Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 16:49 by Denis Chabrol By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus The global political economy has historically been dogged by North-South conflicts whereby the G-North states have used their structural economic power to shape and even determine the rules of the game. Global South leaders have consistently called for institutional reforms that would ensure ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 16:47 by Denis Chabrol Businesses in Guyana would now be able to access a maximum of GB£2.1 billion through UK Export Finance (UKEF), the United Kingdom’s credit agency, than those available from local commercial banks but none of the money can be used in the oil sector, the UK’s Minister for the Americas, ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 15:20 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Tuesday openly backed the now 22-day old strike by teachers, saying it has virtually crippled several businesses and warned that the industrial unrest could spread to the public service. “It is now obvious that this impasse will continue and as such we have chosen ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 14:11 by Denis Chabrol Guyana has pledged to provide additional financial support to the United Nations (UN)-led peacekeeping mission to Haiti, according to United States (US) Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield. “Guyana has committed to additional funding. I don’t know what the amount is but the President has committed to providing ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 17:35 by Denis Chabrol Canada is lending Guyana CAD$120 million to support social services delivery in a number of areas, with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) co-financing the amount with US$30 million, the Canadian High Commission said Tuesday. The High Commission says the loan will be utilised to improve social protection and public ...

Last Updated on Monday, 26 February 2024, 22:34 by Denis Chabrol Chairman of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali on Monday begged stakeholders in Haiti to work together to pave the way for long-lasting solutions to the political and security crises facing that country. “This requires all stakeholders in Haiti, especially, to give a bit, to compromise ...

Last Updated on Friday, 23 February 2024, 14:39 by Denis Chabrol A loader and a private security agent at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport were arrested Thursday in connection with several bags of cocaine that were allegedly delivered over the airport fence, according to the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU). CANU said the 71.2 kilogrammes of cocainne were seized at a ...

Last Updated on Friday, 23 February 2024, 13:08 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali Thursday night said election rigging as a means to political power would not be allowed to return to Guyana. “Guyana’s harrowing experience with dictatorship stands as a stark reminder of the perils of rigged elections. That era is a closed chapter in our history,” he said ...

Last Updated on Friday, 23 February 2024, 6:40 by Denis Chabrol By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus Back in the mid-1970s there were still some functional traffic lights in Georgetown. I distinctly recall the one at Main and Church Streets, just by the Bank of Guyana and the National Library. The one at Lamaha and Camp Streets also stand out. ...

Last Updated on Friday, 23 February 2024, 6:34 by Denis Chabrol By GHK Lall Mr. Hamilton Green had a flash of inspiration, or what he thought was, and let his frustration and desperation run amok.  Rigging would be right if only so that Guyana could be rid of its political torturers.  The latter is the current cast of characters that ...