Editorial

Normally when a union signs a pay deal with an employer the assumption is that the members of its executive all endorse the agreement.

On Monday, toshaos from around the country gathered at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, Liliendaal for the National Toshaos Council (NTC) Conference 2024, which ends tomorrow.

Last Sunday evening, the announcement of Dave Martins’ passing at home in Guyana spread across the modern day ‘Guyanese grapevine’ like a forest fire raging out of control.

There has probably never been a time in contemporary Guyana when either the state or the municipal authorities have not sought to ‘sell’ the populace some flimsy excuse for their failure to ‘deliver’ in one or another critical area of their responsibilities associated with the creation of an enhanced quality of service.

It must be considered a national scandal that on two separate occasions soldiers of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) have allegedly been caught red-handed ferrying large amounts of marijuana.

In his address at the opening of the recent Building Expo President Irfaan Ali extolled Silica City on the highway, which he called his “masterpiece.”  

In an August 11th letter brimful of nostalgia and social history, Claudius Prince outlined elements of the self-help housing scheme which had been pioneered under the Forbes Burnham administration in the 1970s and 80s and which resulted in several well-developed settlements.

Guyana and Georgetown in particular seem to be slowly sinking beneath a mountain of rubbish. 

The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (the 2024 Summer Olympics) in Paris officially ended on Sunday last and athletes, for the most part, can take a breather, celebrate having won medals, or simply having given of their best.

“Take warning, You better take warning, Take warning, You better do good…” Opening stanza from 1971 hit by Guyanese singer Eddie Hooper   In the July 2024 edition of her Caribbean Monthly Economic Report, Trinidad and Toba-go (T&T) Economist Marla Dukharan observed, “ … for the past 12 years (2011-2023), over US$25 billion has gone missing from our country.

Across political administrations in Guyana there have been persistent concerns about the physical conditions that obtain at our municipal markets which, to say the least, have from way back, been downright deplorable.

In a statement on August 7th, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) responded to a news item in the August 3rd edition of Stabroek News in which the Alliance For Change  (AFC) sought updates on an improved electoral system.

The week before last the Ministry of Natural Resources issued a press release on mining. 

In a letter to this newspaper on August 4th in response to the Stabroek News Editorial of August 2nd titled `The AG and the Judiciary’, Attorney General, Anil Nandlall SC made reference to the PPP/C’s record on free expression and lobbed various criticisms at this newspaper which should not go unanswered.

We are no strangers to riots in this country, but London apart, where street violence in the central areas particularly is anything but unknown, it is not a common occurrence in England as a whole.

Notwithstanding all of the efforts made to date and the progress achieved, and even if there were to be some miraculous advancement today, the world will not achieve gender parity for another 134 years.

The scattering of the mustard seeds of Guyanese and their descendants across the diaspora as a result of migration – both legal and illegal – has had many spin-off effects on our society.

It is not uncommon for political administrations to appoint official spokespersons, Ministers of Information or other differently titled officials, to take responsibility for the management of its information dissemination regime, providing official information on matters of national importance.

On Wednesday, members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of a supposed cybercrime probe during which they seized electronic devices, one of which was the property of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and others belonging to Foreign Service Officer, Sharmayne Balram.

The fourth anniversary of the accession of the PPP/C to office following a failed attempt by APNU +AFC to rig the 2020 election was marked two days ago.