Editorial

Tomorrow the nation’s citizens go to the polls to vote for their local authorities.

Tuesday’s midterm elections in the United States may not have delivered the long-awaited “blue wave” against President Trump, but they did reveal America’s demographic and cultural fault lines with unusual clarity.

There is a single word that comes to mind when one considers the administration of our prison system – a system which benefits from the services of a Minister of Public Security, a Board of Management, and a Director of Prisons.

In less than a week, Guyanese will make their way to the polls to vote for the parties, men and women who will run their local authorities for the next term.

On the 23rd of October, the Caribbean lost one of its great musical icons, the calypsonian, The Mighty Shadow.

More than a week after the distressing occurrences that attended the St.

Following a question by Stabroek News, ExxonMobil has said it will not disclose its estimated cost of production for oil to be extracted from the Liza-1 well in 2020.

It is not often that a small society produces someone who leaves an institutional legacy of significance.

The International Day to End Impunity, which UNESCO commemorated yesterday, is a moment when human rights groups take stock of the violence and intimidation used to silence journalists around the world.

The Public Procurement Commission recently began a round of engagements with stakeholders in the construction industry outlining draft regulations that, if implemented, would see contractors in the industry being suspended or debarred if found guilty of doing shoddy work on Government contracts.

One of the reasons why life in Guyana remains perilous for women and girls has to do with the ignorance that still surrounds law enforcement and sadly officialdom as well.

Following the ball tampering incident involving the Australia team during a Test match in South Africa in March of this year, Cricket Australia (CA), the organization responsible for overseeing cricket in Australia, commissioned a cultural review of Australian cricket.

Long before last Saturday’s St. Joseph High School ‘Fair of the Year’ came to an inglorious end  on Sunday morning the available evidence had been pointing unerringly to the likelihood that it could descend into something ugly.

On Thursday, former President and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo disconcertingly stated his disaffection with the planned upgrading of copyright laws which was alluded to by President Granger in his recent address to Parliament.

Last week, Sunday columnist Ralph Ramkarran under the caption ‘Still time for constitutional reform’ put forward the view that the AFC was in a position to ensure that the coalition’s manifesto promise on constitutional reform was realized.

In 1958 President Eisenhower received a letter from a war veteran named Robert Biggs.

It has become distressingly obvious, as the 2020 oil production deadline draws inexorably closer, that the current administration has placed agriculture squarely on the back burner.

It is disgusting, unhealthy and beyond disappointing that the Public Health Ministry could in this day and age be storing anything in spaces that are unsuitable and less than scrupulously well maintained.

The dispatches from the Asian sub-continent of the current West Indies tour have not been good, in fact they have very depressing to say the least.

The announcement late last week that Cabinet had given the green light for the implementation of the clause in the Small Business Act that sets aside up to 20 per cent of state contracts for the provision of goods and services for small businesses, with effect from January next year, is good news, as much for ambitious small businesses seeking growth through the acquisition of bigger contracts as for job-creation since bigger contracts will, in some instances, give rise to the need for an expanded work force.