Daily Features

by Sue Horton and Bjørn Lomborg  (- Sue Horton is Vice-President of Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada.

Walter Rodney and reversing the course of Guyana’s tragedy By Cary Fraser (Cary Fraser teaches race in American history and Caribbean history at the Pennsylvania State University.

Chanderpaul leaving mid-match to collect awards By Zoisa Fraser with photos by Jules Gibson Should Shivnarine Chanderpaul have been allowed to leave midway through Guyana’s Carib Beer Cup match against the Windward Islands to collect his awards in Trinidad?

China and India – Reshaping the world economy By Christopher Ram  Introduction To be honest, this article was prompted by China’s harsh treatment of the people of Tibet who would just like to live in peace, free from the heavy hand of Beijing and to practice their Buddhist lifestyle.

Jagan’s ‘rice’ government -Drainage and irrigation of the mind By A.

West Indies – Sri Lanka Test Cricket: A Historical Perspective (Part II) By Winston McGowanThis second instalment of this article will give a brief account of the first three of the ten Test matches between the West Indies and Sri Lanka before the commencement of the visitors’ current tour of the Caribbean.

– Mira Kamdar, the author of Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy, is currently a fellow at the Asia Society.

By Eswar Prasad (Eswar Prasad, former head of the China Division of the International Monetary Fund, is professor of trade policy at Cornell University.

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.

The Obama versus Clinton race Photographs and interviews by Zoisa Fraser and Sarah Bharrat What do you think about the Barack Obama/Hilary Clinton US presidential candidate race?

CARIFESTA and Guyanese culture – But V.A.T. and crime! I am aware that in our public service/governmental culture, it is not normal or conventional, but I might be breaking some rule today to pay a mild tribute to one long-serving public servant I know fairly well.

West Indies – Sri Lanka Test Cricket: A historical perspective (Part I) By Winston McGowan Caribbean cricket fans are currently focusing on the visit to the region by the Sri Lankans.

Cristopher Lane(This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.)

A New York-based Guyanese working as an adjudicator in an office of the US Citizen and Immigration Services has pleaded not guilty to promising to secure immigration papers for a Colombian woman in exchange for sexual favours, the New York Times (NYT) reported on Friday.

The govt’s crime response eight weeks after Lusignan Photos and interviews by Shabna Ullah This week we asked the man/woman in the street if they were happy with the government’s response to crime eight weeks after the Lusignan massacre.

Making On The Map By Annalee Davis Annalee Davis is a visual artist living and working in Barbados.

Did He die in vain? – faith, belief, acceptance By A.A.

by Pascal Boniface (Pascal Boniface is Director of the Institute for International and Strategic relations, Paris (IRIS).

Unsubful. Ungroupthink. Undoublespeak We were woken from a dream…the golden wheat fields of the Ukraine stretched out across the steppe; we bumped along the rutted road, the family’s belongings lurching in the rickety cart.