Guyana Review

Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria

Putting the pandemic in perspective

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.

Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, International Trade Centre
Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, International Trade Centre

Aid for Trade: A valuable lifeline for small businesses

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.

Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards swears in Dr Mohammed Irfaan Ali as the 9th Executive President of Guyana at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre on August 2, 2020

Guyana’s 2020 general elections: More theatre

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.

Celebrating  International Day of Nurses and Midwives

What do nurses need now?

(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.

The Waiapi tribe's way of life is under threat as the Amazon Rainforest burns and the government attempts to take over indigenous lands (CNN photo)

Gold Miners overrun Amazon indigenous lands as COVID-19 surges

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.

Game changes in our education system

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.

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