The sinking of the MV Barima remains one of the most heartbreaking tragedies in Guyana’s history. Beyond the statistics of lives lost in the disaster, there is the enduring pain of those families whose loved ones have not yet been recovered, some of whom may still remain inside the sunken vessel. Considerations of the financial cost or […]

Andy Burnham is due to take over as Prime Minister of Great Britain during next week from the hapless Keir Starmer, who rode to 10 Downing Street on the radical agenda of Jeremy Corbin’s Labour Party, then promptly ditched it, having first helped to raid Corbin out of the leadership. In the 2024 general elections, […]

From the Conversation Tree The disclosure by Leader of the Opposition, Azruddin Mohamed, of a farm located in the Linden-Soesdyke area and owned by President Irfaan Ali, has been the subject of much comment. The size of the farm, the infrastructure, the wide variety of agricultural activities and modern practices would suggest that it is […]

The US’s intimidatory deployment of military resources in the Caribbean Sea, allegedly to disrupt the flow of drugs from Venezuela to the US, was expanded from the eight warships, carrying surface to air and surface to surface missiles, a nuclear submarine and F-35 aircraft, by the addition of the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the Gerald Ford. Apart from an arsenal of […]