The curtains have come down on the second AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF23) in Georgetown, Guyana. This two-day confluence, anchored under the theme ‘Creating a Shared Prosperous Future’, has heralded a new era of cooperation aimed at enhancing trade and investment avenues for nations across Africa and the Caribbean. Drawing from the communique, Permanent Secretary of Guyana’s Foreign Ministry, Elizabeth Harper read the group’s resolution. It highlighted an ardent call to global bodies like the African Union, CARICOM, and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States to fortify African-Caribbean

political relationships to propel economic alliances, bilateral trade, and the pivotal concept of establishing an…

The United Arts Club, located on Upper Fitzwilliam Street, is the venue for the event. The poet, writer, artist, and philosopher assisted in founding the club in 1907.

AE Russell, as he was also called, was a highly esteemed and renowned figure worldwide, and was considered a giant of Irish public life.

Despite spending the majority of his life in Dublin, he was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, in 1867.

When he passed away in England in 1935, Taoiseach Eamon De Valera and WB Yeats led his funeral procession, and he was given special treatment with an aerial flypast as his coffin was transported back to Ireland via Dún Laoghaire.

A bust of Russell may be found in Dublin’s Merrion Square, and a perfect duplicate can be found in the former Lurgan Town Hall.

For several years, an annual festival…