Editorial

Last week, November 7 and 8, Bogota, Colombia hosted the first ever Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children, an initiative of the governments of Colombia and Sweden in partnership with the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General on ending violence against children.

One of the enduring problems one encounters in the daily exercise of surviving in our society is figuring out the ever fluctuating blurred lines.

The October 25 issue of the Stabroek News published a letter written by the Guyana Trades Union Congress’ (GTUC) General Secretary, Lincoln Lewis, following his meeting with the labour movement, the substance of which had to do with the idea of utilizing a section of the Critchlow Labour College’s campus to provide a limited market facility for a  number of vendors and would-be vendors whose trading pursuits were being affected by the encumbering nature of street vending.

All over the city, surveillance cameras are being installed atop poles.

There is no shortage of speculation about what Mr Trump’s second stint as president might entail for this or that region of the world.

Homelessness is a pervasive issue that affects cities globally, with varying approaches to managing it.

With the price for gold on the international market around US$2,668 per ounce, the attraction for licit and illicit mining in the interior remains high and accompanied by all of the usual depredations: deforestation, reckless use of mercury and the pollution of rivers among others. 

Earlier this week, the Department of Public Information (DPI) informed us that the lack of progress on the construction of the state-of-the-art maternal and paediatric hospital on the lower East Coast Demerara and the news that it was unlikely to be completed before the last quarter of next year had vexed President Irfaan Ali.

On Sunday, the University of Guyana (UG), in keeping with its tradition of conferring honorary degrees on outstanding individuals, announced the names of recipients of honorary doctorates for this year’s convocation exercises.

To state that the image of the Guyana Police Force has descended to worrisome depths – which we may not have thought conceivable even a few years ago – is to indulge in considerable understatement.

Apart from the perplexing and injurious unwillingness of the PPP/C Government to bring ExxonMobil and company back to the negotiating table to staunch the haemorrhaging of money due to Guyana and its people, it is also failing on accountability for the auditing of the massive expenses claimed by the Stabroek Block venturers.

Every few years or so some campaign emerges to restore the zoo and surrounding areas of the Botanical Gardens.

Georgetown, once a shining example of vibrant culture and community spirit, now confronts a challenging reality.

Two weeks after a troubling incident at the St Joseph High School where two boys were attacked by older students in a toilet, the Ministry of Education is still to offer some assurance to the public that it has handled this matter to the satisfaction of the aggrieved and that the incident and the manner in which it was reported to have been treated are not widely prevalent across the education system.

Despite decades of advocacy and awareness, the scourge that is intimate partner (domestic) violence continues to overshadow the strides being made toward gender equity.

Once again, the competence of the current administration of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) is being called into question.

Much of the reason why the recent St. Joseph High School ‘toilet’ episode has not, relatively speaking, been made much of in the public domain, has to do with the fact that, these days, worse things happen at sea (so to speak) as far as irregularities in the education sector are concerned, so much so, that the reported (St.

On Thursday, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Calvin Brutus appeared in court with three others to face a series of charges and was placed on $9.1m bail, according to the GPF.

The BRICS summit hosted by President Vladimir Putin which was held in Kazan, Russia, concluded on Thursday.

As congestion increasingly chokes urban centres globally  including those in Guyana, the instinct to widen roads or construct new ones may seem like a straightforward solution.