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Migrants have historically played a very important role to the societies in which they settle.

Where once The Saviour walked – turmoil! Okay friends, I’ve fully succumbed to the political season of Electoral Politics and the drama and vagaries of Party Campaigns.

In a letter last Saturday, Dr. Vishnu Bisram argued more or less successfully for the formation of alliances by small political parties and for the Guyana Elections Commission to give them as much space as possible to achieve this goal (SN:18/01/2020).

Politicians love to promise a better and brighter future. They tend to say little about the day to day experience their citizens have of the services they provide.

By Reda Cherif, Fuad Hasanov, and Sabine Schlorke WASHINGTON, DC – For many firms in emerging and developing economies, emulating the success of the likes of Samsung and Hyundai may seem like an impossible dream.

By Percy C. Hintzen Percy Hintzen is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and Professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies and Director of African and African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University.

In last week’s article, we began to highlight the key events that took place in 2019 which presented significant challenges for democracy and the rule of law in Guyana.

Temporary rifts are instigated by factors like distrust stemming from history and prejudice; promises that have been unfulfilled and loyalty embedded in skin.

Nomination Day, One Rohee, Ten Returning Officers I had to succumb?

Today’s column returns to the issue of Local Content Policy (LCP) which appears either to have been drowned out by the excitement of First Oil or in which interest seems to have ebbed – a pattern since the Local Content was first raised in the aftermath of the disclosure of the signing of the 2016 Petroleum Agreement.

Currently, global food and water supplies are precariously perched on the brink of disaster. 

The U.S. Embassy’s Consular Section processes nonimmigrant visa applications on a year-round basis.

One of the most important elements of a properly functioning democratic state is regular personnel turnover, so when a political leader tells you, as Mr.

By Elizabeth Drew WASHINGTON, DC – The recent tense, dangerous exchanges between the United States and Iran have revealed a great deal about US President Donald Trump’s management of his foreign policy.

By R M Austin Basil Butcher, the Guyanese and West Indian cricketer, died at the age of eighty-six  on the 16th December, 2019.

For your Election Campaign consideration – the third edition of this Season’s goings-on as groups of individuals – sometimes described as “politicians” – compete robustly to be elected to govern and manage our national – and personal – affairs for five years.

Last year will certainly go down as one of the most challenging years for democracy and the rule of law in Guyana.

On Thursday the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo proposed a new approach to the political crisis that continues to grip Venezuela.

I have never obsessively compared myself to other women. Since my teenage years, I have never been interested in conforming to the accepted beauty standards.

-Changing Guyana? Concerning businessman Badal Hello there. Although I consider myself largely “retired” and “tired” my past significant brushes with “PNC politics” have left a residual urge to share comments from my armchair/recliner, relevant to you know what.