Columns

The announced closure of Stabroek News, which I learn about from a phone call while in Bangalore, comes as a shock to newspaper people like me and other information gathering...

President Trump finished a year into his second term last January 20. Despite several legal cases against him and uttering controversial remarks against minorities, Trump won large percentages of immigrant...

Dear Editor, The Guyana Stabroek News in an editorial, ‘Fragmentation of Democracy” (Jan 14) argued that “USA under President Trump is on fast track towards authoritarianism” along the line of...

India’s 76th Republic Day anniversary (77th Republic Day) was celebrated in Guyana on January 26. Celebrations resonated with national fervour as local Guyanese Indians and those from India partook in...

In engagements with the Guyanese public and in reviewing media responses to the 2026 budget, overall, there has been a positive reaction to the largest record budget. Each segment or...

Dear Editor, Over the last five years, Guyana’s relationship with India has been further strengthened under the presidency of Dr Irfaan Ali who studied in India some two decades ago;...

The government announced last month that the construction of its Guyana Technical Training College Inc. (GTTCI) is now completed. I commend the government and ExxonMobil for launching this first ever...

Dear Editor, Comically ironic, perhaps, is there “Much ado about Nothing” in Shakespear’s play, drama or theatrics, “All’s well that ends Well?” In life, in order to attain the helm,...

Trinis in the diaspora are grateful and thankful to Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar that nationals of T&T are not included in a list of countries suspended from receiving immigrant...

The Trump Administration is pausing immigrant visa processing for all of Anglophone Caricom countries except Guyana and T&T; Dominican Republic and Suriname have also been exempted. Altogether, some 75 countries...