The problem with Guyana – and this applies to many developing countries – is that the things which really matter in terms of the definition of a country and its identity over an extended timeframe, have to compete for limited funding with what are deemed to be urgent needs.
In 1801, writing to John Dickinson, a fellow founding father, Thomas Jefferson advised his colleague that “if we do not learn to sacrifice small differences of opinion, we can never act together.
Guyana’s unique geographical location on the North Atlantic coast of the South American continent has many benefits including being accessible to water transportation such as cargo, luxury and other vessels.
November 26, last year was the last time the major garbage removal contracting companies withdrew their services from Georgetown, citing non-payment of huge outstanding sums of money and following a nauseating pattern that has unfolded for more than a decade.
While the rest of the world is still busy adjusting to the commencement of the New Year, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s largest technology convention kicked off last Sunday in Las Vegas, Nevada, with most of the world’s leading electronic giants holding press conferences to announce their latest innovations.
So it seems that we may be on the verge of a Code of Conduct for the minibus industry which, if it can be suitably crafted and effectively implemented (and those are big if’s) can go a far way in raising standards of public order and significantly improving customer service in one of the most important enterprises in the service sector.
After dispensing with the savings clauses and symbols of statehood, the Constitution of the Co-Operative Republic of Guyana gets down to the nub of its primacy.
Last week everyone’s attention was riveted on the consequences of the no-confidence vote and the scheduling of Parliament at a time when the government was expected to have resigned.
Fifty years ago, when Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended Harvard, the dean of the law school would meet with female students once a year.
In an age of growing e-commerce and increased internet-based communications, the local postal service, the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC), remains a vital institution serving communities across the country, no matter how small or remote.
It may be that the final figures will be tweaked a bit, but it is estimated that for Christmas 2018, shoppers in the United States spent roughly US$1 trillion, while those in the United Kingdom spent over £2 billion.
Venezuela, over the years, would have been monitoring closely both the exploratory work by ExxonMobil in its search for what, as it turns out, is Guyana’s huge reservoir of oil reserves, the various oil finds that have been realised since around May 2015 and now the unfolding plans for the start of the oil recovery exercises which are imminent and which can transform Guyana’s economic fortunes in the period ahead.
As the year comes to a tumultuous end, it is now up to President Granger to show leadership and to demonstrate that the country and constitutional governance will be put above all else – particularly the insular interests of APNU+AFC.
The course of changing government in Guyana never did run smooth, and true to form we now find ourselves in the middle of another political transition muddle, this time of a possible legal variety.
As this year draws to a close, America’s volatile stock market seems a fitting image for our likely future.
This is the time of the year when giving is at its peak.
With the fractured political climate that exists in Guyana, it becomes extremely important that common ground is actively pursued, concretised and expressed in the form of policies through the National Assembly.
There is little peace and good will in the political arena this season.
Friday’s vote in the National Assembly by APNU+AFC MP, Charrandas Persaud has triggered the fall of the government.
The sudden resignation of US defence secretary James Mattis is another depressing milestone in President Trump’s chaotic misrule.
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