Daily Features

By Neha Bansal NEW DELHI – This year marks the 30th anniversary of the United Nations’ International Year of the Family (IYF).

By Professor Jeffrey Sachs The latest campaign of the United States against China is the charge that China has excess capacity in a range of manufactured goods and so should restrain its exports. 

By Jorge G. Castañeda and Carlos Ominami MEXICO CITY – Violence lurks in nearly all of Latin America’s major cities.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan, Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana First Swiss Chair in International Human Rights Law, Geneva Graduate Institute In my offerings in these pages, I have endeavoured to draw attention to international policies and strategies that can contribute to the process of nation-building in a Guyana of diverse ethnicities.

In our article of 9 October 2023, we discussed the award of the contract for the construction of a sluice pump station at Belle Vue, West Bank Demerara, to Tepui Group Inc.

By Simon Taylor, co-Founder & Board member of Global Witness, and co-Founder of Publish What You Pay; Saswati Svetlana, National Coordinator, Mineral Inheritors Rights Association, India; Mike McCormack, Director, Policy Forum Guyana; Patrick Bond, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg; and Rahul Basu, Research Director, Goa Foundation, India.

This week during the third session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent in Geneva, Switzerland, is when journalist and media personality Wanita Huburn was attacked for sharing her opinion on Facebook about the government taking accountability for the incompetence of the Guyana Power and Light.

By Robert Redford and Xiye Bastida NEW YORK – There was a time, not so long ago, when the depletion of Earth’s ozone layer seemed like an insurmountable challenge.

In this edition of our Ask-the-Consul, we will answer some common questions about U.S.

By Daoud Kuttab JERUSALEM – It is hard to imagine that anyone in the Levant or the broader Middle East managed to sleep on Saturday night, as Iran launched hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles toward strategic sites in Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights And Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana Every country needs a national vision.

By Laurence Tubiana PARIS – After years of avoiding any explicit mention of the primary cause of climate change, negotiators at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai last year finally reached an agreement calling for a “transition away from fossil fuels.”

 In our last three columns, we discussed the contents of the audit report on Exxon’s post contract costs for 2018-2020.

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By Richard K. Sherwin NEW YORK – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,

Dead children cold in their mothers’ arms. Permanently injured children held by fathers trying to hide their tears.

By  Iván Duque Márquez BOGOTÁ – Guyana is on the cusp of a profound socioeconomic transformation unlike any seen in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Before proceeding with today’s article, we would like to offer some brief comments on a letter published in last Saturday’s issue of the Stabroek News.

By Anita Baksh Anita Baksh is Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York (CUNY).

People on the East Bank, West Bank and some parts of Georgetown have been complaining about smoke.