Daily Features

In August, the price of gold reached a record high of US$2,073 per ounce.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – Unlike tens of millions of people around the world who have contracted COVID-19 because of their poverty, bad luck, vulnerability as essential workers, or poor decisions by policymakers, US President Donald Trump’s infection is of his own making.

By Dr John Deep Ford Dr. John Deep Ford is former Caribbean Region Director of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and former Guyana Ambassador to FAO and WTO.

It is easy to criticize those who colour the streets, waving placards and chanting.

A powerful hunter constantly on the prowl for prey of opportunity, the silvery sabre-toothed species is famous for its distinctive lengthy fangs protruding from the lower jaw.

Housing inaccessibility plagues a significant portion of our small population. Despite remaining a fundamental right of every citizen, generations of families find themselves trapped in a vicious cycle of homelessness.

“We waan Justiss!” – What is justice? As the Emergency 2020 Budget debate was being concluded, the revitalized PPP General Secretary – Vice President- Member of Parliament, Comrade Bharrat Jagdeo lamented: “Mr Speaker there are no honest interlocutors on the other side…” I was and am persuaded that he was, by and large, accurate in assessment and conclusion.

Faced with the threat of a no-confidence motion (NCM) in 2014, the minority PPP/C government invoked the archaic monarchical law of prorogation and dismissed parliament.

By Chris Patten LONDON – When I was governor of Hong Kong, one of my noisiest critics was Sir Percy Cradock, a former British ambassador to China.

Speaking recently at Bocas Lit Fest, Jamaica’s former Prime Minister, P J Patterson, observed that in recent years there had been a “deliberate attempt” to split the Caribbean.

In last week’s article, we sought to explain the Government’s budgetary process for the benefit of those who are not familiar with it.

By Ryan Cecil Jobson and Matthew Quest Ryan Cecil Jobson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

For weeks residents of ‘A’ Field Sophia have been without water.

Plagued by prolonged delays, missed deadlines, shoddy work and pricey revisions, Guyana’s Chinese-funded and contracted international airport expansion project is proving another expensive embarrassment, long dogged by controversy from its shady start.

When it was recognized that COVID-19 was not going anywhere for now, one of the first things I thought about was how it would impact our unnecessarily overpopulated prison system.

– Some positives from the Pandemic This working-class, man-in-the street column has survived virtually twenty-seven (27) years.

Over the last few weeks the major political parties have been speaking again of the need for constitutional reform, and generally the pace of change is so rapid that the only way to keep abreast is to consistently collaborate and change.

Despite the understandable desire by some in tourism to talk up a ‘return to normal’, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the industry’s recovery from the pandemic will be slow and uncertain, largely because infection rates in the region’s principal overseas markets continue to rise.

More than 100 wildfires continue to rage in the states of California, Oregon and Portland, causing deaths to at least 35 people, massive destruction to property and displacement of thousands of residents.

By Stephen Kinzer Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents.