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The word “abyss” comes from the Greek for without depth or bottom, “a” and “byssos.”

Today the Caribbean Court of Justice will inform us whether or not it has jurisdiction to hear the appeal by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo and presidential candidate Dr.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Barrister-at-Law. Recipient of the Eminent International Jurist Award of the CCJ Academy; Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law.

Last month a bill was introduced into the US Senate by three Republican Senators.

We must ask – on what grounds and by what form of executive fiat does the Chief Elections Officer determine that he should invalidate 1 vote, far less over 115 000 votes when the votes were already certified as valid by officers of the Guyana Elections Commission in the presence of the political parties.

By Angelique V. Nixon Angelique V. Nixon is a Bahamas-born, Trinidad-based writer, artist, and scholar-activist.

There has been an upsurge in coronavirus cases in Guyana. As of the time of writing, there have been 250 confirmed cases, 117 recoveries and 14 deaths.

– Another long-lasting generational wedge? As one with a little hands-on knowledge – (not “expertise?”)

Across the US of A, Black Lives Matter protests are still being maintained against the violent policing systems that target Black people.

Mingo’s attempt to manipulate the election was a failed last minute improvisation by the PNC.

Guyana is in a most profound crisis. This crisis has been in the making for over 50 years – ever since the declaration of independence that came on the heels of the collapse of a multiracial anticolonial movement, the intervention of the joined imperialist forces of the UK and US and the convulsive coastal racial disturbances of the 1960s that delivered almost unshakeable constituencies of African and Indian Guyanese to the two major political parties in Guyana.

Later this year we will know whether President Trump has won a second term in office or if his fellow septuagenarian, Joe Biden, has ended the most disruptive US presidency in living memory.

The Commonwealth Charter recognises the inalienable right of individuals to participate in democratic processes, in particular through free and fair elections in shaping the society in which they live and for this right to be protected and respected.

Has Guyana reverted to the status of a colony? Within the last few months, it is not the first or second time I have asked this question.

-Victoria: – More fallout from the Floyd protests As like last Friday, again as this is being written earlier in this week, I am/we are not blessed with any conclusion to the March 02 elections.

By Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan (Previously UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (Ag.)

Ever since I was a young child, I enjoyed the news.

On Tuesday, the Chief Election Officer, (CEO), Keith Lowenfield proved he was even more mathematically and morally challenged than the now infamous Clairmont Mingo, when he arbitrarily invalidated without any explanation nearly a quarter of the total votes cast at the March 2, 2020 polls.

‘Constitutions are seldom made by the will of men. Time makes them.

Last week a culture war erupted in Britain over its colonial history.