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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.

In a letter to SN of January 13 Dr. Kwesi Sansculotte-Greenidge pointed out the necessity and possibility of a political solution to Guyana’s ethno-political problems through constitutional restructuring.

It is difficult to avoid the shocking events of Wednesday last in the United States of America.

By this time, the year of the half person would have passed.

The International Court of Justice (World Court) ruled on Friday last that it has jurisdiction to entertain Guyana’s application with regard to the dispute concerning “the legal validity and binding effect of the award regarding the boundary between the colony of British Guiana and the United States of Venezuela, of 3 October 1899.”

The letter published by Mr. Raphael Trotman in yesterday’s newspapers is worth reading.

Yesterday’s online edition of SN contained four separate articles about oil, the most important of which were reports of speeches by the Canadian High Commissioner and the United States Ambassador.

The PPP/C conceded and promptly departed from office in 2015 without a recount of votes in some challenged areas.

The UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, was accused of violating the Ministerial Code of Conduct by bullying staff.

Earlier this month, it was recommended by Mr. Nigel Hughes, the lawyer representing Joel Henry, Isaiah Henry and Haresh Singh, three teenagers who were brutally murdered and two of whose bodies were found on 6 September at No.

Over the past weeks in the US, liberals and progressives, and some conservatives, expectantly awaited the results of the elections for the complete demolition of Trump and Trumpism by the American electorate.

After the declaration of the election results on August 2, Ms.

Last Thursday, two elections petitions, which were filed after the elections results were declared on August 2, were heard before the Chief Justice.

Flooding the land on which squatters have unlawfully occupied, conjures up some of history’s most oppressive episodes.

Political lifespan in the third world, unlike the developed world, accords generally with a person’s physical lifespan, if no intervening political, health or other event intervenes to terminate the political career.

At the 151st birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on Friday last, President Irfaan Ali said: “The Republic of Guyana has just emerged from a bruising test of its democracy.