Daily Features

There are many political ideologies which governments around the world tend to hold themselves to.

Once crooks, now paragons of virtue I’m hoping that many readers, besides my weekly “regulars”, will tarry long enough today to accompany me through these few paragraphs of national historical nostalgia.

By Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – In less than four years, outgoing US President Donald Trump has achieved what, historically, only devastating wars had done: recast the global order.

Since the elections debacle largely between the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) and A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) government came somewhat to an end with the transfer of authority to the former, the new regime has not stopped promising constitutional and electoral changes to prevent what it deems a blatant effort by APNU+AFC to steal the election.

By  Laurence Tubiana PARIS – In the space of just a week during this year’s United Nations General Assembly, representatives of the world’s largest single market and the world’s second-largest economy each laid their climate cards on the table.

It is easy to share the excitement felt across the Caribbean at President elect Joe Biden’s victory in the US polls.

In last week’s article, we began a discussion on the operations of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Ltd (NICIL) in the light of the controversy over its involvement in the leasing and disposal of State lands under questionable circumstances.

By Anthony Bogues Anthony Bogues is a Professor of Humanities at Brown University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg.

When we talk about children being the most unprotected group in Guyana, we can add the name Sanesha Lall.

Just weeks before the abrupt conclusion of Guyana’s prolonged election crisis, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) quietly ended its contract with the American lobbying firm, Mercury Public Affairs having spent over $63M against its main rival’s $10M.

COVID, the laptops and the cable President Donald James Trump has certainly succeeded in making the American elections of November 03 “far from over.”

As a country with expansive jungles and riverain areas, Guyana’s wildlife is often heavily sold to tourists and locals alike.

  By Percy Hintzen   Percy Hintzen is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and Professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies and Director of African and African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University.  

By Section 108 of the Representation of the People Act, the election agent of each party/group of candidates must forward to the Chief Election Officer a declaration of their party’s expenses by 35 days following the declaration of the result of the national/regional elections.

From Bridgetown’s Carlisle Bay to England’s south west coastal town of Weymouth, cruise ships berthed offshore and out of service have become a familiar sight.

By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE – As Joe Biden eked out a victory in the US presidential election after a few suspenseful days, observers of American democracy were left scratching their heads.

It is time for better angels to prevail. Tonight, the whole world is watching America.

There seems to be no foreseeable end to COVID-19. Nations such as the UK have recently again imposed lockdowns after relaxing some of the COVID measures for some months.

Many of us who utilize email and social media are familiar with the annoyances of chain letters.

– That darn COVID conquers my comics! Just couldn’t be completely lighthearted as planned again when I realized that today’s offering is on the cusp of the culmination of one hundred (100) days of the still -“new” PPP 2020 administration.