Editorial

Child protection in Guyana continues to be weakened through bureaucratic negligence and misallocation of resources.

It is debatable whether the 2025 budget poverty reduction allocations are truly adequate to combat poverty levels, particularly in Guyana’s hinterland regions.

Last week, the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security announced that through its Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Policy Unit, it had recently launched a strategy to enhance police response to gender-based, or as it is now being called, family violence.

On Monday, 3rd February, Ken Corsbie, one of the most talented sons of our soil passed away at the age of 94.

If it would probably be precipitate for rational minds to raise a hue and cry out of the omission of the country’s bona fide opposition from the Flag Raising ceremony held at Parliament Buildings to mark the 55th Anniversary of the country’s attainment of Republican status the simple fact is that as far as this unpardonable occurrence is concerned the Government of Guyana does not possess a leg to stand on.

In his address on the occasion of Guyana’s 55th Anniversary as a Republic, President Ali waxed lyrical on Sunday morning about the great advancements throughout the country.

Guyanese will throng the streets today to celebrate Mashramani. They will be doing so in the context of a world in disorder and on a day marking the third year since the invasion of Ukraine.

There are many adjectives which can be used to describe one of the raging epidemics in Guyana by the name of “Incompetence”.

Traffic accidents in Guyana continue to claim and maim lives at an alarming rate, but beyond the immediate human cost, the economic repercussions are equally dire.

Among the stupendous changes US President Donald Trump has made so far in his second term in office are his moves to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement and the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Last week Monday, 10 February, Cricket West Indies (CWI) proudly released an extended statement under the caption,’ Cricket West Indies passes historic governance reform at Special Meeting of Shareholders.’

Guyana faces serious questions about how effectively asserted is its territorial sovereignty in the public arena.

Not unsurprisingly, the Minister of Parliamen-tary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira has mounted a defence of her government’s record against corruption in light of this year’s Trans-parency International (TI) report which again puts the country in an unflattering light.

While the government was inevitably aggravated by Transparency International’s recent Corruption Perceptions Index, it has to be observed that that report has been published in an entirely different international context from when the one last year was produced.

On January 27 and 29, 2025 Stabroek News published articles highlighting a presentation made by the Minister of Culture, Charles Ramson Jnr, in the National Assembly during the 2025 budget debate.

As Guyana stands at the threshold of transformation, our education system must evolve to meet the demands of a high-income economy.

Around 10:45 am on Wednesday last at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, a truck driven by a 28-year-old man crashed into a utility pole, hit a car and then smashed into a house, causing significant destruction.

Whenever the subject of parking in George-town is broached, one is loathe to enter into the discussion, since one suspects the initiator is trying to revive the ghost(s) of the 2016 parking meter fiasco and the subsequent US$100 million lawsuit (2021) against the Government of Guyana which it has been forced to fight whilst having to pay exorbitant legal fees billed in US dollars.

With, for reasons that remain unexplained, up to this time, a comprehensive report is still to be tendered to the people of the Caribbean regarding the pace of progress towards the enhancement of food security in the region  These days there is a great deal more chatter about the much discussed 25×2025 formula for reducing food imports from outside the region though, even now, the people of the region have been furnished with no information that provides anything resembling iron-clad information that 25×2025 is a ‘sure thing.

On February 4th, following a series of questions about real estate he might own in New York, the Chief Executive Officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) Sherwyn Greaves resigned abruptly.