Editorial

In the fairy tale ‘’The Steadfast Tin Soldier’’ by Hans Christian Andersen, the central figures are a tin soldier – the last of a batch of 25 and made one-legged because the tin ran out – and a paper ballerina formed executing a pirouette, with one leg drawn up.

Last Friday, the United States Supreme Court ruled that US prosecutors had overreached their boundaries when they applied United States laws to groups of people, many of whom were foreign nationals, who allegedly defrauded FIFA, a foreign organisation based in Switzerland.

It was always inevitable that, at some stage, Banks DIH Ltd.,

Evidence that the PPP/C government operates clandestinely and without a clear policy on important matters can be seen in how it muddled its way from its Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Act in December 2021 to the egregious amendment to the principal act contained in the Fiscal Enactments (Amendment) Bill 2024 which was passed on Friday night.

The Guyana Teachers Union has called on teachers to strike from tomorrow unless there is a favourable response from the Ministry of Education and other relevant authorities to its proposals for salary increases and non-salary benefits.

To argue against this budget is like complaining about a spouse’s shopping list.

Some things never change, and so it is with the Integrity Commission.

By mid-year, all things considered, including the disposal of threatened legal action, New York will implement a congestion charge on nearly all vehicles entering Manhattan below 60th Street.

“You are no longer the same after experiencing art”- Milton  Glaser, designer of the iconic “I Love New York” logo On 23rd December last, Eric Anthony ‘Tony’ Phillips, another son of our soil, passed away in Australia, where he had migrated to in 1978.

It would have been pure theatre were it not so decidedly worrisome.

There aren’t enough superlatives to frame the courageous single-mindedness of Baracara’s and Guyana’s Shamar Joseph in leading the West Indies to this marvellous  victory over Australia in the wee hours of yesterday.

In October last year President Irfaan Ali decided to undermine talks which his government had previously been holding with the Guyana Teachers’ Union and meet the teachers himself to hear their complaints.

As a modern form of influence on the lives of individuals, social media platforms of the digital age make television, the previous generations’ vehicle for the cues of choice, appear almost sloth-like when it comes to creating new trends and fads, and pinpointing new avenues in fashion and lifestyles.

First the word came from President Irfaan Ali, and then it was repeated two weeks later by Finance Minister Ashni Singh during his Budget presentation.

As harbingers go, July 2023 certainly packed a wallop. Pegged as the hottest month ever recorded in history by global climate scientists, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius in some places, it is unfortunately not likely to be an anomaly and worse yet, will surely be surpassed in the future.

This year, 2024, there occurred a notable departure in the media’s approach to reporting on the budget presentation by Senior Minister in the Ministry of Finance Dr.

Among its Terms of Reference (TORs), the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the May 21th  fire at the Mahdia Secondary School female dormitory was asked to: inquire into and report on the events and circumstances leading up to and the cause of the inferno and to make such recommendations and observations deemed fit including measures and actions that the Commission may consider necessary and appropriate to prevent the recurrence of such tragedy.

In Part 58 of how the Cost of Living is affecting People published in this newspaper, Timehri Base Road resident Lillowtie Hurdial detailed her tribulations.

In the heady days of November 2020 when the government had only been in office a few months and President Irfaan Ali was seeking to steer the country in novel directions, he met his Suriname counterpart President Chandrikapersad Santokhi in Paramaribo.

Much has been written about income safety nets in the past eight years since Guyana was lucky enough to find out it was sitting on billions of barrels of oil and thus expecting revenues that can be deployed for the welfare of all its citizens.