'I was now afraid of my own shadow'
The question of what exactly happens in your brain during an anxiety attack can’t be answered fully yet, but scientists are beginning…
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Suffering in silence | Coping with anxiety disorder
For people with anxiety disorders, worry and fear are constant and overwhelming, and can be crippling.
An anxiety disorder is…
- | Commentary, Health
Blunting the impact and hard choices: Early lessons from China
Hard choices
Success in containing the virus comes at the price of slowing economic activity, no matter whether…
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Coronavirus Economic Planning: Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst
Similarly, countries hit by a sudden and unexpected public health emergency—as coronavirus is proving to be—can see their…
- | Business, Commentary
Limiting the economic fallout of the coronavirus
Video: What policies are needed to support the economy?
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Why the Guyanese people should reject the LBGTQ political agenda
The Caribbean CAUSE, a regional group consisting of individuals and groups from 16 Caribbean territories including Guyana note with concern…
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Jamaican Creole - More than mistress (linguistic side gyal) material
Frankly, it seems like Jamaican Creole is what I will call the linguistic 'side gyal' while English is 'wife material'. The…
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What Koffee's Grammy win teaches us about rejection
But who can really deny that Koffee is as addictive as her namesake, leaving even toddlers belting, "Toast! We nuh rise an boast!"…
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Crisis Communication Study: Iran catching up with jetliner crash
After three days of denial, the Iranian government and military eventually disclosed that they mistook the…
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Reduce inequality to create opportunity
Inequality of opportunity. Inequality across generations. Inequality between women and men. And, of course, inequality of income and wealth…
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In… 
EDITORIAL: Old Harbour must avoid the pitfalls of other towns
After all this locale, like many places in Jamaica, was once a thriving community for the Tainos before the arrival of Columbus and his…
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End legislative inertia and judicial activism around buggery
A consequence of repealing the buggery laws in these countries will be that the homosexual union will be regarded as being equivalent to the…
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The World Economy: Synchronized slowdown, precarious outlook
In the October World Economic Outlook, we are projecting a modest improvement in global growth to 3.4 percent in 2020, another downward…
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Global banks may grow more vulnerable to a dollar disruption
What happens if non-US banks suddenly find themselves short of dollars? That was the case during the global financial crisis of 2007-2008,…
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From stablecoins to central bank digital currencies
Our last blog introduced stablecoins—cryptographic tokens that can be easily exchanged, benefitting from minimal price volatility…
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