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By Karyn Diaz and Angelique V. Nixon Karyn Diaz is a Trinidadian scholar, writer, educator, and activist.

Last week, it was reported that the UK Government, through the Department for International Development, is providing Jamaica’s Integrity Commission with approximately £550,000 for institutional strengthening in the following key areas: (i) development of an electronic system for filing of declarations with the Commission; (ii) drafting of Regulations to support the Integrity Commission Act; (iii) crafting of a corruption risk assessment; and (iv) development of a national anti-corruption strategy.

The hate I see for Haitians transcends xenophobia. The kin of Toussaint Louverture appear to be seen as a threat.

In this record year of a raging and deadly viral pandemic, the Belgian authorities were on secret alert, awaiting for weeks, the Guyana scrap metal shipments that came in five separate containers aboard a loaded transoceanic vessel.

Migration is usually framed as a complex problem requiring complex solutions.

Positive “C’s”, Negative C’s I’ve decided that the issue indicated in my lead caption deserves some repetition.

‘Dual citizenship is attractive for many reasons, but there are times when it simply should not be tolerated. 

This was the year when much of the Caribbean went to the polls.

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.

Guyana’s laws on petroleum exploration and production date back to the 1980s.

By Grace Aneiza Ali Guyanese-born Grace Aneiza Ali is a Curator and an Assistant Professor and Provost Fellow in the Department of Art & Public Policy at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

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.

– Even co-operation against COVID impossible?   Whilst at my own book-signing event at Austin’s Book Service two Fridays ago I came across a few village histories in the store.

A lot of holidays during my younger years were spent in mining communities.

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.

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.

In the last few days, Pfizer BioNTech a German-US company, and the US company Moderna have separately announced that that the COVID-19 vaccines they have been developing have proved ninety-five per cent effective.

By Paola Subacchi   LONDON – A global collapse in economic activity during the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly increased the risk of debt distress in many countries, pushing the poorest ones to the brink.

In our last two articles, we discussed the operations of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Ltd.

By Nadège Compaoré Nadège Compaoré is an incoming Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Toronto.