Editorial

Anyone who listened to or read of the press conference held last Monday by the Mayor of Georgetown, Patricia Chase-Green on the visit of her team to Mexico in connection with the parking meters project would instantly come away with the view that the city is a hotbed for  machinations more associated with some medieval enclave rather than a municipality born of democratic elections and aspiring to transparent, open and accountable governance.

Exactly how a people could vote in favour of inflicting damage on themselves must seem perplexing at first glance.

One way to make sense of Britain’s decision to quit Europe is to gaze across the Atlantic.

During the previous administration of the PPP/C, many commentators described the political status quo in Guyana as a zero sum game.

In September last year, residents of Diamond Housing Scheme and some surrounding communities saw water cease to flow through their taps.

Tomorrow, the electorate of the United Kingdom votes on the issue of whether to remain or leave the European Union (EU).

The Brickdam Secondary School brouhaha is one of those irritating distractions inflicted upon us from time to time, but which invariably could be minimized through the application of good sense.

The announcement on Friday that Indian company Fedders Lloyd had been prohibited from participating in the proposed construction of the Specialty Hospital is a lesson about rectitude in public procurement, one that the APNU+AFC government failed to heed just months into its administration.

Last week the Big Four from the city council went to Mexico. 

A week after a lone gunman perpetrated the worst mass shooting in US history, the politics of America’s gun control debate remain baffling.

Historically, the world has always seen high rates of youth unemployment.

Last Friday, teachers of the Brickdam Secondary School staged a sit-out in protest over the deplorable condition of the building they were occupying, and on Tuesday, less than a week later, the Ministry of Education arbitrarily closed the school, scattering its teachers and students to other schools in the city.

It is most likely that Dr Kenny Anthony and his St Lucia Labour Party (SLP) went into the campaign for St Lucia’s general elections, held last week, with a perception that there was little to offer the electorate.

The findings of the recent audits of the various state agencies provide some disturbing insights into the manner in which aspects of the state’s resources were being managed under the previous political administration.

Friday’s release of the disturbing findings of the forensic audit into the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) coincided with the deepening of floods in Mahaica-Berbice as a result of heavy rainfall in the Mahaicony watershed and on the coast.

The Prison Disturbances and Subsequent Deaths Commission of Inquiry Report has at least established the sequence of events for what happened in the Georgetown Prison on March 3 and the days immediately preceding and following that date.

A generation ago, President George H W Bush famously dismissed “the vision thing” when asked to consider the larger aims of his presidency.

The funeral takes place today of the former, three-time world heavyweight champion, Muhammad Ali, the self-proclaimed and for many, ‘The Greatest of all Time’, in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.

An announcement by the Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awareness (CADVA) group last week that it has begun working with the surviving children of domestic homicide is laudable and worthy of emulation.

Cuba hosted the Seventh meeting of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) last week, in the current wider ideological atmosphere of the effort of normalization of Cuba-United States relations that has been welcomed by the wider hemisphere.