Editorial

Followers of local cricket are shaking their heads in disbelief once again, as the local ruling body, the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), has conjured yet another Machiavellian manoeuvre. 

The last thing that this editorial wants to be seen to be doing is making a judgement call on a sensitive administrative decision made by the Guyana Police Force in circumstances where we may not have in our possession all of the requisite rationale (beyond that which has been publicly stated by the Acting Commissioner of Police) for the action though, taking account of the context and what we know, we have opted to make use of our right to comment on the particular issue.

In its column in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek, Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) addressed the country’s ranking in the most recent report of Transparency International on corruption perceptions and considered the various factors which could have given rise to the improved score. 

Speaking on Monday at the opening of the 21st Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) in The Bahamas, CARICOM Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque implored the ministers gathered to speak with one voice to maximize benefits for the region.

President Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal is a characteristic act of petulance and one that is inexplicable except as a rebuke to his predecessor.

When Paul Arjune, a father of eight, appeared before a city magistrate charged with escaping from police custody his explanation was as simple as it was profound: “I escape out of frustration,” was his telling retort.

In April last year, South African scientist Professor Tim Noakes was found not guilty of misconduct, by the Health Professions Council of South Africa, following a hearing after a report made against him in 2014 by then president of the Association for Dietetics in South Africa, Claire Julsing-Strydom for advising a mother on Twitter to wean her child onto low-carb, high-fat foods.

In the sports section of last Sunday’s edition, this newspaper broke a story that the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) was asking Under-15 and Under-17 players to sign contracts with long term implications for their future earnings from the game of cricket.

Few things can be more inspiring for our struggling education system than teachers, mostly females, (these days it appears that males run a proverbial mile to avoid teaching) fending off their less than appealing conditions of service, and presenting themselves, day after day, fully prepared to draw a line under the frustrations of the previous day and to simply soldier on. 

Governing coalition partners, APNU and the AFC are scheduled to meet today to discuss a revision of their ground-breaking Cummingsburg Accord that seeded their win at the 2015 general elections.

On April 27th, 2018 off the coast of Suriname, there was an attack by pirates on four fishing boats manned  by Guyanese most of whom were living in Suriname.

In a memorable passage, Emerson observes that:  “An institution is the lengthened shadow of a man … and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.”

It would be a very useful study indeed to research the amount of time the average person in Guyana spends standing in line to access goods and services.

On Monday last, residents of some villages along the lower East Coast Demerara were exhorted to reclaim their communities through the use of the ballot box at this year’s Local Government Elections.

It is a long wait for fans of America’s National Football League (NFL) between the end of one season, the Super Bowl in early February, and the start of the next season at the beginning of September.

In the strictest sense of the word, last week’s revelation that a “massive racket” relating to what would appear to be a thriving trade in the rigging of driving test results by corrupt functionaries inside the Guyana Police Force (GPF) is hardly news.

Considering the bewildering array of criminal behaviour in cyberspace – in particular the purveying of child pornography and human trafficking –the advancing of a draft law on these matters and the compromising of computer systems is welcome.

In November 2015, a few months after the present government took office, Road Safety Month was launched at which none other than the President of the Co-operative Republic gave the inaugural address.

Six days after Alek Minassian used a rented van to kill 10 people seriously injuring 15 others, Toronto is returning to normal.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) marks April 28 globally as Occupational Safety & Health (OSH) day, promoting the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases.