Daily Features

“Guyana is not a real place” is a now cliché term that remains popular, especially on social media.

Coming very soon: GT’s Christmas chaos Hello readers. To be sure, this is another deliberate attempt today to do my escapist time-out from our daily doses of disease, traffic fatalities, crime and – yes – politics and electoral campaigning.

There are conversations that are required of us that we simply aren’t having.

Ever since the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) decided that it intended to remove over 25,000 persons who have not collected their national identification cards since 2008 from the list of electors, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has been up in arms, claiming that such an action would be illegal.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – At the end of the Cold War, political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a celebrated essay called “The End of History?”

By Simon Johnson WASHINGTON, DC – Since the end of World War II, the United States dollar has been at the heart of international finance and trade.

By Steven L. B. Jensen Steven L. B. Jensen is a Research Visitor at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in Oxford and the author of  The Making of International Human Rights.

Britain is to hold a general election on December 12. It is a decision that the country’s political class hopes will end once and for all the damaging debate and procedural manoeuvres about how, when or whether the UK will leave the European Union.

As powerful as we may be, whether we be rich or poor, and no matter our ethnicity, death is inevitable.

-an innocent beautiful bank robber? Slightly personally upset that I didn’t avoid the local politics today.

Three women: a 42-year-old businesswoman, a 23-year-old housewife and a 37-year-old mother.

Along Guyana’s beleaguered coastline, the high tides rush in from the rippling grayish-brown expanse of Atlantic Ocean, where the latest lucrative oil wells are being drilled deep below the seabed.

Every so often one needs to abandon the hackneyed discourses that surround everyday politics and contemplate lasting solutions to tectonic issues. 

By Emma Navarro OSLO – The Earth’s oceans face many threats, none of which have quick fixes.

Speaking last week in Pittsburg, President Trump all but confirmed that the US was withdrawing from the 2015 Paris climate change agreement.

By Kemahl Khan Editor’s Note: On Friday, September 13, QC alumnus, Kemahl “ARK” Khan, died while on vacation with his daughter and grand-children. 

This year a few new political parties were formed. The March 2020 elections are no doubt critical, but we have been there before.

In a report on March 13, 2019 last Dr. Jan Mangal, who has been on a crusade to get the contract with ExxonMobil’s subsidiary renegotiated is credited with having indicated that “… changing the royalty, from two to more, would see Exxon putting up a fight.

When it comes to the topic of hair, many are quick to label it as a frivolous thing.

-Last week’s significant quotes For citizens concerned. Do you find time to consider the status, character, integrity and/or abilities of those who assume positions of authority to direct and manage our national life?