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A week ago, the government of The Bahamas took an unprecedented decision.

In democracy, leaders step aside when they are voted out of office.

Caught between binaries, barred by anti-Asian exclusion laws, did some West Indians of Indian origin claim Blackness in early 20th-century America?

The demonization of religious and spiritual practices has a long history.

Appreciating PNC mind-control successes Of course friends, I would expect no sympathy for my self-imposed dilemma.

The idea of reparations for the atrocities committed during the transatlantic slave trade is often a hotly contested idea.

More than 140 days after Guyana’s elections, the losing regime and its disingenuous leader remain defiantly in power, with yet another brazen legal attempt underway to thwart democracy and further delay the formal declaration of the winner. 

Stephen Kinzer of Brown University USA, who has chronicled a century of USA regime change and whose video has recently been doing the rounds on social media in Guyana, claimed that the lesson his research teaches is that Americans love democracy when it throws up leaders that do their bidding.

On July 4, the opposition Partido Revolucionario Moderno (PRM) swept to power in the Dominican Republic, handing Luis Abinader the Presidency and control of both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.

The Chair of the Elections Commission had written to the Chief Election Officer (CEO) requesting him to submit a report ‘using the valid votes counted in the National Recount as per Certificates of Recount generated therefrom’.

By Omar Shahabudin McDoom Dr. Omar Shahabudin McDoom teaches political science at the London School of Economics where he specializes in the study of violent conflict, ethnic politics, and sub-Saharan Africa.

A few occurrences this week exacerbated the chaos in Guyana. The world is experiencing transformation because of COVID-19 with the number of cases decreasing in some places while increasing in others.

Despite society’s reliance on the law and its punitive elements to direct behaviour, there are many gaps between our laws and what our culture continues to allow.

Unfortunate lessons in PNC character-abuse Some of you (“regulars”) will recognize, even appreciate, that it’s not easy for me to avoid local politics altogether these days.

Yesterday, incumbent President David Granger serenely celebrated his 75th birthday with special invitees including core party loyalists and key Government figures, before his smiling portrait in a huge banner that proclaimed “May God bless you with a life full of health, happiness and love.”

Emmanuel Kant, the eminent 18th century German moral philosopher, believed that there was only a single ‘categorical imperative’ in the moral realm: ‘Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.’

WASHINGTON, DC – After months of downplaying the severity of COVID-19, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has contracted it.

After years of failing to find a way to reconcile whether LIAT, the Antigua-based carrier, primarily serves the interests of shareholder governments by providing tax revenue and employment or is a genuine for-profit operation rather than a form of monopoly, a moment of truth has arrived.

By Omar Shahabudin McDoom Dr. Omar Shahabudin McDoom teaches political science at the London School of Economics where he specializes in the study of violent conflict, ethnic politics, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Now Guyana must return to its state of respect for the established will of the people; and the new Government must be declared and installed.