Daily Features

A democratic polity, in which the law rules supreme, is only possible where there is broad consensus around the conceptual, structural and main processes of the state.

By  J. Bradford DeLong BERKELEY – Global superpowers have always found it painful to acknowledge their relative decline and deal with fast-rising challengers.

The Trump administration should use its newly announced quasi-embargo on Venezuela as a bargaining chip to get much stronger international economic sanctions against that country’s dictatorship.

According to a recent United Nations report on climate change, human activity is causing a dramatic degradation of the Earth’s land, thereby making global warming worse.

By D. Alissa Trotz D. Alissa Trotz is editor of the  In the Diaspora Column A little over a week ago, Guyanese woke up to what can only be described as a racist and xenophobic attack on Haitians in the Guyana Times newspaper.

The xenophobic attacks on Haitian immigrants is an attack on humanity and an attack on the essence of what it means to share this space we call Earth.

Haiti, one of the only countries I know to have a perennial adjunct attached to it.

-Image versus reality… Greetings friends. I won’t completely avoid traffic fatalities, court decisions, murder, robbery, rape and local politics today.

Introduction It has been a week of headlines in the petroleum sector.

This year, I received an unusual birthday gift of a small, possible Pandora’s box that seemed simple and innocuous with bright rainbow-like stripes against crisp, white cardboard.

‘Due observance of constitutional democracy and the rule of law in Guyana rests, in large measure, with the conduct of the various branches of government, that is, the President and the Cabinet, the Parliament and the Judiciary.

By Landry Signé and Ameenah Gurib-Fakim WASHINGTON, DC/PORT LOUIS – At a time when the United States, once a standard bearer of multilateralism, is embracing protectionism, Africa has taken a bold step in the opposite direction, creating the world’s largest free-trade area since the establishment of the World Trade Organization in 1995.

A newly released International Monetary Fund forecast has bad news for Latin America: It will be the slowest growing region in the world this year.

Introduction Column 71 published last week included a summary table of the Statements of Financial Position (the Balance Sheet) of the three oil companies which will lead Guyana to First Oil projected to take place during the first quarter of 2020.

I am endeavouring to have a free, fair and transparent election … I believe in inclusivity and I will speak with everybody.

Years ago, on Emancipation Day, an elder called me in London from Cameroon and greeted me with song.

Despite excellent delaying strategies by His Excellency’s People’s National Congress (PNC) dominance, circumstances – dictated from without – have now propelled all interested into top-flight elections mode.

Introduction Column 71 published last week included a summary table of the Statements of Financial Position (the Balance Sheet) of the three oil companies which will lead Guyana to First Oil projected to take place during the first quarter of 2020.

Only 181 years ago, the ancestors of present day Afro-Guyanese were liberated from the shackles of slavery.

This week, the story broke of California Governor Ronald Reagan calling African delegates to the United Nations, “monkeys” in a 1971 slur that sparked chuckles from President Richard Nixon.