Editorial

On Monday last around 6 pm accused offenders housed at the Juvenile Detention Centre in Sophia, Georgetown, somehow managed to set a mattress on fire, which resulted in minor injury—from smoke inhalation—to three inmates of the facility.

Last weekend, 3rd/4th June, the South American Under 20 Track and Field Champion-ships were hosted by Guyana at the National Track and Field Centre at Leonora, West Coast Demerara.

It would be churlish, to say the least, to deny the Occupational Safety and Health Unit (OSHU) of the Ministry of Social Protection whatever credit it might have earned for improving the quality of its service.

The arrests of 20 persons two weekends ago in the Region Eight village of  Chenapau and the subsequent decision not to have charges pursued against them exposes the clumsiness and disorder in the government, not dissimilar to what preceded it.

On Friday President David Granger rejected the Leader of the Opposition’s nominees for the post of Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom).

In the book Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth the environmentalist Mark Hertsgaard states that: “humanity has two options for containing temperature rise.

It would be safe to say, given the low population of Guyana, that domestic violence has become a major scourge of this nation, contributing, along with suicide and wanton criminality to a loss of ethos.

In April, the Stabroek News Business section had reported on a glut in greens and vegetables on the local market.

Tomorrow, Thursday, June 1, the eighth edition of the ICC Champions Trophy begins in London, England with Bangladesh taking on the hosts at the Oval.

A recurring theme in the broader political criticism of the Burnham and Hoyte administrations by the then opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) had to do with what the PPP felt was the high cost to the nation of financing the diplomatic service as it related to frequent travel, salaries and allowances in addition to the residential costs of keeping a number of diplomats at post in foreign counties.

Some of the procurement bloopers presided over by the current administration just couldn’t be made up.

This government has done some strange things since coming into office, but there can be few more bizarre than its most recent proposal to put to referendum whether or not a minority group should continue to be discriminated against in law.

This week in Israel, President Trump told  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a roomful of Israelis that, “As you know, Rex, the Secretary of State, has done an incredible job, we just got back from the Middle East …” Most of the room was too tactful to express their surprise at the statement, but in a moment of exasperation, Israel’s ambassador to the United States covered his face with his right hand.

At the inaugural Municipal Conference 2017, held recently, President David Granger challenged Mayors of the nine local municipalities to transform their municipalities into “commercial hubs”,  putting into sharp focus the lack of sustainable development planning that has plagued literally all municipalities in Guyana over the years.

Among the wars raging in the world the latest is the war on sugar.

The gold mining sector is fraught with challenges, complexities and complications.

On March 18, 2016, the APNU+AFC government delivered on its pledge to convene local government elections which had not been held since 1994.

From the photographs which have been published in the press, the Kato Secondary School in Region 8 appears an unprepossessing enough edifice.

In 1978 the writer John McPhee began a series of journeys across the United States to inspect rock formations along the 40th parallel, and to meet the geologists who examined and interpreted them.

Mention the phrase “consumer protection” in Guyana, and the name ‘Eileen Cox’ must immediately come to mind as her name had, over the years, become almost synonymous with the concept.