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Earlier this month, the Ministry of Finance revealed to the press, some insights into the performance of the economy for 2017. To this end, Guyana recorded a deteriorated economic growth of 2.1% for 2017 when compared to the previous year.…

Among some of the ideas being promoted as ‘oil advice’ by some oil consultants and some others in the public discourses on oil, is that the government should borrow money now to pursue critical developmental projects for Guyana. The…

By Neil Marks When she was just 12, my mother was already entangled in a strange world of emotional pain and uncertainty. Her mother died suddenly, and when her father left on a business trip, her grandfather assumed guardianship and…

As was alluded to in last week’s “The Economy” column, in which the author indicated that a separate article shall be dedicated to advance in much greater depth – the far-reaching economic implications of the largest retrenchment in…

By Bibi Khatoon Over the years, it has not been easy for women to break barriers in the world of work –those who lived it would tell - and according to the 2017 Global Gender Gap report, significant gender inequality persists in the…

By Bibi Khatoon Ten years after gunmen stormed the Region Seven Town of Bartica and killed twelve persons, of one of the survivors, Raymond White, is no longer the man he used to be. Raymond, who is now 60-years-old, was shot four…

By Neil Marks You’d be forgiven if you thought there was a clarion call for supporters of the governing coalition at the National Park Friday night, blazing green and yellow motion lights and all, but, school teacher Onika Joseph put…

By Bibi Khatoon Althea Thomas was just 4-years-old when her life completely changed. It was one sunny afternoon in the village of Buxton, East Coast Demerara where she lived with her parents and seven siblings. During a recent…

By Neil Marks He was 21, a labourer, and she was 15, a stay at home worker or “domestic” in her father’s “cake” shop. The day after Christmas in 1942, they became Mr and Mrs Lorenzo Persaud. More than 75 years later, they are still…

Sovereign debt management can be defined as the process of establishing and executing a strategy for the management of the central government’s debt. Governments incur debt in order to raise the required amount of funding, achieve its risk…