“Stay Home! Stay Home!” What Home? Look friends, very recently I’ve been telling myself – not always convincingly- that the People’s National Congress (PNC) and GECOM’s Secretariat under former Officer Lowenfield, have won!
By Erik Berglöf, Gordon Brown, and Jeremy Farrar Erik Berglöf, a former chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is Professor and Director of the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
It must be obvious to the vast majority of the Guyanese that if the coalition government had won the 2020 elections, the festivities would have been substantial, long over, the PPP/C left to lick its wounds, and given the weakness of the health system, the national focus, would have been – as it should be – exclusively on the coronavirus crisis.
By Deodat Maharaj Caribbean countries are amongst the most vulnerable on the planet being particularly susceptible to shocks including economic and those associated with natural disasters.
Speaking recently in in New York, the state Governor, Andrew Cuomo said: “The stress, the emotion, is just incredible, and rightfully so.
By Alissa Trotz Editor of the In the Diaspora column The Covid-19 pandemic finds Guyanese at home and abroad plagued by worry about how our public health system, found sorely wanting at the best of times, but straining at the sinews in the context of the present political crisis since the March 2 election, will cope.
The United States Government is entirely non-partisan about which party wins Guyana’s 2020 elections.
This week the voices calling for a lockdown in Guyana because of COVID-19 multiplied.
-The Virus, The Holy Father, The church The old PNC – (People’s National Congress) – friend accosted me.
Guyana has recorded its fourth coronavirus related death; nineteen confirmed cases and is projected to see fourteen hundred cases.
The energetic co-founder of the Reliance Healthcare Group, Jermaine Ifill described himself in his LinkedIn profile as “ambitious and open-minded, honest and kind,” someone who loved travelling and working.
Basdeo Panday, former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, came to the funeral of Cheddi Jagan in 1997, and I was delegated to chaperone him.
Just a few weeks ago it was possible for Trinidad’s Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley, to indicate in a major speech, that the Caribbean as whole had a potentially very bright future as a major western hemisphere oil and gas supplier.
By Simon Johnson WASHINGTON, DC – We live now in the post-virus world.
You, Mr President, are a Churchman, you believe in God the Supreme, the Creator and Destroyer and those who would delude themselves that they would live forever, must realize that when that day comes, you can’t take a single thing with you – you come in this world with nothing and you leave with nothing and all that is left is what you have done for the people on earth.
By Lear Matthews Lear Matthews is professor, State University of New York, Empire State College.
Many are calling for a lockdown in Guyana due to COVID-19.
We are a people of long histories, short memories and limited visions.
– Concerning “Warrior-President” Volda Woe unto us in the middle these days.
On an usually quiet street in downtown Kingston, scores of ordinary Guyanese from all backgrounds, take turns each hot day and long night to closely watch over more than a dozen dingy shipping containers stacked high.
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