Editorial

Earlier this week President Trump’s former lawyer pleaded guilty to giving false statements to congress about his client’s ties to Russia.

It is now an all too familiar dance: The City of Georgetown employs waste disposal firms to collect the City’s garbage, the City winds up owing enormous sums to these firms, who then switch partners and call on Central Government to join the dance, and after being sufficiently appeased by government payments, these firms return to the welcoming arms of the City Council.

Pick a day. Any day. And then check the global statistics; you will find that more than 100 women were murdered by their husbands, partners or family members.

Last week six boys attending a very prominent all-boys private school in downtown Toronto were arrested and charged over a hazing incident which had taken place within the confines of the school.

On Thursday October 25th, close to two months after being named as the country’s Police Commissioner, Mr.

The disclosure that ExxonMobil’s Final Investment Decision (FID) for its Liza Phase-2 well has been delayed to enable a careful examination by the government of its Field Development Plan (FDP) is a welcome development.

There were three distinct markers about the 2018 local government elections that poll watchers and analysts will be mulling.

Last month the United Nations estimated that up to 13 million people could starve in Yemen if the Saudi-led coalition prolongs the country’s civil war.

With the coming on-stream of the Anti-Money Laundering & Countering the Financing of Terrorism  (AML/CFT) Act, day to day banking has become an increasingly complex and time consuming affair for regular customers in Guyana.

As recent as April and June this year, three Guyanese were arrested at the John F Kennedy Airport in New York with a total of 34 live finches that they were smuggling into the United States to later sell for lucrative sums of money.

The ICC Women’s T20 World Cup currently being hosted by the West Indies has reached the semi-final stage with the two matches scheduled for tomorrow in Antigua.

Early in October an unsigned letter purportedly authored by “Members of the Parent/Teacher Association” of a named state secondary school (since the letter was unsigned we have no way of vouching for its authenticity or otherwise) and addressed to Education Minister Nicolette Henry (and copied to three other Ministers) surfaced, ostensibly complaining about a host of irregularities at the school.

As disruptive as it can be, the motion of no-confidence in the government lodged at Parliament by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is well within the bailiwick of the adversarial form of Westminster governance that has been the country’s lot for more than half of a century of independence.

At the time of writing, the full results of the local government elections had not been declared; there were, it is true, quite a number which had been, primary among which was Georgetown.

This week, as the British government stumbled towards a ruinously expensive divorce from Europe and the growing likelihood of another political crisis, Facebook’s senior management drew criticism for its negligent oversight of user information and a laissez faire policy that allowed political groups to misuse that data.

When fire-fighters who were among the first responders to the recent emergency landing of an airplane at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri were accused of stealing personal property of the passengers and crew, the condemnation was swift in coming from the Cabinet and the National Security Council.

It’s best said in French: plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose – the more things change, the more they stay the same – but no language can quite convey or dispel the disappointment that comes with the knowledge that this is indeed the case in the public health sector.

The relatively small city of Bradenton, (population 55,000), on the West Coast of Florida was recently the scene of significant developments in Guyana’s football.

Shortly after replacing the long-serving Jose Eduardo Dos Santos as President of Angola, the country’s new leader, João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço moved to reverse two of the most controversial decisions of his predecessor’s near four-decade rule.

While she acknowledged that Trinidad and Tobago was not an exemplar in oil and gas management,  Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar was nevertheless able to pitch her Thursday address to the manufacturers association  towards pivotal issues this country has to address.