DEAR EDITOR, Financial Advisor from the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), Roger Hernandez, stressed that passing the new Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) (Amendment) Bill is not good enough. It must be implemented! Laws passed without implementation and enforcement are useless, toothless and an exercise in wasted time. Guyana already […]
By Carlton Joseph For the past weeks I have tuned in to the unprecedented outpouring of praise for President Nelson Mandela. Unprecedented not because he is unworthy of the praise and goodwill but because of where this effusive praise was coming from. It was coming from the same people who supported the Apartheid system that […]
THE EDITOR: As we are about to celebrate our 47th year of independence, this reminded me of the good times and prosperity Guyanese enjoyed prior to 1962 but then the riots started. It was just a short 19 years later under Burnham’s Dictatorship, the World Bank I.M.F declared Guyana a bankrupt state as poor as […]
By Herman Silochan Bold red mural sign at Pearson International Airport arrival gate: “In the future, South-South trade will be the norm and not novelty.” This is put up by HSBC, or better known as The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, one of the world’s largest, and with the most extensive branch banking […]
By Herman Silochan Port of Spain, Trinidad: Arriving from ice cold Canada this week, it’s easy to forget how hot this part of the world can be; shorts, t-shirts and slippers rule daily wear. Islanders go about their business, oblivious to much of the outside world, except for their overseas families; even the Laventille […]
By Jean Hodgkinson The Amazon is caught between two destructive forces and their combined effects threaten to flip its ecosystems from forest to savannah -Carlos Rittl Brazil’s Amazon River “initially bore various names after its discovery in 1500,” relates the Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. The hemisphere’s mightiest river “was finally called Amazon after […]
Guyana on Friday dismissed calls by the United States (US) for the Caribbean to tell Cuba that it must address concerns about democracy, human rights and civil liberties. “I don’t know that there is a one-size-fits-all where democracy is concerned. I see that many of the countries have partners with other countries that don’t have […]
By Jean Hodgkinson Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance –Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Two types of madness run rampant in this world. The first drives people to persecute, maim, kill, bomb, bankrupt or falsely imprison their fellow human beings. The other drives them to do things like Carnival. So for the next three weeks […]
It’s mission-critical to be plain-spoken, whether you’re trying to be best-of-breed at outside-the-box thinking or simply incentivizing colleagues to achieve a paradigm shift in core-performance value-adds. Leading-edge leveraging of your plain-English skill set will ensure that your actionable items synergize future-proof assets with your global-knowledge repository. Did that paragraph make you cringe in horror, as […]
By Herman Silochan One hundred and fifty years ago last week, January 1st to be exact, at the height of the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln declared the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in the opposing Confederate States. That was not an act of Congress, but a prerogative of his presidential powers of a nation at […]
