Editorial

On Wednesday the Ministry of Natural Resources invited the media to an event at the Marriott Hotel where US oil company ExxonMobil was to brief Government of Guyana officials on the latest developments in the commercialising of the country’s offshore oil riches.

So Georgetown has struck back. Or more properly speaking, Georgetown and its environs have struck back by boycotting City Hall’s parking meters.

The chaos produced by the Trump immigration ban offers a glimpse of the disruptions that American institutions should expect in the near future.

The day before yesterday, Town Clerk Royston King held a meeting in City Hall’s chambers with wash-bay operators, during which he announced that those located in Queenstown would no longer be permitted to operate and that they had two weeks in which to cease work.

As usual, during the rainy season many of our streets become difficult to traverse.

The government recently announced the imminent passage of the SARA (State Asset Recovery Agency) Bill through Parliament.

The signing into law by President Barack Obama of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) in 2010 was intended to do more than send a message to Americans that the country was raising its game as far as its food safety standards were concerned.

Saturday’s election of Raphael Trotman as Leader of the AFC – one of the two main components of the governing coalition – will be seen as a major upset and a blow to the incumbent – Khemraj Ramjattan who had been going for a third term.

It was Mr Ralph Ramkarran who in an uncompromising column published in this newspaper last week, drew the public’s attention to what he called the Guyana Chronicle’s “obscene calumny” against Chancellor of the Judiciary (ag) Carl Singh.

This week as the Trump administration began to deliver on its promises to overturn settled practices in Washington, it was hard to decide which of its proposed changes was the most disruptive.

Despite being on the front burner in terms of advocacy by social activists and the relevant government agencies, there seems to be no positive change in terms of the incidence of domestic violence across Guyana.

In any ordered state governed by laws, the procurement of justice is the role of the public prosecutor’s office.

The local sports news over the last few weeks has been dominated by reviews of the various disciplines of sport for the year of 2016, and the announcements of dates for the holding of AGMs of the controlling bodies of the respective sports. 

Aggrieved workers in Guyana faced with industrial relations disputes over conditions of service are rarely afforded the opportunity to secure the focused and structured attention of the media.

Political coalitions which succeed in unseating incumbents develop for any number of reasons and their acceding to office is particularly dependent on the mood of the populace at that point and the circumstances in the country as a whole.

Law and medicine were the two professions to which traditionally young Guyanese aspired, and things haven’t changed much, although nowadays more students appear to be attracted to law than to medicine for a variety of reasons.

Last June, in a speech that crystallized the new populist streak in modern politics, UK Independence party leader Nigel Farage chided Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for their weak grasp of the new reality.

Last September Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan wrote Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Green on the Mayor and City Council’s seeming lack of authority on municipality matters being managed by Town Clerk Royston King, emphasizing that “King was not supreme to the Council.”

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has crushed the dreams of a would-be recruit by telling him that he will not be eligible to become a member until after he removed a series of tattoos covering his left forearm and hand, a procedure he cannot afford at this juncture.

In 1974, Erno Rubik, a Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture, invented the Rubik cube, a three dimensional puzzle with six faces, each one a different colour.