“One People”? Desist! Over the twenty-eight years of the life of this working-man’s column it has been easy for me to be consistent with both my general and specific views regarding the Black/African man’s presence and contribution to mankind’s existence.
Taken into high orbit on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, the watching satellite captured in astounding detail, the historic rupture from Guyana’s rare earthquake of magnitude 5.6 on January 31 last.
Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham was born on 20th February 1923, helped to form the PPP in 1950, left the PPP in 1955 and formed the People’s National Congress (PNC) in 1958, became premier/prime minister in 1964, president in 1980 and died on 6th August 1985.
By Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – In the first foreign-policy speech of his presidency, Joe Biden had a simple message for the world: “America is back.”
A few days ago, the Nigerian-American economist, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was appointed to lead the 164 nation Geneva-based World Trade Organisation (WTO).
On Friday, 12 February 2021, the Minister responsible for Finance presented to the National Assembly the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the fiscal year 2021.
By Honor Ford-Smith Associate Professor, Cultural and Artistic Practices for Environmental and Social Justice Associate Director, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean York University, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change What do you want for your cities, your villages, your communities, this region that is our home, the home of our children’s futures?
There are many stories that can begin with ‘Once upon a time…’ Like those the oceans hold.
From the beginning of racism, colorism has existed; that is not an opinion, it is a fact.
Black history month, White history always Only you can decide if this PNC meeting did take place as is about to be described.
Introduction Budget Speech 2021 was presented by Dr. Ashni Singh, who recently returned to Guyana after a number of years in international employment following the 2015 elections.
Set out below are the principal announcements by the Minister on the economic performance in 2020 and the projections for 2021.
Economic Performance The Minister reported that Global output in 2020 is estimated to have contracted by 3.5 percent and in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, economic output is estimated to have contracted by 7.4 percent in 2020.
This first full-year budget of the PPP/C since resuming office, is themed “A Path to Recovery, Economic Dynamism and Resilience”.
Growth Real GDP is expected to grow by 20.9% while the non-oil GDP is projected to grow by 6.1%.
The current balance projects a surplus of $2,609 million, a reversal of $23,046 million over revised 2020.
Analysis of expenditure Introduction Based on the priorities of the Government as set out in its Policies and Targets, the Cabinet, which recommends the Estimates, seeks the approval of the National Assembly for the allocation of the funds.
In this section we summarise and comment on the 2021 Budget measures in the Budget speech.
In the introduction to this focus we referred to the right of a fair return defence of the petroleum agreement by President Ali, which marks a significant change by the Administration whose 2020 elections manifesto promoted renegotiation.
Earlier this year the General Manager reported that the country’s National Insurance Scheme ended 2019 with a deficit of $1.503 billion.
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