Daily Archives: 01/13/2022

GUYANA: World Bank predicts massive economic growth for 2022

01/13/2022 – 10:33 am
Guyana is the only country in the Latin America and Caribbean region that is likely to see double-digit economic growth this year (Girendra Persaud photo)
Georgetown.  Guyana

–- says regional forecast weaker without this nation’s input

— Guyana is the only country in the Latin America and Caribbean region that is likely to see double-digit economic growth this year

AT a time when the global economy is plagued with myriad uncertainties, Guyana remains one of the fastest growing nations in the world, with an economy that is projected to expand by a massive 49.7 per cent this year, according to the latest edition of the World Bank’s “Global Economic Prospects”.

The report, issued on January 11, 2022, indicates a significant improvement from the one released in June 2021, which estimated Guyana’s growth at a mere 23.7 per cent.          Continue reading →

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UK: ANOTHER COUNTRY – By Alexandra Hall Hall | Byline Times

01/13/2022 – 12:12 am
Not the One I Represented as a Diplomat for 30 Years

Alexandra Hall Hall | Byline Times

Alexandra Hall Hall, who resigned from the Foreign Office over Brexit lies, now thinks the British malaise is much deeper than that or Boris Johnson

It has often been said that British diplomats are insufficiently representative of the country we are there to serve. BUT PERHAPS THERE IS A REVERSE PROBLEM: The country we are representing isn’t actually the one we believed it to be in the first place. 

The nagging feeling that the UK was perhaps not the bastion of democracy, human rights and good governance that it had always claimed to be had been creeping up on me for a while. However, it was easy to push the thoughts aside as long as I kept busy representing our country overseas.      Continue reading →
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U.S.A.: Filibuster: the 10-letter dirty word Democrats hope to clean up – By Mohamed Hamaludin

01/13/2022 – 12:03 am

By MOHAMED HAMALUDIN

The Democratic Party controls the White House, the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives and yet cannot pass critical voting rights reform legislation because fellow travelers Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Krysten Sinema of Arizona, regarded as “moderates” in a party which has turned increasingly progressive, wield unofficial veto power through a political quirk.

The Senate is evenly divided but Democrats have a slim majority because the Vice President is also the Senate president with one vote, giving them a 51-50 majority. That should be enough for them to pass legislation not just in the House, where they have a majority, but also in the Senate, except for something called the filibuster. The word originated from the Dutch “vrijbuiter” or “freebooter” but came to mean “obstructing progress in a legislative assembly” or “political stonewalling,” Wikileaks notes.      Continue reading →

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