Tag Archives: Foreign Affairs

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus In practical politics as in everyday life, theory is a bad word. You know the refrain – “that’s just theoretical” – meaning that there is little useful wisdom in what is being said or written. Academics in foreign affairs face quite an uphill task because of this bias against theoretical analysis. If fact, no ...

Junior Health Minister Dr. Karen Cummings was Thursday elevated to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, following Carl Greenidge’s resignation because he is a Guyanese-Briton and the Courts of have ruled that it is unconstitutional for dual citizenship holders to be parliamentarians. Cummings took the oath of office before President David Granger at the Ministry of the Presidency. “I ...