By Sarah Kihika Kasande KAMPALA – In late May, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act, a new law that institutionalizes the persecution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) people and, more broadly, promotes a culture of hate.
In oil rich Guyana, where Exxon’s subsidiary this week announced that it recorded $577.7 billion in profits in 2022 and where talks of progress and development are rife, there was low voter turnout at the Local Government Elections on Monday.
Part 1 Chinese Communist Party Chairman, Mao Zedong once stated that “Women hold up half the sky.”
Embassy of the United States of America 100 Duke & Young Streets, Kingston, Georgetown, Guyana To improve efficiency in the visa application process and to provide better services to visa applicants, the Consular Section of the United States Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana re-opened the Visa Document Service Center, known as the “DSC” on June 13, 2023.
By Nina L. Khrushcheva NEW YORK – Russia’s war against Ukraine has not gone as planned, to say the least.
In last week’s article, we highlighted the importance of insurance coverage and/or financial guarantee for environmental damage that may be caused by the petroleum operations of ExxonMobil’s subsidiaries – Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Ltd (EEPGL), Nexen and Hess.
By Bryan Khan Dr. Bryan Khan is a Caribbean Economist, working in the areas of Development Policy, Culture, and Intellectual Property Law Editor’s Note: Today, Monday June 12, from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m.,
Court orders and bulldozers have left Guyanese homeless. One man can own hundreds of acres of land while others squat.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs President John F. Kennedy was one of the world’s great peacemakers.
Pride month is always a time of duality. On one hand it is a period of immense pride.
By Professor Emeritus Compton Bourne, former President, Caribbean Development Bank Introduction My address to the Caribbean Develop-ment Bank Board of Governors in Georgetown in May 2005, postulated that major social and political problems in the Caribbean constituted the soft underbelly of economic progress in that the social progress achieved was insufficient in its distribution across households and districts to cap the wells of discontent which threaten the stability of future economic growth.
By Daniel Gros SOFIA/MILAN – Economists have long argued that regulation alone cannot bring about the reduction in global greenhouse-gas emissions that is needed to curb climate change; a carbon price is also essential.
By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – Last week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government inaugurated a new parliament building in New Delhi.
By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) is one of the organizations highlighted in a global study on The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs just issued by the publishing house Brill.
By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana (The author, a Barrister with a doctorate in law from the LSE, also has a BA (Hons).
Last week, the Brazilian Supreme Court sentenced former President Fernando Collor de Mello to eight years and 10 months in prison on corruption and money laundering charges.
By Havelock Brewster Note by Editor (Alissa Trotz): Professor Havelock Brewster passed away last week, at the age of 86.
By Macsood Hoosein What is the National Tree of Guyana? Answer: Not declared.
In my first year at university, our lecturer was discussing post-colonial societies.
By Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In the Diaspora column This week’s diaspora column is dedicated to the children lost to and injured by the fire at Mahdia.
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