is not equally distributed or guaranteed to all.

Expanding and developing the Guyana economy

By Dr Compton Bourne   Professor Emeritus of Economics, The University of the West Indies and former President, Caribbean Development Bank When oil and gas production fields in Guyana are fully operational, the fossil energy sector is likely to be the predominant source of national economic activity through its direct contribution to foreign exchange earnings, government fiscal revenues, employment and labour incomes, and local purchases of goods and services.

Constitutional reform: final lessons from America

Last week I argued that since the transfer of government to the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) after the March 2020 elections, both it and A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) have been promising constitutional and electoral reforms to prevent a repeat of the allegedly criminal events associated with attempts to manipulate those elections.

The $110M US-lobby bill

A record $100M was publicly spent by the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) and a rising New York-based group of diaspora allies, on lobbying critical American support in the lead up to the March 2, 2020 high-stakes elections and during the five-month democracy crisis that ensued.

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