Daily Features

In the Diaspora By Wendy C. Grenade Wendy Grenade is a Grenadian who lectures in Political Science, Department of Government, Sociology & Social Work, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.

In the 1960s the Caribbean’s diaspora had a distinctive identity.  It predominantly comprised migrants who had grown up or been born in the region, understood it well and maintained a close relationship with family and friends at home.

Business Page By Christopher Ram Introduction After two years before a Special Select Committee, new anti-money laundering legislation was passed by the National Assembly on April 30, 2009 and assented to by the President on August 14, 2009, a gap of close to one hundred days.

Four concerns In last week’s consideration of the pros and cons of conditional cash transfers as a policy tool for fighting the increased poverty and economic distress occasioned by the global economic crisis I referred to the results of impact evaluations of these schemes, mainly in Africa and Latin America.

And I also know the most important thing is that the questions must never stop. 

Robert B. Zoellick is the 11th President of the World Bank Group, which works with 185 member countries.

By Kenneth Rogoff – Kenneth Rogoff is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and was formerly chief economist at the IMF.

Sweet songs, sour calypso (?) Frankly Speaking Yes, I’m taking one of those necessary days off from consideration of our four major, national front-page miseries – murders, narcotics-crimes, traffic accidents and fires.

– Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch is the director of the Global Drug Policy Program at the Open Society Institute.

Structural adjustment and political reform in GuyanaBy Dr Mellissa Ifill Desmond Hoyte’s accession to the president’s office after the death of Forbes Burnham in August 1985, gave rise to fundamental changes in the political and economic direction of the state by the early 1990s.

– Chris Patten is a former EU Commissioner for External Relations, Chairman of the British Conservative Party, and was the last British Governor of Hong Kong.

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany could face an extended period of policy gridlock and a greater risk of political instability if Chancellor Angela Merkel is forced into another coalition with her leftist rivals after an election this month.

Development Watch Introductory remarks It took sixteen years for the Guyana government to propose a unified development policy framework – LCDS – which the public could view and scrutinise as a way forward. 

– Harold James is Professor of history and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Professor of history at the European University Institute, Florence.

Economic Corner Introduction: Yesterday the Takutu Bridge was finally officially opened.

– Daoud Kuttab, a former professor at Princeton University, is General Manager of the Community Media Network.

Interviews and photos by Cathy Richards This week we asked small business people in Linden about the problems they have had accessing loans to start up or expand their businesses through the Linden Economic Advancement Fund (LEAF).

In The Diaspora (This is one of a series of weekly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean) By Patsy Lewis Patsy Lewis is Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social & Economic Studies (SALISES) at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica.

So It GoesMany years ago, when I first went to live in the Cayman Islands, a journalist from the British Sunday Times, by the name of Simon Winchester, came to Cayman and wrote a one-dimensional hatchet job on the whole country, ridiculing the government, the tax haven status, even the shopkeepers, without ever mentioning one positive thing about the country. 

Guyana and the wider world Within the international economic community there is a growing consensus that the worst is over.