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I was astonished recently to be told by one of the representatives of the Caribbean on the Board of the World Bank (WB) that Antigua...

Guyana has won a second judgement

By Sir Ronald Sanders Guyana has won a second judgement in an ongoing case against Venezuela, at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague, “to confirm the legal validity and binding effect” of an 1899 arbitration that determined the boundary between Guyana and Venezuela as “a full, perfect…

Efforts by small states to seek justice for damage and existential threats to their countries, caused by the world’s major environmental polluters, moved a step further at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on March 29.

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Two articles by South African communist Paul Trewhela on the 27 maio 1977 massacre in Angola. Paul Trewhela was a member of the South African communist party in the mid-'60s, was imprisoned for three years, then worked with Baruch Hirson in exile.

Tripurdaman Singh won the award for his book ‘Sixteen Stormy Days’, and Arun Mohan Sukumar, for ‘Midnight’s Machines’. The cash prize was Rs 1,00,000 each.

“The world is facing a crisis of development.”  Those are the first words of a paper from officials of the World Bank Group (WBG), setting out a proposed roadmap for “urgent action” to tackle the “growing crisis of poverty and economic distress, and global challenges, including climate change, pandemic risks, and rising fragility and conflict”.  

Authoritative international bodies – among them, the respected Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) – have concluded that “democracy is under both literal and figurative assault around the world.”   The countries of the Caribbean have not been exempted from this judgement which is based on more than a decade of studies.

If developing countries, especially the small and vulnerable states, expected meaningful attention by the G20 to the myriad economic...