Daily Features

By Pepe Zhang and Otaviano Canuto WASHINGTON, DC – The world economy remains beset by challenges, from tight monetary, financial, and fiscal conditions to the effects of the war in Ukraine.

Last Monday, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) issued a media release in which it stated that it has offered no objection to the IHS Markit report that identified US$214.4 million in pre-contract recoverable costs that the Government has reasonable grounds for disputing.

By Shereen Lafhaj Shereen Lafhaj is a Curator currently working at the Museum of London in the UK.

Guyana is hot, but cold to the touch. Under the sweltering heat dreams are dying and bodies are in rigor mortis.

By Azali Assoumani, Emmanuel Macron, and Bola Tinubu PARIS – At the end of June, a historic summit on international solidarity concluded the Paris Agenda for People and the Planet.

Reparatory justice has been a long and persistent conversation that has been championed by community activists, scholars and national leaders.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana  Former UN Under-Secretary-General   September brings the annual session of the UN General Assembly and Governments will once again raise their concerns over issues of peace, development, and respect for human rights.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – In 2014, after the Mars Orbiter Mission, known as Mangalyaan, made India the first Asian country to reach Mars orbit, and the first country ever to do so in its maiden attempt, The New York Times published a cartoon.

By Mureen Aguilar, Medino Felician Abraham and Joel Thompson Mureen Aguilar is the head teacher of Maruranau nursery, a pilot school for the Quality Bilingual Education programme (QBEP).

Last Wednesday, the military seized power in the Central African state of Gabon and placed the President Ali Bongo under house arrest.

Some believe that Guyana’s brain drain for the past few decades has contributed to the underdevelopment of the country and the rise of the corrupt.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs China’s economy is slowing down.  Current forecasts put China’s GDP growth in 2023 at less than 5%, far below the high growth rates that China enjoyed until the late 2010s. 

By Chris Patten TOULOUSE – The days between Christmas and the New Year often prompt many of us to reflect on the problems facing the world and to consider what we can do to improve our own lives.

By Commonwealth Secretary-General, The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC  I am extremely fortunate.

By Lili Fuhr BERLIN – As the world grapples with an unprecedented confluence of devastating floods, wildfires, and droughts, the debate about how to address the escalating climate crisis is increasingly distorted by big-business interests peddling false remedies and promoting deceptive narratives.

Last Monday, voters in Ecuador approved of two referendums to ban oil drilling in the Yasuni nature reserve in the Amazon Basin, and mining in the Choco Andino forest outside Quito, the capital.

By Patrick Robinson Patrick Robinson has been a Jamaican member of the International Court of Justice since 2015.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – A revanchist agenda, driven by the desire to rectify perceived historical wrongs, lies at the heart of Russia’s foreign policy and provides the rationale for its war in Ukraine.

By William R. Rhodes and John Lipsky WASHINGTON, DC – Three upcoming international gatherings – the G20 Leaders’ Summit in September, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings in October, and the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in the United Arab Emirates in November – will focus on devising strategies to sustain global growth and tame inflation.

By Hippolyte Fofack CAIRO – Nearly 22 years after Jim O’Neill, then an economist at Goldman Sachs, coined the BRIC acronym to capture the economic potential of Brazil, Russia, India, and China, the group – called the BRICS since the addition of South Africa – contributes more to global GDP (in purchasing-power-parity terms) than the G7.