Guyana Review

By Arthur Deakin The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently set out a narrow roadmap for the world to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

By Fareed Zakaria Perhaps the most original contribution of Fareed Zakaria’s new book “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World” is his “general theory” of COVID-19.

GENEVA, Switzerland — The International Trade Centre (ITC) led several discussions on small businesses’ needs arising from COVID-19, at the Aid-for-Trade Stocktaking Event held by the World Trade Organization (WTO) from 23 to 25 March.

WASHINGTON, USA – Economic crises like the one that Latin America and the Caribbean are suffering now, have long-lasting effects on the structure of employment and may permanently drive many from the formal economy, according to a new World Bank report.

In sport, as in any other field of endeavour, survival and growth are functions of performance.

It took a full five months after the Monday March 2 polling day for the eventual results of Guyana’s March 2 general elections to be declared in favour of the opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic, the intervening period having been punctuated by an unseemly controversy over the outcome of the poll characterised by equal measures of ludicrousness, legal resort, and the unprecedented high-profile intervention of sections of the  international community holding out for a declaration of a final result, after a CARICOM Observer Mission had overseen a recount of the votes and declared the incumbent David Granger-led coalition to have been voted out of office.

(A Devex Feature) By Barbara Stilwell, Kathryn Irwin As COVID-19 continues its global spread, the unique role nurses play in keeping the world healthy has come into sharper focus.

At the end of February as alarm bells began to sound on the growing spread of the COVID-19 virus, the World Bank established a multi-sectoral global task force to support country response and coping measures.

There can be no doubt that as is the case in every facet of life that is essential to our well-being as a society, the relatively sudden and barnstorming arrival of COVID-19 has caught us completely by surprise.

By Bert Hoffmann No region depends more on tourism than the Caribbean.

By Barrington Braithwaite The period beginning in the 1950’s was characterised by joblessness, and sub-standard living conditions.

By Mac Margolis This time last year Guyana’s future looked bright.

By Karen Abrams While many educators are debating the merits of virtual education versus in-classroom education, very few are taking a holistic approach to the changes that are necessary in the entire education system. 

Guyana has become the latest country to host an office of the Geneva-headquartered Global Compliance Service, and International ISO Certification Body & Registrar.

By Martien Van Nieuwkop Back in March the World Bank Group announced that it would make available a US$12 billion package, an unprecedented level of financing to help developing countries and businesses respond to the health and economic impacts caused by COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront some of the most pressing global challenges that humanity has faced in recent history.

By Jenny Gonzales Even as coastal communities in the hemisphere seek to sustain their pushback efforts against COVID-19, reports emanating from non-governmental organizations including the Socio-environmental Institute (ISA) and Greenpeace Brazil point to an aggressive ‘invasion’ of indigenous reserves and conservation units in the Amazon rainforest by well-financed miners, unmindful of either the impact of their gold recovery pursuits on the continued destruction of the rainforest or, more recently, that threat of the spread of the coronavirus among the indigenous Indians inhabiting the world’s largest expanse of rainforest.

By Ornetta Waldron Natalie is a micro-enterprise owner and a single parent of three school-age children.

Inspiration for the fifty-one poems comprising Alicia Daniels’ “Book of Poetry 1” may not be the only gift that she has gotten from her Christian faith but it has been a rewarding payback.

With almost two complete terms of missed school behind us, we find ourselves in a condition of bewildering uncertainty as to whether we will face a third term of near-complete absence of conventional classroom schooling.