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DARK clouds have been hanging over Gaza and the West Bank for a year now. The only useful exercise the international community and media networks can perform, it appears, is to count the dead and report the grotesque statistics with precision, as if death and suffering on this scale can be measured in numbers. There

ON the 19 January, 2019, Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali was elected Presidential candidate of the PPP to contest against an increasingly unpopular David Granger administration. Dr Ali’s nomination was greeted by apprehension both inside and outside the PPP. Many felt that he was not ready, he was too rough around the edges and there were

AT the opening ceremony of the 2023 China International Import Expo (CIIE), Chinese Premier Li Qiang shared an inspiring story of Ali Faiz, a young merchant from Afghanistan, a country long plagued by war and in desperate need of development. Through CIIE, Ali brought to China handmade wool carpets from his hometown, each skilfully crafted

LAST week, President Irfaan Ali delivered two remarkable speeches at the United Nations General Assembly’s Sixth plenary meeting, 79th session in New York City. His speeches, interviews and engagements were eloquent elaborations of Guyana’s development trajectory which seeks to strike a balance between exploiting oil and gas resources, while adhering to a model of conservation

By Vanessa Cort SHIRLEY Singh is a woman with a warm disposition and decades-long experience of dealing with fabrics, selling clothing and making tasty snacks. We became friends when I went to live with two of my sons and their wives in Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara. In fact, Shirley reminded me that we met

For most young people, life is a blissful experience. Every single day is a fresh chance to see or learn something new. Yet, even as we travel through this seemingly joyful and invigorating era of our lives, many of us happen to lose ourselves to stress and boredom. We stop enjoying life before it really

AT the opening ceremony of the 2023 China International Import Expo (CIIE), Chinese Premier Li Qiang shared an inspiring story of Ali Faiz, a young merchant from Afghanistan, a country long plagued by war and in desperate need of development. Through CIIE, Ali brought to China handmade wool carpets from his hometown, each skillfully crafted

By Neil Kumar THE 2024 Republic Bank, Caribbean Premier League is now climaxing in Guyana. The defending champions, Guyana Amazon Warriors are certainly on a high. Playing in a match on Wednesday night at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence, the home team humiliated the Barbados Royals when they completely out-played them with the ball

“THE vast expanse of heaven and earth unfolds before me; the cows and sheep on the grassland are grazing in the breeze.” Such is the pastoral pleasure celebrated in folk songs about 100 years ago of life in Inner Mongolia, a northern border region in China with an expansive landmass close to the size of