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The PPP/C Government attained political office in circumstances in which the rule of law was under severe stress.

A letter from prominent citizens in Stabroek News last Friday called for consultation on electoral reforms.

It took longer than expected for the challenge to the jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to materialise.

In Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian neighbourhood in Jerusalem, captured and since occupied by Israel in the Six Day War in 1967, Israel sought to evict six Palestinian families, who have been in occupation since 1948 or before.

Cheddi Jagan railed for decades in hundreds of articles and thousands of speeches at the unfair and exploitative extraction of wealth by the developed industrial countries from the poor South, with an unenviable command of facts and figures.

The decision of Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire (CJ) is a bold, compelling and erudite analysis of the law relating to the interpretation of what the public now knows as Section 22 and Order 60.

When nationalisations of private-owned enterprises took place in the 1970s, first bauxite, then sugar, followed by the banks and others, initiated by the PNC government and supported by the Opposition PPP, they were ideologically and politically driven.

The headline and the three paragraphs below are direct quotations from a report in the Stabroek News of April 14, 2021.

In 2010, I wrote an article on the overseas vote in which I argued that the Constitution of Guyana permitted all Guyanese citizens over the age of 18 to vote.

A tall and big African-American man, George Floyd graduated from high school and attended college on sports scholarships for several years before dropping out.

The Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Joe Harmon, has lamented the neglect by the Caricom Secretariat and its Chairman, Prime Minister Keith Rowley, of acknowledging his letters requesting their mediation of the current stalemate between the Government and Opposition.

Allan Price, now deceased, lived abroad but owned a portion of land in Queenstown which, by definition, is “immovable property.”

In 1918-1919 the flu pandemic, caused by the H1N1 virus, saw 500 million people, or one-third of the world’s population, become infected.

The spectacle displayed by the APNU+AFC in Parliament during last week signals the PNC’s return to the Opposition.

These words were uttered by one of our male Members of Parliament to a female Member when she was talking about cars being purchased by the Government for Ministers.

By Ralph Ramkarran Guyana holds a special place in China’s diplomatic history.

The public is hardly interested in the details of budgetary explanations and analysis and for many like myself, I find going through figures to be sheer drudgery.

As is to be expected, a complete reorientation of US-Guyana relations took place with the visit of then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in September last year.

Dictators have long thrived on the ignorance of the people. That is why the quality of a democracy can always be judged from the access to information that it allows.

Triggered by the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on December 18, 2020, upholding the Court’s jurisdiction to determine the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Award establishing and defining the border between Venezuela and British Guiana, Venezuela has predictably escalated its threat to Guyana’s sovereignty.