Daily Features

By  Simon Johnson, Galit Alter, Tess Cameron, and Michael Mina Simon Johnson is co-chair of the COVID-19 Policy Alliance and a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Since late April there have been virtually no tourist arrivals in the Caribbean.

Yet there is also cause for alarm [relating to the COVID-19 pandemic].

Editor’s Note: This week’s diaspora column is                              dedicated to the memory of Andaiye (1942-2019) and Norman Girvan (1941-2014) This statement is issued by a group of Caribbean advocates and activists who participated in an open access online course, Society: Economy and Ecology (SEE) in the Caribbean: How Will We Organise to Live? 

Since measures were implemented to flatten the coronavirus curve in Guyana, schools have been engaged in distance education.

The Iron Lady’s long count, plus… Could it be political immaturity, inspired by an ageing mind, which prevents me from ever accepting the PPP’s Mohamed Irfaan as President of our Guyana Republic?

“While we need organizing that is anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist, our organizing must also be anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, and against all forms of exploitation, subordination and discrimination.”

‘Even if pre-election and election day processes go well, a flawed vote count or vote tabulation can fatally undermine the integrity and credibility of the electoral process and decrease public confidence and public acceptance of the results’ (Carter Center Disappointed Not to Be Able to Return to Guyana.

Towards the end of her life, my elderly mother’s favourite musical refrain, was adapted from the classic calypso “Jumbie Jamberee,” and she would ruefully admit, “Nora gal, you done dead already.”

Scientists and pharmaceutical companies around the world are hopeful that before long they may find an effective vaccine against COVID-19.  

By Faizal Deen Faizal Deen was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He immigrated as a child to Ottawa, Canada in 1977.

The U.S. Treasury Department last Friday imposed sanctions against the head of the Nicaraguan army and the country’s finance minister because of the Ortega regime’s increasing tendency towards authoritarianism and more specifically its ‘continued violations of basic human rights, blatant corruption, and widespread violence against the Nicaraguan people’.

The novel coronavirus disease is a threat regardless of ethnicity, sexual orientation, social class, profession or religion.

-The PNC and the USA Guess what friends. I managed to attract robust criticism from anti-PNC folks for referring still to my mantra before last March 02.

By Mia Amor Mottley and Didier Trebucq Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are characterised by their exposure to a variety of risks and limited capacity to deal with them when they occur.

Throughout most of my life and growth as a young woman in Guyana, I was taught to abide by the laws and expectations of the heteronormative patriarchy.

Installment 2020-4 Q:  I am a US Citizen interested in returning to the US, will there be another flight?

A week ago, Guyana’s Department of Public Information (DPI) issued a flattering Government statement saluting incumbent President David Granger on the fifth anniversary of his swearing in and congratulating him on his second term in office.

By Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – The COVID-19 crisis has become the latest front in the escalating clash of ideologies that has become a central feature of geopolitics in recent years.

So long as our two large ethnic parties are able to manipulate elections to win over 50% of the votes, even the limited improvement in political accountability our kinds of societies can gain from developing into multiethnic societies, where governments arise out of ethnic group compromise, is lost.