Editorial

On Tuesday, as the Commission on the Status of Women began their 63rd session at the UN in New York, news broke that the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission had launched an investigation into the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) over whether it has been paying women less than men for doing the same work.

On Sunday diehard West Indian cricket fans were left with a bittersweet taste in their mouths following their team’s useless total of 71 in 13 overs in the final T20 match as England completed a 3 – 0 sweep of the shortest format of the game.

One of the difficulties with the term ‘the Public Service of Guyana’ reposes in the fact that its popular interpretation is  misleading in its narrowness insofar as it largely limits the institution to the traditional Ministries of Government administered at the top by functionaries titled Permanent Secretaries and (for no clearly defined reason arbitrarily excludes other state-run institutions which, in much the same manner as the aforementioned Ministries of Government, administer the affairs of the state and provide services to the people of Guyana as an agent of the state.

Following an investigation, the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) has confirmed that three young cancer patients succumbed after the improper administration of chemotherapy drugs.

The President has virtuoso skills when it comes to issuing soothing, anodyne statements which, on their face, appear to be well advised and equitable, but which in reality mask undeclared intentions.

The US Congress recently passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry and intolerance.

In the United States of America (USA), the term “vehicular homicide” is used to describe the criminally negligent or murderous operation of a motor vehicle which results in the death of someone other than the driver of the said vehicle.

Tomorrow, Guyana joins the rest of the world in observing International Women’s Day under the theme promulgated by UN Women – the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women – “Think equal, build smart, innovate for change”.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Government has been rocked to the core over the last week by the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Government, finally, appears to have come to terms with the reality of the wholly untenable nature of the relationship between itself and the Russian management of the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

From his recent correspondence with Justice (Rtd) James Patterson, Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), President Granger has made it seem as if he always recognised the constitutional stipulation for general elections to be held within three months of the motion of no confidence which was passed against his government on December 21,  2018. 

A new layer of complication has been introduced into Guyana’s already Byzantine politics.

In September 2016, as the most anti-intellectual political campaign in modern American history neared its end, a surprisingly highbrow defence of Trumpism appeared in the Claremont Review of Books.

Guyana has been besieged by a high level of domestic violence within families for some time now, and analysts might argue that domestic violence has long since assumed crisis proportions.

On its website’s homepage, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) proudly displays what it terms a ‘new GuySuCo’.

The 91st Academy Awards which were presented last Sunday has stirred the usual heated debates over ‘who won and who should have won’ in the respective categories, the most heated of which has centred on the winner in the Best Film category, The Green Book.

The statement of Sunday, February 24th by the Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union (GB&GWU) addresses once again the unceasing contempt of the Russian managers of BCGI as much for Guyana as a sovereign state as for the country’s industrial relations laws, not least those that have to do with the rights of workers.

It is now clear to all and sundry that a firm alliance has been established between the APNU+AFC government and the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to thwart the constitutional stipulation that general elections be held within three months of the December 21, 2018 motion of no confidence or if necessary in an enlarged timeframe agreed by two-thirds of the National Assembly.

Guyana’s politicians have failed us. Operating behind the barrier of our two major political cartels, they are answerable to their parties first and foremost, and not to the voters or even, in a more profound sense, to the best interests of the country.

In January 2013, after nearly seven years of silence on the bench, US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made a joke.